MEDITATION

Continuing on the summarizing through excerpts from “Talks and Dialogues” JD Krishnamurti.

Meditation is a loaded word, and there are several schools of meditation, different methods, various systems which will produce attention. They say “watch the movement of your hand” or “pay attention to it, work and watch it, watch it” and so on. Meditation as control, following an idea, looking on an image, taking a phrase and going into it, listening to the word Om or Amen, listening to the sound of it, following it, etc. There is implied an activity of thought, an activity of imitation, a movement of conformity to an established order. According to JD those are not meditation at all. Meditation is to be aware of thought, of feeling, never to correct it, never to say it is right or wrong, never to justify it, but to just watch it and move with it. In that watching and moving with that thought, with that feeling, you beginning to understand and to be aware of the whole nature of thought and feeling. Out of this awareness comes silence, not simulated, not controlled, not put together by thought, for silence put together by thought is stagnant, is dead. Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning, the nature of itself, how all thought is never free but always old. To see all this, to see the movement of every thought, to understand it, to be aware of it, is to come to that silence which is meditation, in which the ‘observer’ never is.