Tag:  Meditation

• we never see the world as a whole because we are so fragmented, we are so terribly limited, so petty August 22, 2009

  You see we never see the world as a whole because we are so fragmented, we are so terribly limited, so petty. And we never have this feeling of wholeness, you follow, where the things of the sea, t...

• We are watching, not waiting, not expecting anything to happen but watching without end. September 01, 2009

  Sitting on the shore watching the birds, the sky and hearing the distant sound of passing cars, it was a most beautiful morning. You went out with the ebb and came in with the tide. You went out fa...

• Demand is born out of duality. 'I am un- happy and I must be happy.' September 04, 2009

  To be free of demand and satisfaction necessitates investigation into oneself; it necessitates understanding the whole nature of demand. Demand is born out of duality. 'I am un- happy and I must b...

• Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; October 03, 2009

  If you set out to meditate it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower. If you cultivate humility, it ceases to be. Meditation is like the breeze that comes in ...

• Only in total freedom does bliss exist. October 06, 2009

  Happiness and pleasure you can buy in any market at a price. But bliss you cannot buy for yourself or for another. Happiness and pleasure are time-binding. Only in total freedom does bliss exist. P...

• Thought shattering itself against its own nothingness is the explosion of meditation. October 13, 2009

  Thought shattering itself against its own nothingness is the explosion of meditation. This meditation has its own movement, directionless and so is causeless. And in that room, in that peculiar sil...

• When you realize the truth that it is only the quiet mind that sees, then the mind becomes extraordinarily quiet. October 14, 2009

  When you realize that there is no method, no system, that no mantram, no teacher, nothing in the world that is going to help you to be quiet, when you realize the truth that it is only the quiet mi...

• Meditation is really very simple. We complicate it. We weave a web of ideas around it, what it is and what it is not. October 17, 2009

  THAT MORNING THE SEA was like a lake or an enormous river, without a ripple and so calm that you could see the reflections of the stars so early in the morning. The dawn had not yet come, and so th...

• If one does not know what meditation is, true meditation, I think one misses everything in life. October 28, 2009

  May I suggest that we talk this evening about the mind in meditation, which is a most complex and subtle problem. If one does not know what meditation is, true meditation, I think one misses everyt...

• What is meditation? Why should one meditate? To find that out, stop meditating. November 04, 2009

  What is meditation? Why should one meditate? To find that out, stop meditating. To find out what is real meditation, not yours or mine, your type and my type, or X's type, but what is meditation, t...

• What is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? November 12, 2009

  K: ...we are asking now, what is the relationship of attention to inattention, and to awareness? Right? They are all related. Why is the mind inattentive - not, can the mind be continuously attenti...

• The craving for experience is the beginning of illusion. November 16, 2009

  The craving for experience is the beginning of illusion. As you now realize, your visions were but the projections of your background, of your conditioning, and it is these projections that you ha...

• The earth and everything upon it became holy. November 17, 2009

  The earth and everything upon it became holy. It was not that the mind was aware of this peace as something outside of itself, something to be remembered and communicated, but there was a total ab...

• Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life. November 29, 2009

  Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life. The man who has progressed through being a sinner to being a saint has progressed from one illusion to another. This ...

• Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. December 04, 2009

  In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love.This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of...

• There was complete emptiness of the brain, and the mind was free of all experience, the knowing of yesterday, though a thousand yesterdays have been. December 16, 2009

  And walking on that road, there was complete emptiness of the brain, and the mind was free of all experience, the knowing of yesterday, though a thousand yesterdays have been. Time, the thing of th...

• Meditation, along that quiet and deserted road came like a soft rain over the hills; it came as easily and naturally as the coming night. December 22, 2009

  Meditation, along that quiet and deserted road came like a soft rain over the hills; it came as easily and naturally as the coming night. There was no effort of any kind and no control with its con...

• Meditation as a means to arrive, to gain, to discover, only gives strength to the meditator. December 28, 2009

  The end of meditation is meditation itself. The search for something through and beyond meditation is end-gaining; and that which is gained is again lost. Seeking a result is the continuation of se...

• Meditation implies a mind that is so astonishingly clear that every form of self-deception comes to an end. January 20, 2010

  Meditation implies a mind that is so astonishingly clear that every form of self-deception comes to an end. One can deceive oneself infinitely; and generally meditation, so-called, is a form of sel...

• To pursue the known in different forms is a game of self-deception, and then the meditator is the master, there is not the simple act of meditation. March 01, 2010

  Meditation is a very important action in life; perhaps it is the action that has the greatest and deepest significance. It is a perfume that cannot easily be caught; it is not to be bought through ...

