|
"Can you observe without all this upsurging of conditioning?"
The Book of Life, July 28 |
|
"Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind;
meditation is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of
fragmentation has ceased. Meditation is
not control of thought, for when thought is controlled it breeds conflict in
the mind, but when you understand the structure and origin of thought...then
thought will not interfere. That very
understanding of the structure of thinking is its own discipline which is
meditation.
Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. Silence put together by thought is stagnation, is dead, but the silence that comes when thought has understood its own beginning, the nature of itself, understood how all thought is never free but always old – this silence is meditation in which the meditator is entirely absent, for the mind has emptied itself of the past. ...To understand this movement of thought and feeling there can be no condemnation in observing it..." Freedom From the Known, p.115 |
|
"Seeing without thought, without the word, without the response of memory is wholly
different from seeing with thought and feeling...Seeing without thought is
total seeing. Seeing a cloud over a mountain, without thought and its responses, is the
miracle of the new; it’s not 'beautiful,' it’s explosive in its immensity; it is something that has
never been and never will be."
Krishnamurti’s Notebook, p.55 |
|
"To understand anything you must live with it, you must observe it, you
must know all its content, its nature, its structure, its movement. Have you
ever tried living with yourself? If so, you will begin to see that yourself is
not a static state, it is a fresh living thing. And to live with a living thing
your mind must also be alive. And it cannot be alive if it is caught in opinions,
judgements and values."
Freedom from the Known, p.23 |
