Meditative Self-inquiry with Mukesh Gupta, July 3, 2024

Meditative Self-inquiry

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion

With Mukesh Gupta

 

Nine people were in attendance for this afternoon gathering at the lovely Gorge Park pavilion for a meeting sponsored by the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada and held at the Esquimalt location in Victoria, BC. Mukesh Gupta began the session with a period of silence after which he gave a brief introduction to the spirit of self-inquiry. He spoke of the facing of existential questions in a context of quiet minds and a compassionate togetherness. If possible, we must listen to each other – and to ourselves – with great attention where the “Me” is not dominating our awareness and we are not attached to ideas of what is true or what conclusions we may reach.

Mukesh gave a short reading from the July 4 selection in The Book of Life which turned out to mention the subject of happiness and the idea of getting what we want. Mukesh probed us about our own deep questions regarding happiness and a number of participants spoke of the difference between a state of Being and one of becoming. There were questions about how we can attain an experience of Being: can we just feel it directly within ourselves?

We explored the possibility of boredom, which can result from being quiet and entering a state of “emptiness”. Is there an insight or “seeing” which brings a central understanding about our seeking of happiness inside or outside ourselves. Does an insight come from our thinking process and is thought the source of our understanding?

As we came to an end of our dialogue, we spoke of the importance of looking carefully into the “I” we take ourselves to be and the problems such a sense of identity can create. We came to the point that the “I” must be questioned and perhaps exposed as a false identity. It was an interesting and revealing way to end our session

DB