Self Study Meeting, December 20, 2020

Self Study Meeting

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Zoom online

 

Fifteen people were in attendance for this online meeting on a Sunday morning. As has been the case for the past year, we focused on J. Krishnamurti’s teachings as found in The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. In this case the readings for study and discussion were the December 8 – 21 selections, which dealt mainly with the meaning of true religion and the approach to God. Krishnamurti asks some fundamental questions about the nature of belief and conceptual understanding versus the more authentic state of not knowing what God and love are. When we can honestly admit that we do not know the answers to fundamental questions about life, he says, we are in a state of humility in which real learning and discovery can take place. True religion is going beyond the “known”.

The participants entered into a keen exploration of the ideas presented by K, raising quite a number of deep questions and offering insights found through their own inquiry and meditation. As is often the case with this group, it seemed we could have continued the dialogue almost indefinitely. It was a satisfying session for the last one of the year.