Jiddu Krishnamurti Meditation Quotes
- One has to be choicelessly attentive, fully aware; and this
state of choiceless attention is meditation.
- When there is the state of innocency, it is also the state of
meditation. You cannot come to that state of innocency as long as
you are ambitious, as long as your mind is petty, as long as you are
caught in the psychological structure of society and are nothing but
an embodied technique - which is what most of us are.
- Meditation is one of the greatest arts of life - perhaps the
greatest arts. Because in the understanding of meditation there is
love, and love is not the product of systems, of habits, of
following a method. Love cannot be cultivated by thought. Love can
perhaps come in to being when there is complete silence. And the
mind can only be silent when it understands the nature of its own
movement, as thought and feeling. And to understanding that, there
can be no condemnation in observing thought and feeling. To so
observe is discipline. Hence that kind of discipline is fluid, free,
not the discipline of conformity.
So meditation can take place when you are sitting in a 'bus, or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, of listening to the singing birds, or looking at the face of your wife or husband'. Meditation is not something apart; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation of life has ceased. And also there is contemplation, to contemplate life, not from a centre, not from your particular idiosyncrasy, tendency, or inclination, but to contemplate the whole movement of life: the misery, the conflict, the confusion, the sorrow, the endless travail of man - to watch that as a total movement. You cannot watch it if there is any form condemnation. Such contemplation is meditation. And you cannot contemplate or meditate if there is no silence.
- Praying, chanting, sitting in front of a picture, controlling
thought, is not meditation.
- When you are driving, meditation seems to come so naturally. You are aware of the countryside, the houses, the farmers in the field, the make of the passing car and the blue sky through the leaves. You are not even aware that meditation is going on, this meditation that began ages ago and would go on endlessly. Time isn't a factor in meditation, nor the word which is the meditator. There's no meditator in meditation. If there is, it is not meditation.
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