The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
Interpretation
Meditation starts in the chaos of everyday life, embracing uncertainty and emotional experiences.
Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes that meditation is rooted in the realities of daily existence, including struggles and joys. He suggests that one must embrace the unknown and dive into the practice without expectations, opening oneself to the beauty of the meditative journey, which unfolds without a clear destination.
In practice
In a mindfulness workshop, to encourage participants to embrace their thoughts and emotions.
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.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.
In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.
Whatever is your present experience, you can recognize the spaciousness that allows it to be. You are this spaciousness, this awareness, this love. Deeper love and more spacious awareness is the best lesson you can get from any experience.
Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
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