The Urgency of Change Dialogue Group Meeting, March 21, 2021

The Urgency of Change Dialogue Group

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Zoom online

For various reasons three of the regular group members were unable to attend the Sunday morning meeting online. There were ten of us present, which was enough for a lively discussion of the chapter in The Urgency of Change entitled “The Seeker”. Picking up where we had left off in our February meeting, we investigated some of the challenging questions raised in Krishnamurti’s inquiry with the “questioner” in the book. The first question we took up was about our capacity to receive “the immensity” of that which is beyond thought and beyond the seeking of the egoic consciousness. The exploration touched on the resistance of thought to silence and stillness, which Krishnamurti deems essential for self-discovery and which, he says, are far more important than our usual activities of thought. We cannot do anything to create love, but there is another kind of action which opens our “minds” to the beauty and immensity of that state or experience. What that “action” is and what are the obstacles thrown in by the thinking mind or “ego” were perhaps considered to be the most significant issues needing understanding or insight, and the energy directed towards such inquiry seemed to be of value and worth.

In the next meeting we will look at the chapter entitled “Organization” and explore the ways in which thought creates division. Perhaps we can get a sense of what it means to transcend such division with its inevitable conflict.