Jiddu Krishnamurti Meditation Quotes
- Meditation not according to various groups that exist throughout
the world, but actual meditation is a state of mind which look;
regards, observes everything with complete attention; total not just
parts of it. Attention is not fragmentary, it is a total thing. And
no one can teach you how to be attentive. If an system teaches you
how to be attentive, then you are being attentive about that system
and that is not attention; nor attention concentration.
Concentration is exclusion. You can concentrate - it is an effort:
excluding, building a wall around yourself. But attention has no
wall, and such is meditation. That is what meditation is, when the
mind is completely silent.
- Meditation is an extraordinary state that demands no effort.
Most of us are conditioned to make effort. We struggle to achieve a
result, or to sustain a particular experience, or to gather
knowledge, all of which implies various forms of conflict; and
without understanding conflict, it is not possible for the mind to
be in that effortless state which is meditation.
- Meditation is not the achievement of any form of permanency, and
it is not prayer. Prayer implies supplication, begging, looking to
another for comfort, for psychological security. Meditation is not
contemplation. Contemplation implies putting the mind on something
and expecting, watching. There is a duality, the watcher and the
thing that is watched; so meditation is not contemplation, nor is it
the awakening of visions. Visions are merely the reaction, the
response of your background. If you are a devout Christian you may
see the Christ, and you will regard that as a great spiritual
experience, but it is nothing of the sort. It is a conditioned
experience, the projection of a most immature, unthoughtful mind.
Just as you see the Christ, so the Buddhist will see the Buddha, and
the Hindu his own particular deity. They are all projections of the
mind's conditioning, and one must be free from that conditioning,
and the freeing of the mind from its conditioning is part of
meditation.
- Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for
happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which
there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is
only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited.
- This process of substitution is wholly unintelligent. If you will observe you will find that mind is nothing but a mass of habits of thought and memories. By merely overcoming these habits by others, the mind still remains in prison, confused and suffering. It is only when we deeply comprehend the process of self-protective reactions, which become habits of thought, limiting all action, that there is a possibility of awakening intelligence, which alone can dissolve the conflict of opposites.
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