Weekend Events at the K Centre

Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, April 2, 2016     Six people were present at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada in Metchosin to study Chapter 13 in The First and Last Freedom. The subject of the chapter was desire. K emphasizes the importance of understanding what desire is and whether it can be transformed. After some reading of the text we explored the nature of desire and why it might be a “problem” for us. Desire was looked at as identification with objects and experiences which are impermanent. There is inevitably suffering when we try to fix life in a pattern when in fact it is in constant movement. The difference between the activity of thought and the state of pure Being was explored in some depth, as was the issue of why desire can be so compelling. What is driving the movement of desire, the activity of attraction and aversion, with its resistance and anxiety? It was a good discussion and an opportunity to look at ourselves in the context of relationship. We will continue with Chapter 13 on April 23.