Self-Inquiry, April 19, 2023

Self-Inquiry

April 19, 2023

With Jackie McInley

At Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion, Victoria, BC

 

Ten people were present for this dialogue meeting with Jackie McInley who is visiting the Krishnamurti Centre in Metchosin for the month of April. She is facilitating a good number of events, both online and in-person, in town and out in Metchosin. The lovely new facility at Gorge Park has been booked for group meetings in Victoria.

As she usually does, Jackie gave an informative presentation about the nature of dialogue and its foundation in questioning our conditioned beliefs and ideas. Krishnamurti has spoken and written at length about the suffering and conflict created by our attachment to accepted concepts and beliefs and this has inspired the practice of inquiring into the truth or falseness of them, both on our own and in a group format. Jackie launched us into a very interesting hour and a half of sharing what each of the participants finds most significant in K’s teachings and in their own self-exploration. It proved to be a very challenging and revealing process of looking as deeply as we could into the structures of our own thinking, the possibility of being free of them, and what that might imply as we live our daily lives. The issue of instability of the self was investigated quite exhaustively, along with numerous related aspects of our experience of daily life and the challenges of such. We explored what we understand by letting go of the known and entering into the “Unknown”. It was a group inquiry with a great attention to the details of our ways of responding to our relationships both in the room and beyond.

DB