Jiddu Krishnamurti Meditation Quotes
- The first thing to realise in meditation is that there is no
authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to
observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no
obedience.
- Who is the controller to control thought? The controller is
another part of thought, isn't it? One part of thought says, 'I am
the witness, I am going to control my thought.' The controller is
the controlled. In meditation there is no controller, there is no
activity of will, which is desire. Then, the brain, the whole
movement of the brain - apart from its own anxiety which has its own
rhythm - becomes utterly quiet, silent. It is not the silence
cultivated by thought. It is the silence of intelligence, the
silence of supreme intelligence. In that silence comes that which is
not touched by thought, by endeavour, by effort. It is the way of
intelligence which is the way of compassion. Then that which is
sacred is everlasting. That is meditation. Such a life is religious
life. In that there is great beauty.
- When you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking
and action; but it can happen only when there is no condemnation.
When I condemn something, I do not understand it, and it is one way
of avoiding any kind of understanding. I think most of us do that
purposely; we condemn immediately and we think we have understood.
If we do not condemn but regard it, are aware of it, then the
content, the significance of that action begins to open up.
Experiment with this and you will see for yourself. Just be aware -
without any sense of justification - which may appear rather
negative but is not negative. On the contrary, it has the quality of
passivity which is direct action; and you will discover this, if you
experiment with it.
- Meditation is something other than concentration and control of
thought although, of course, concentration is necessary. Meditation
involves attention, which is not concentration, although
concentration is included in attention. To attend - that means to
give your whole mind, your heart and your body passionately to
something and in that attention, if you observe very carefully,
there is neither the thinker nor the thought, neither the observer
nor the observed, but only a state of attention; and to attend so
completely, so freely, there must be freedom. Here then is the whole
problem: it is only a mind which is totally free that can give
complete attention, that can attend both intellectually and
emotionally, aware of all its responses, from which comes freedom.
- Meditation is to be aware of the activities of the mind - the
mind as the mediator, how the mind divides itself as the mediator
and the meditation, how the mind divides itself as the thinker and
the thought, the thinker dominating thought, controlling thought,
shaping thought.
- Outward recognition of your wife, your children, your house or your neighbour is, of course necessary, but why should there be an interference of the past in the eyes, the mind and the heart? Doesn't it prevent you from seeing clearly? When you condemn or have an opinion about something, that opinion or prejudice distorts observation.
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