Self-Inquiry with Henry Fischer, April 27, 2025

Self-Inquiry Meeting
On-site Dialogue with Henry Fischer
April 27, 2025

On Sunday fourteen participants gathered for a KECC dialogue at Swanwick.

After a period of silence, newcomers were introduced to dialogue as an all inclusive unfolding process that includes thoughts, emotions, feelings, perception, the senses and the subject which is being explored. The invitation is to see if observation naturally connects us and engages us in a passionate exploration of the unknown rather than an affirmation of what we already know.

The following Krishnamurti quote was read from the Book of Life (May 22). This is only an excerpt however the entire entry was read at the dialogue:

All thought is partial
You and I realize that we are conditioned… The fact is that we are conditioned, and that all thought to understand this conditioning will always be partial; therefore there is never a total comprehension, and only in total comprehension of the whole process of thinking is there freedom…

The facilitator asked if it was possible to see anything afresh without the past interfering. The group quickly challenged this pointing out that it may be an ideal but the actuality is that thought is limited and conditioned. Perhaps there was something fresh in considering what is normally taken as real to instead be the unfolding of thought. In this way, the past is new in that it is freshly occurring.

There were also questions about whether we are actually seeing or if instead we are living inside a kind of projection of memory which we take to be ourselves.

Is freedom possible as an actuality or is it just a projected ideal? What does it mean to see the truth of conditioning and yet not to be defined or limited by it? Is there a freedom from the known which is not idealized or imagined?

The group also looked at fear and whether fear was also a description, a movement away from what is.

Henry Fischer