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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,

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

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding

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

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

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

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Memories, People, Meditation

Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Space, Meditation, Waiting

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Order, Meditation, Mind

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

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

Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Light, Meditation

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Mind, Body

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, Light, Meditation
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1970). “The only revolution”, Not Avail

Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation, Listening, Mind

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

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Meditation, Attention

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Effort, Meditation, Ego

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.

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

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Practice, Meditation, Important
Third Public Talk, Bangalore, India, January 13, 1973.

Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

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

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual, Meditation, Understanding
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.89, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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 the action of silence.

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

Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mean, Eye, Meditation

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