Meditative Self Inquiry with Mukesh Gupta, July 18, 2020

Meditative Self Inquiry

With Mukesh Gupta

Zoom Online July 18, 2020

All included, nineteen people were present for this late afternoon Zoom meeting sponsored by the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada. The session was facilitated by Mukesh Gupta from Varanasi, India. Mukesh communicates the essence of J. Krishnamurti’s teachings in a clear and concise manner and responds to audience questions with a directness and understanding that seems to be very helpful. Between now and November, he will be offering a series of eight talks and dialogues exploring K’s teachings. The focus of this, the first of the eight sessions, was “Self-knowledge as a Door to Freedom”. Mukesh gave a talk with slides and then fielded questions. Some of the issues presented and discussed were the following:

– The unexamined life is not worth living

– What you are, the world is.

– What doe it mean to know oneself?

– Knowing or understanding anything brings freedom.

– How do I know myself? Is there any instrument for self-knowing other than thought?

– The “I” may be created by thought!

– We may not be in control.

– Is direct perception free of conditioning? What is its effect?

– The self is a reaction of thought. What happens if there is awareness of these reactions?

– Any deep question dropped into one’s consciousness will bring about silence, Examples of such questions: What am I? What is this “I” or “self”? Is there a self without the thinking process? Is there a self if there is no reaction to “what is”? What kind of existence does this non-reactive self have?

There were quite a variety of questions from the participants, who also expressed appreciation for Mukesh’s presence and the sponsorship by KECC.