Self Study Meeting, February 7, 2021

Self Study Meeting

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Zoom online

 

Fourteen people in total attended this Sunday morning meeting online to explore their reading and contemplation of the first nine entries in The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti. Participants had prepared at home by reading and being present with the material taken from Krishnamurti’s talks and writings. The subject matter of these first entries was “Listening”, which also includes looking or observing with one’s total being. K says that such “listening” will bring about a transformation in us without any effort to change. This transformation will awaken a state of love and beauty. In these selections he goes into some detail about the process.

After a meditation guided by David inviting full presence and attention, participants were invited to share what had impacted them in the readings. There was plenty to be shared and discussed, always within a space of attention and inquiry. Challenges and difficulties were expressed as well as “successes” and insights provoked by the study of the January 1 – 9 “meditations”. Some people reported that as we explored they were aware of what others were saying, what Krishnamurti was speaking of, and what was going on in their inward experience. This seemed like an actual realization – at least to some degree – of what K calls “self-knowledge” and “the beginning of freedom.”