Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes About Meditation

Quotes about: Meditation

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  Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Mean

  Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)

• So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Silence, Meditation

• The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

• I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
  It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,
  deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Attachment, Essence

• The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

• To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation Practice, Mind, Quiet

  "Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself".

• The flowering of love is meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

• Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hate, Journey, Gossip

• Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Morning, Laughter, Eye

• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Art, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.37, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

• Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding

• In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Choices, Meditation, Understanding

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

• The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Mean, Meditation Practice

• Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Perception, Brain

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1994). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.141, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

• Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Happiness, Freedom, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

• When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Two, Effort, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

• To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Mind, Body

• When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational Life, Meditation, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1953-1955): What Are You Seeking?”, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

• To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Meditation, Calling

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

• In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.40, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

• The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Mind, Firsts

• Meditation is the action of silence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Silence, Meditation, Acting

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.54, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

• Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Water, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1993). “The Meditative Mind”, p.5, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

• If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Evelyne Blau (2002). “Meditations”, p.13, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

• The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Ends, Where You Are

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2002). “Meditations”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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