Krishnamurti Study Session, March 15, 2020

Krishnamurti Study Session
March 15, 2020
At KECC

This Sunday morning session was attended by a total of five people. The text for study was the February 9 entry in The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti entitled “What We Believe”. In this entry K questions the need for belief in the pursuit of self-knowledge. Is belief of any kind necessary in order to have a consistent drive and passion for self-exploration? Or is there some other energy that is not part of the mind’s projections about reality but comes from a deeper source?
After reading the passage and having some moments of silence, the participants shared their impressions of what K says, which then turned into a spontaneous inquiry into the habitual structures of the self and its attachments to the known and the security apparently offered by thought. The conversation was perhaps pushed by the very energy referred to by Krishnamurti that arises from beyond thought and wants to “know” the truth of ourselves and this life. It produced a sense in the participants of having entered a different space or dimension which was an expression of authenticity of being and could perhaps even be called “love” or, less romantically, a sense of unity. All participants seemed to partake of the same feeling and realization.