Meditation is not separate from daily living
- Jiddu Krishnamurti: Meditation is to live a diligent life. Meditation
is not separate from daily living; it is not going
off into a little corner, meditating for twenty
minutes every day or every afternoon, every evening;
that is just having a siesta. There is no system.
System implies practice. Practice means measurement
- from what you are to what you want to be, and you
may be practising the wrong note. And probably you
are. You call that meditation. That meditation is
totally separate from your daily living.
- Find out
whether it is possible to live a daily life of
meditation which means no measurement at any time.
In meditation, there is no control because the
controller is the controlled. In meditation there is
no will because will is desire. The essence of
desire is will - 'I will meditate, I will practise
this day after day.' In meditation there is no
effort at all because there is no controller.
- Meditation implies awareness, awareness of the
earth, the beauty of the earth, the dead leaf, the
dying dog, to be aware of your environment; to be
aware of your neighbour; to be aware of the colours
you carry, why you wear that colour and those beads,
to be aware of that. To be aware of the beauty of
the wind among the leaves, to be aware of your
thoughts, your feelings, that is, to be aware
without choice - just to be aware. That heightens
your sensitivity - to observe diligently everything.
When you say I will do something, do it, never
forgetting what you have said. Do not say something
you don't mean. That is part of meditation.
- That is,
to be aware of your feelings, your condition. your
opinions, your judgments, and your beliefs so that
in that awareness there is no choice - just to be
aware of the beauty of the earth, the skies and the
lovely waters. When you are so aware, then there is
attention; to attend not only to see the speaker but
also to what your wife is telling you or your
husband is telling you or your children are telling
you, what the politicians are telling you - their
trickery, their search for power, position. When you
so profoundly attend, there is no centre as the 'me'
to attend. That is also meditation.
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