Self-inquiry, August 27, 2023
Self-inquiry
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada
Metchosin, BC
With Mukesh Gupta
Eleven people were present for Mukesh Gupta’s last meeting before his departure from Canada. He began the session in his usual manner with a short guided meditation and an introduction to what takes place in a self-inquiry meeting, the main intention of which is to understand ourselves. Mukesh pointed out that if self-understanding is not present the implications are immense. Self-understanding brings love, beauty, and a freshness into our lives and without it there is a gap in our experience of ourselves. These qualities must be rediscovered every day, beginning with simple sensations and exploring the deeper aspects of living a “conscious” life. Right understanding is when all faculties are in harmony. This involves a “dying” to the false ideas of ourselves, which must be seen by observation. The seeing is the transformation, the falling away of the false self. It is a life-long process which involves insight each day, each moment, as one opens to the exploration of the challenges and obstacles involved.
Mukesh encouraged participants to share some of the obstacles they had come upon. The first to speak suggested that his greatest obstacle has been “unconsciousness” in himself and others. In delving more deeply into the question, issues of emptiness and manifestation were looked at with a careful curiosity about the sense of separation and isolation that many feel and the illusion of such a deeply held belief. On the other hand, it was shared by some that coming together in a group such as this in order to witness the workings of our own minds and “hearts” was in this very moment producing an experience of Being which contains love and a sense of communion. People may speak as if they hold a kind of knowing about what they are speaking of but there seems to be more profundity and fullness to the truth of “not-knowing”!
In conclusion, Mukesh encouraged us to keep on learning and opening our hearts, awakening from moment to moment to the truth that Life is being in Love. He suggested we pay attention to whatever is taking us away from love and unity.
We have very much appreciated Mukesh’s presence and wisdom this year and we look forward to spending more time with him when he visits next year.
