Jiddu Krishnamurti Meditation Quotes
- Meditation is not something that you practise for an hour or ten
minutes and the rest of the day do your mischief. Meditation is the
whole of life and that is the beauty of meditation, it is not
something set aside, it covers and enters into all our activities
and to all our thoughts and feelings. So it is not something that
you practise or give attention to once a day or three times a day or
ten times a day and the rest of the day live a life that is shoddy,
neurotic, mischievous, violent.
- Most people who meditate follow various systems. Each one has
his own guru and he has laid down certain systems of meditation, and
you practise, repeat certain words over and over again and you call
that meditation. When you repeat over and over again, what is
happening to your brain? You become more and more dull. You become a
machine and you think that is meditation. You will go on doing it in
spite of what the speaker is saying. In enquiring what is
meditation, there can be no system, no effort. Effort means
conflict.
Can you be free of systems, practice, realizing the fact that your brain, your senses, become dull? Can you be free of systems? Can the mind, the brain, realize what it means to follow somebody, to obey what somebody else tells you to do because he calls himself a guru? All those things have destroyed the beauty of a religious mind. Meditation is none of these things, yoga included. Then what is meditation? You want experience. You are craving for some strange experience, so-called spiritual experience. You have enough of experiences in this world, of pain, anxiety, sorrow, and you say we want something more, greater experience. Experience has nothing whatsoever to do with meditation. To experience, there must be an experiencer, and if there is an experiencer, that experiencer is the continuity of past memories which is the self.
- The action of meditation is intelligence. Meditation is none of
those things you have been taught or experienced. The putting away
of what you have learnt or experienced is meditation. The freedom
from the experiencer is meditation. When there is no peace in
relationship, there is no peace in meditation; it is an escape into
illusion and fanciful dreams. It cannot be demonstrated or
described. You are no judge of peace. You will be aware of it, if it
is there, through the activities of your daily life, the order, the
virtue of your life.
- If while sitting quietly without any motive, or walking quietly
by yourself or with somebody, you watch the trees, the birds, the
rivers and the sunshine on the leaves, in that very watching you are
also watching yourself. You are not striving, not making tremendous
efforts to achieve something. Those who are committed to a certain
kind of meditation find it very hard to throw that off because the
mind is already conditioned; they have practised this thing for
several years and there they are stuck.
- The mind is always chattering, always pursuing one thought or another, one set of sensory responses after another set of responses. In order to stop that chattering you try to learn concentration, forcing the mind to stop chattering and so the conflict begins again. This is what you are doing; chattering, chattering, talking endlessly about nothing. Now, if you want to observe something, a tree, a flower, the lines of the mountains, you have to look, you have to be quiet. But you are not interested in the mountains, or the beauty of the hills and the valleys and the waters; you want to get somewhere, achieve something, spiritually.
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