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Empty Your Mind
by J. Krishnamurti
Meditation is not the taming of the brain to conform nor is it a self-introspective analysis, it is
certainly not the training in concentration which
includes, chooses and denies. It’s something that
comes naturally, when all positive and negative assertions and accomplishments have been
understood and drop away easily. It is the total
emptiness of the brain. Out of this emptiness,
love comes, otherwise it’s not love. Foundation
of righteousness is in this emptiness. It’s the end
and beginning of all things.
Complex Businesszzz
The word meditation implies both in Sanskrit
and in English, not only the brain concentrating on a certain subject, but also a great deal of
attention. But primarily in Sanskrit, it means to
measure. In English, too, the meaning is almost
the same. The ancient Greeks were the originators of measurement. Without measurement
there would be no technology. And to the Asiatics, specially in India, measurement is illusion,
limitation. And also in meditation is implied, the
meditator and the meditation. It is a very complex business.
So to enquire into meditation, you have to enquire first not only into measurement, but also
this constant becoming something, psychologically. Human beings are violent, and the ideal
to be in a state of non-violence, which is to become. Meditation is never control of body. There
is no actual division between organism and the
mind. The brain, the nervous system and what
we call mind are one, indivisible. It is the natural act of meditation that brings about harmonious movement of the whole. To divide the body
from mind and to control the body with intellectual decisions is to bring about contradiction,
from which arise various forms of struggle, conflict and resistance.Every decision to control only
breeds resistance, even the determination to be
aware. Meditation is the understanding of the
division brought about by decision. Freedom is
not the act of decision but the act of perception.
The seeing is the doing. It is not a determination
to see and then to act. After all, will is desire with
all its contradictions. When one desire assumes
authority over another, that desire becomes will.
In this there is inevitable division. And meditation is the understanding of desire, not the overcoming of one desire by another. Desire is the
movement of sensation, which becomes pleasure and fear. This is sustained by the constant
dwelling of thought upon one or the other.
Me And Non-me
Meditation really is complete emptying of mind.
Then there is only functioning of body; there is
only activity of the organism and nothing else;
then thought functions without identification as
me and non-me. Thought is mechanical, as is the
organism. What creates conflict is thought identifying itself with one of its parts which becomes
me, the self and various divisions in that self.
There is no need for self at any time. There is
nothing but body, and freedom of mind can only
happen when thought is not breeding me. There
is no self to understand, but only the thought
which creates the self.When there is only organism without self, perception, both visual and
non-visual can never be distorted. There is only
seeing ‘what i >(