Jiddu Krishnamurti Meditation Quotes
- Observing is meditation, it is not that in order to observe you
must meditate. To observe is one of the most, difficult things. To
observe a tree, for example, is very difficult, and that is because
you have ideas, images, about that tree, and these ideas - botanical
knowledge - prevent you from looking at that tree. To observe your
wife or your husband is even more difficult, again because you have
an image about your wife and she has an image about you, and the
relationship is between those two images. That is what is generally
called relationship, which is two sets of memories, images, having a
relationship. Just think of the absurdity of it - all relationship
as we generally know it, is dead.
To observe means actually to be aware of the interference of thought; to see how the image you have about the tree, about the person, about whatever it is, interferes with looking - observe that you forget what you are looking at, which is the tree, or the person; and see why thought interferes, why you have an image about that person.
- Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to
some imagined bliss. The meditative mind is seeing - watching,
listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion -
attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships
throughout the day. And at night, when the whole organism is at
rest, the meditative mind has no dreams for it has been awake all
day. It is only the indolent who have dreams; only the half-asleep
who need the intimation of their own states. But as the mind
watches, listens to the movement of life, the outer and the inner,
to such a mind comes a silence that is not put together by thought.
- When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you
walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy
- if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that
is part of meditation. So meditation can take place when you are
sitting in a bus or walking in the woods full of light and shadows,
or listening to the singing of birds or looking at the face of your
wife or child.
- Meditation is a process of understanding. Understanding is not a
result and it is not something you gain. It is a process of
self-discovery. That means meditation is an awareness of your whole
process of living. Meditation is a process of understanding, the
process of your whole being, not only a part of it, and that means
that you have to be aware of everything that you are doing. it is
not concentration. You take a picture and you focus your attention
on that.
- To understand what this self-centred activity is, one must obviously examine it, look at it, be aware of the entire process. If one can be aware of it, then there is the possibility of its dissolution; but to be aware of it requires a certain understanding, a certain intention to face the thing as it is and not to interpret, not to modify, not to condemn it.
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