Studying Love

Krishnamurti Study Session Saturday, April 19, 2014 Nine people gathered to study the second half of chapter 10 in Freedom From the Known.   Some of the challenges posed by K in this segment are:  what it means to really care about our children or other human beings, seeing not with our minds but from “the very bottom of your heart” that our sorrow is self-created or created by thought, the importance of “passion without a motive” and of an “innocent mind”, as well as other equally significant issues.   In addition to exploring these issues, the group looked into the question of what, if anything, can be “done” in order to come upon the love which is not of time, not of the self.  Krishnamurti’s “negative” approach was discussed, whereby that in ourselves which is not love is clearly seen and discarded, leaving what remains as the “positive”, the direct knowing of the reality of love.   It was asked whether it is possible for us to know this love given that we are so strongly conditioned by society and habitual ways of thinking and feeling.  This produced some interesting dialogue and questioning of assumptions concerning such a possibility, including the possibility that we are convincing ourselves of the difficulty of any real knowing by our very ways of thinking about it.    There was a keen participation by all present.  These meetings do seem to be attracting a group of regular and serious inquirers.