Jiddu Krishnamurti Meditation Quotes
- Meditation is not following a system, it is not repetition, a
constant imitation; meditation is something that demands an
astonishingly alert mind, great sensitivity in which there is no
sense of bringing something about through demand, no illusion. So
one has to be free of all demands, therefore of all experience,
because the moment you demand, you will experience; and that
experience obviously will be according to your conditioning.
- In meditation there can be no thinker, which means that thought
must come to an end - the thought which is urged forward by the
desire to achieve a result. Meditation has nothing to do with
achieving a result. It is not a matter of breathing in a particular
way, or looking at your nose, or awakening the power to perform
certain tricks, or any of the rest of that immature nonsense. But if
you have been listening to these talks with total attention and have
more or less grasped the significance of what is being said, I think
you will find there is a state of mind which is always meditative.
Meditation is not something apart from life. When you are driving a
car or sitting in a bus, when you are chatting aimlessly, when you
are walking by yourself in a wood or watching a butterfly being
carried along by the wind - to be choicelessly aware of all that is
part of meditation.
- Man desires power. He has conquered the air, nature; he wants
power politically; he wants power spiritually; he wants power in his
relationship. And everybody is seeking power, which gives him a
certain status. And in meditation you do, the mind does acquire
certain powers, but they are to be totally avoided because then mind
or thought becomes a slave in the pursuit of those powers which give
ultimately pleasure: powers of thought-reading, producing miracles
and so on.
- Meditation is not the play of the mind nor of desire and
pleasure. All attempt to meditate is the very denial of it. Only be
aware of what you are thinking and doing and nothing else. The
seeing, the hearing, is the doing, without reward and punishment.
The skill in doing lies in the skill of seeing, hearing. Every form
of meditation leads inevitably to deception, to illusion, for desire
blinds.
- There is frustration, the constant struggle in life, the struggle between husband and wife, family worries; and you want to escape from all this and therefore you drink. Now the question is how can you stop drinking? Will mere analysis - the analysis of frustration, the analysis of your worries - free you from the habit of drinking? When you know why you have a frustration, when you are aware of it, then that awareness itself, without choice, will act, and the habit will cease.
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