Gitasatsang: J. Krishnamurti's Teachings on Meditation

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The Yoga of Meditation as described in chapter 6 does not focus on

controlling the physical body. J. Krishnamurti beautifully explains

Meditation which fully reflects the views expressed by Gitacharya,

Lord Krishna. The Yogi who fully observes the yoga of meditation

frees the mind from all selfish desires!

 

J. Krishnamurti on Meditation.

"Meditation is never control of the body. There is no actual division

between the organism and the mind. The brain, the nervous system, and

the thing we call the mind are all one, indivisible. It is the natural

act of meditation that brings about the harmonious movement of the

whole. To divide the body from the 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. Meditation is really a complete

emptying of the mind." Beginnings of Learning, Selections from J.

Krishnamurti's teachings.

Source: http://www.krishnamurti.org/selections.htm

 

regards,

 

Ram Chandran

 

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