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Krishnamurti: So what is meditation? Not how to meditate. When you ask 'how' there is somebody to tell you what to do. Right? If you don't ask 'how' and say what is meditation, then you have to exert your own capacity, your own experience, however limited, you have to think - right? And you say, "Tell me what is meditation, I'll go off into some kind of silly dream."
The word 'meditation' means to ponder over, to think over, to be concerned with. And also it means, the root meaning, to measure, both in Sanskrit, Latin, Greek and so on, and in English, to measure.
And also inwardly we are always measuring: I have been, I will be - right? I am this, I have been this, I must be that - right? Which is not only measurement but comparison. Measurement is comparison.
That is, meditation is the understanding of the word, the meaning of measurement, and the ending of measurement psychologically, which is to become. The ending of that. And the seeing the limited thought, thought is everlastingly limited.
It may think of the limitless but it is still born of the limit. So it comes to an end. So the brain, which has been chattering along, muddled, limited, has suddenly become silent, without any compulsion, without any discipline, because it sees the fact, the truth of it. And the fact and the truth, as we pointed out the other day, is beyond time. And so thought comes to an end.
And where there is space and silence it is only then something new, which is untouched by time, thought, can be. That may be the most holy, the most sacred - may be. You cannot give it a name. It is perhaps the unnameable. And when there is that then there is intelligence and compassion and love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
1983
Saanen 1983
Saanen 6th Public Talk 21st July 1983 http://www.jiddu-krishnamu
Talks by Krishnamurti in Ceylon 1957 (Verbatim Report) Colombo, Ceylon http://www.jkrishnamurti.o
Freedom From All Belief http://www.krishnamurtiaus
The Observer is the Observed
Ojai, California. 6th Public Talk 1946 http://www.jiddu-krishnamu
1983 - Jiddu Krishnamurti www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net
1983 - Jiddu Krishnamurti
www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net
The word 'meditation' means to ponder over, to think over, to be concerned with. And also it means, the root meaning, to measure, both in Sanskrit, Latin, Greek and so on, and in English, to measure.
And also inwardly we are always measuring: I have been, I will be - right? I am this, I have been this, I must be that - right? Which is not only measurement but comparison. Measurement is comparison.
That is, meditation is the understanding of the word, the meaning of measurement, and the ending of measurement psychologically, which is to become. The ending of that. And the seeing the limited thought, thought is everlastingly limited.
It may think of the limitless but it is still born of the limit. So it comes to an end. So the brain, which has been chattering along, muddled, limited, has suddenly become silent, without any compulsion, without any discipline, because it sees the fact, the truth of it. And the fact and the truth, as we pointed out the other day, is beyond time. And so thought comes to an end.
And where there is space and silence it is only then something new, which is untouched by time, thought, can be. That may be the most holy, the most sacred - may be. You cannot give it a name. It is perhaps the unnameable. And when there is that then there is intelligence and compassion and love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
1983
Saanen 1983
Saanen 6th Public Talk 21st July 1983 http://www.jiddu-krishnamu
Talks by Krishnamurti in Ceylon 1957 (Verbatim Report) Colombo, Ceylon http://www.jkrishnamurti.o
Freedom From All Belief http://www.krishnamurtiaus
The Observer is the Observed
Ojai, California. 6th Public Talk 1946 http://www.jiddu-krishnamu
1983 - Jiddu Krishnamurti www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net
1983 - Jiddu Krishnamurti
www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net
