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Krishnamurti Study Group Saturday, August 29, 2015 Four people gathered to study the last part of chapter 7, entitled “Effort”, in K’s book The First and Last Freedom.  The chapter deals with perhaps the most profound aspects of human consciousness that need to be understood clearly if any transformation is it take place.  K speaks of the deep sense of insecurity and the resistance to the sense of emptiness – or “the void” at the core of our experience.  He says we must live with this void without escaping it.  In understanding it he says we will find a peace and tranquillity in which there is creative living.  The participants had already looked deeply into these issues in themselves and therefore the discussion of what was read was able to take on a creative and  insightful quality that was much enjoyed by all. Inquiry Sunday Sunday, August 30, 2015 On Sunday a different group of four people came together in the morning to watch a video discussion between Adyashanti and Loch Kelly entitled “The Journey after Awakening”.  The two spoke about various issues and challenges that can arise even after someone has had a significant spiritual awakening.  The way the topic was explored was found by the group to be very relevant and interesting.  We stopped the video several times to explore and share regarding the material viewed and everyone felt the combination of the video and the group discussion was very helpful.  The acknowledgment of these aspects of the journey which may be unexpected and surprising can help to normalize our experience and neutralize ideas that something is going wrong in our process of unfoldment. On Sunday afternoon, yet a different group of four people watched and discussed a couple of Krishnamurti videos, plus a handout, on “Relationship”.  We looking into the image-making process that creates conflict in relationship and also forms the sense of being a separate, isolated individual cut off from the whole and therefore lonely and unhappy.  The belief in the reality of the separate self was said to be the essential cause of conflict in relationship, which is life.