Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
Interpretation
Meditation is a personal and intuitive practice rather than a rigid procedure or mere concentration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes that true meditation transcends structured systems, repetitive techniques, and the act of merely concentrating. Instead, he advocates for a deeper, instinctive approach to meditation that involves awareness and understanding, encouraging individuals to explore their inner selves without the confines of a prescribed method.
In practice
During a mindfulness workshop, one might mention this quote to illustrate the freedom of personal meditation practices.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
Faith in the resurrection of Jesus says that there is a future for every human being; the cry for unending life which is a part of the person is indeed answered... God exists: that is the real message of Easter. Anyone who even begins to grasp what this means also knows what it means to be redeemed.
When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.
You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.
For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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