Jiddu Krishnamurti Meditation Quotes
- In meditation, there is no control because the controller is the
controlled. In meditation there is no will because will is desire.
The essence of desire is will - 'I will meditate, I will practise
this day after day.' In meditation there is no effort at all because
there is no controller. Meditation implies awareness, awareness of
the earth, the beauty of the earth, the dead leaf, the dying dog, to
be aware of your environment; to be aware of your neighbour; to be
aware of the colours you carry, why you wear that colour and those
beads, to be aware of that. To be aware of the beauty of the wind
among the leaves, to be aware of your thoughts, your feelings, that
is, to be aware without choice - just to be aware. That heightens
your sensitivity - to observe diligently everything.
- When you say I will do something, do it, never forgetting what
you have said. Do not say something you don't mean. That is part of
meditation. That is, to be aware of your feelings, your condition.
your opinions, your judgments, and your beliefs so that in that
awareness there is no choice - just to be aware of the beauty of the
earth, the skies and the lovely waters. When you are so aware, then
there is attention; to attend not only to see the speaker but also
to what your wife is telling you or your husband is telling you or
your children are telling you, what the politicians are telling you
- their trickery, their search for power, position. When you so
profoundly attend, there is no centre as the 'me' to attend. That is
also meditation.
- We do not know how to look at a problem dispassionately. We are
not capable of it, unfortunately, because we want a result from the
problem, we want an answer, we are looking to an end; or we try to
translate the problem according to our pleasure or pain; or we have
an answer already on how to deal with the problem. Therefore we
approach a problem, which is always new, with the old pattern. The
challenge is always the new, but our response is always the old; and
our difficulty is to meet the challenge adequately, that is fully.
- Prayer, concentration, meditation, are entirely different things
and he who prays can never know what meditation is; neither he who
concentrates can ever know what meditation is. For meditation is
spontaneous and therefore it requires spontaneity and not a
regimented mind. Spontaneity comes into being when there is
awareness, awareness in which there is no condemnation, no judgment
and no identification. If you go deeper and deeper and let it flow
freely it becomes meditation, in which the thinker is the thought
and there is no division between the thinker and the thought.
- This total process of the mind is to be understood only through relationship - relationship with nature, with people, with our own projections, with everything about us. Life is nothing but relationship. Though we may attempt to isolate ourselves from relationship, we cannot exist without it. Though relationship is painful we cannot run away, by means of isolation, by becoming a hermit and so on.
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