Self Study Meeting, August 2, 2020

Self Study Meeting

August 2, 2020

KECC Zoom online event

Eight of us from various parts of the world attended this Sunday morning meeting which followed up on Mukesh’s Saturday session on “Relationships”. Participants had read in advance relevant selections from The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti (March 1-19 entries) and were prepared to explore the subject in greater depth. In those entries, Krishnamurti speaks of how dependency and fear work together to create conflict in our relationships and our lives. He then asks if there is some factor even prior to dependency that is even more significant in our experience of conflict and suffering. Looking at these questions elicited some very interesting inquiry and discussion of the issue of “emptiness” in its “negative” and “positive” aspects. What are the consequences of our tendency to escape the sense of emptiness, and what happens when resistance to emptiness ends? Is that the doorway to peace and love, as Krishnamurti seems to suggest?

We explored the question of what our relationships have shown us about the workings of our human consciousness. Included in this was the place of images in our lives and relationships. The discussion was punctuated by periods of silence which seemed to be quite easy for us to relax into and enjoy.