Self Study Meeting, November 15, 2020

Self Study Meeting

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Zoom online

 

This Sunday morning meeting online was attended by 16 participants, all included. We continued with a question asked by Mukesh in his presentation a week previously: “Is There a Completely Different Way of Living?” The Self Study Meetings have been using The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti as an inspiration for our inquiry into the nature of ourselves. In this case participants had been asked to read carefully at least eight selections from the November entries and to bring observations and questions to the meeting for sharing and discussion. The entries quoted passages from Krishnamurti’s talks on the subjects of “Living, Dying, Rebirth, and Love” and seemed to blend well with Mukesh’s question.

After a guided meditation exploring awareness without naming or conceptualizing, we entered a group discussion of people’s experiences and insights during the meditation along with those that emerged from their readings of the text. A number of participants reported profound insights and the dialogue as a whole was quite deep and engaging. Such topics as the meaning of psychological death were explored with keen penetration, and appreciation was expressed for the opportunity to share such inquiry with others in this way.