Krishnamurti: “Innocence of the Present, Always Alone”
“Meditation is the innocence of the present, and therefore always alone. The mind that is completely alone, untouched by thought, ceases to accumulate. So the emptying of the mind is always in the present. For the mind that is alone, the future—which is of the past—ceases. Meditation is a movement, not a conclusion, not an end to be achieved.
One must really understand this question of the past—the past as yesterday, through today, shaping tomorrow from what has been yesterday. Can that mind, which is the result of time, of evolution, really be free of the past? Which is to die. It is only a mind that knows this, that can come upon this thing called meditation. Without understanding all this, to try to meditate is just childish imagination.
[from "Meditation" to "achieved" The Only Revolution, p.94.
from "One must" to "imagination" Beyond Violence, p. 117.]
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Telugu: జిడ్డు కృష్ణ మూర్తి, Tamil: கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி)
(12 May 1895 – 17 February 1986)
Philosopher, public speaker, and writer,on psychological,
sociological, and spiritual subjects.
“Meditations” p. 107.
~cave canem~ vvvv
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