Loving What Is with Kathryn Jefferies, Feb 21-23, 2025
Loving What Is
Online Workshop with Kathryn Jefferies
February 21-23, 2025
The intention of this workshop was to give participants direct experience of the non-conceptual mind through the process of self-inquiry, specifically The Work of Byron Katie. Kathryn framed the content with Krishnamurti’s directive to look deeply at why people behave as they do, and notice the tendency of the mind to instead assess the world. Kathryn invited the participants to become acquainted with “the one mind” by seeing for themselves the justifications the mind uses for its activities and the effects of judging (i.e. drawing conclusions about) the world.
“I think one should be aware of what is happening in the world, and not be depressed by it, or optimistic or pessimistic, but to observe impartially, dispassionately what is actually going on.”
“But we are always seeking answers for fundamental human disturbance in the outward symptoms by trying to deal with superficial symptoms without going very, very deeply into why human beings throughout the world are behaving as they are …”
“First we ought to look, I think, at the consciousness of mankind. Why this consciousness, which we are, why it has become what it is …”
Kathryn asked the participants to consider the possibility that their resistance to life isn’t needed, that life’s apparently negative occurrences are happening in support of their awakening to reality, in service of their freedom.
We looked at how resistance is necessary to avoid completely accepting how things are, and how this very resistance creates the illusion of the separate self by creating boundaries of identity. In inquiry, people could experience for themselves the effects of resistance on the physical self as well as the emotional-mental self.
Participants generated personal lists of what they believed was going wrong in their worlds and they were guided to notice if these were statements of fact or rather just interpretations, and therefore if they could open to the possibility that their initial perceptions could be just images generated by the mind — i.e. pure imagination — and that through thought they could never perceive accurately.
From there, working with a single thought, Kathryn invited participants to notice who they are without it, thereby removing the obstacle to experiencing themselves as pure awareness.
Kathryn Jefferies
inquirywithkath.com
