Krishnamurti Study Session March 17, 2018, at the Centre

Krishnamurti Study Session
Saturday, March 17, 2108

The chapter for study this session was Q & A # 26, “On the Old and the New” in The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. Three people were present for the meeting. The question posed to K was, “When I listen to you, all seems clear and new. At home, the old, dull restlessness asserts itself. What is wrong with me?” K responds by pointing out that the new is always being absorbed by the old, by the thinker. The challenge is how to free the mind from itself as the thinker, as the reservoir of memory which is the self. “Love is eternally new… it is a state of being.” K further suggests that “when each thought and feeling is thought out, concluded, there is an ending and there is space between that ending and the next thought. In that space there is renewal, the new creativeness takes place.” To be creative in this sense is to be happy.
The participants explored the material in the text in terms of their own understanding and insight, applying K’s pointers to their own life experience and clear seeing.