• We all need a quiet mind, a peaceful mind, an absolutely silent mind without a murmur of thought. Is that possible? Possible means we don't know. March 07, 2010

  We said meditation is a state of mind in which all the things that thought has invented - the illusions, the beliefs, the dogmas, the rituals, the habits, the sexual demands - all that is no longer...

• I hesitate to say this because it sounds extravagant and rather childish: that the source of all energy had been reached. March 14, 2010

  Krishnamurti: And one morning, one night in Rishi Valley I woke up - a series of incidents had taken place, meditation for some days - I woke up one night, in the middle of the night, it was really...

• You can't empty the mind, do what you will you can't empty it, because the desire to empty it is part of the activity of the self. March 19, 2010

  Q: Why is it so difficult to empty one's mind? Krishnamurti : Now just listen to that question. Why is it so difficult to empty the mind? Listen to this. The speaker stated: meditation is the em...

• It is only when the mind is silent that we can understand anything April 05, 2010

  The whole of the Orient is mesmerized by the word meditation, and in the Occident, the word prayer is of tremendous importance. It is essential to find out whether the mind - which is so very compl...

• 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. April 21, 2010

  Happiness and pleasure you can buy in any market at a price. But bliss you cannot buy for yourself or for another. Happiness and pleasure are time-binding. Only in total freedom does bliss exist. P...

• Meditation is not an escape from the world; it is not an isolating self-enclosing activity, but rather the comprehension of the world and its ways. May 05, 2010

  Meditation is not an escape from the world; it is not an isolating self-enclosing activity, but rather the comprehension of the world and its ways. The world has little to offer apart from food, cl...

• For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. May 10, 2010

  For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. One has to know what it is to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; ...

• Meditation is the silence of the mind, but in that silence, in that intensity, in that total alertness, the mind is no longer the seat of thought, because thought is time, thought is memory, thought is knowledge. July 26, 2010

  The word `meditation' is very common in the East and throughout the whole of Asia; they practise what they call meditation. One sees poor men, ill-clad and ill-fed, sitting under a tree meditating,...

• Surely meditation is understanding - meditation of the heart is understanding. August 16, 2010

  So what is meditation? Surely meditation is understanding - meditation of the heart is understanding. How can there be understanding if there is exclusion? How can there be understanding when there...

• Your task is much greater than the speaker's; it is not the other way round - which most of us are used to; the speaker does all the work and you just listen, agree or disagree, and go away elated, amused, intellectually alerted; November 14, 2010

  So you have a double job - hearing the words and listening. Naturally, when you hear the word , the word has a meaning, and that meaning evokes certain responses, certain memories, certain reaction...

• You are forcing your mind to fix itself on an idea which is not born of innate and vital interest, because if it were, there would be no conflict, you would concentrate spontaneously and without effort. January 08, 2011

  Question: Will you please tell us your ideas about meditation? Krishnamurti: What do you mean by meditation and why do you meditate? If you mean by it concentration, it is quite different from m...

• Why do you feel that you must meditate? February 10, 2011

  Why do you feel that you must meditate? Do you mean by meditation, concentration? If you are really interested, then you do not struggle, force yourself to concentrate. Only when you are not intere...

• You may strive for [that] spiritual height; but I assure you that, though you may appear to attain it, you will still experience the feeling of emptiness. February 14, 2011

  You ask me: "Have you a new way of meditation to offer us?" Now you meditate in order to achieve a result. You meditate with the idea of gain, just as you live with the idea of reaching a spiritual...

• To live a natural life, full, spontaneous life, creative, intelligent life, you can only do that when you understand the false standards and the true standards of society, and have broken away from it because you understand their significance; June 02, 2011

  Question: Virtue does not appear to be a very prominent feature in your teachings. Why is this? Has the virtuous life so small a part to play in the realization of truth? Krishnamurti: What do ...

• I wonder what people generally mean by meditation. June 19, 2011

  Question: In order to discover lasting values, is meditation necessary, and, if so, what is the correct method of meditation? Krishnamurti: I wonder what people generally mean by meditation. As ...

• The intelligent man is the summation of intelligence; his is an absolute, direct perception without twists and perversions which result when memory functions. October 04, 2011

  Intelligence imparts no values, which are but the measures, standards or calculations, born out of self-protectiveness. So how is there to be this intelligence, this mirror of truth, in which there...