Krishnamurti Study Session, March 1, 2020

Krishnamurti Study Session
Sunday, March 1, 2020
At KECC

For the March 1 study session there were four in attendance. The text for study was The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. In David’s absence Laurie facilitated the group and sent in the following report.
“We read and discussed the February 7 entry, “When there is Love, Self is Not” and February 8, “Understanding What Is”.
We discussed what K meant by love, reality, truth, what is, and the many ways that the self is built through beliefs, knowledge, experiences, memory, etc. We questioned what it would be to have no belief and nowhere to escape or land, psychologically. Discussion also arose around why there is a self and its uses and function. Would this self be different in another time period or culture?
“There was a rich conversation around the freedom and relaxing that happens when we stay with what is, the fact of any moment without description or moving away from what’s here now. We dug into the meaning of acceptance. We also compared mankind to the ant colony metaphorically and relatively. And we had a discussion around the ways that we try to defend and protect ourselves and the result. We had a meditation before and after and discussed meditation.
“It was a rich study session.”