Free from the net of time
- Jiddu Krishnamurti: Without meditation, there is no self-knowledge;
without self-knowledge, there is no meditation. So,
you must begin to know what you are. You cannot go
far without beginning near, without understanding
your daily process of thought, feeling , and action.
- In other words, thought must understand its own
working, and when you see yourself in operation, you
will observe that thought moves from the known to
the known. You cannot think about the unknown. That
which you know is not real because what you know is
only in time.
- To be free from the net of time is the important
concern, not to think about the unknown, because you
cannot think about the unknown. The answers to
your prayers are of the known. To receive the
unknown, the mind itself must become the unknown.
The mind is the result of the thought process, the
result of time, and this thought process must come
to an end. The mind cannot think of that which is
eternal, timeless; therefore, the mind must be free
of time, the time process of the mind must be
dissolved. Only when the mind is completely free
from yesterday, and is therefore not using the
present as a means to the future, is it capable of
receiving the eternal....
- Therefore, our concern in meditation is to know
oneself, not only superficially, but the whole
content of the inner, hidden consciousness. Without
knowing all that and being free of its conditioning,
you cannot possibly go beyond the mind’s limits.
That is why the thought process must cease, and for
this cessation there must be knowledge of oneself.
Therefore meditation is the beginning of wisdom,
which is the understanding of one’s
own mind and heart.
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