Meditation

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It’s curious how all important meditation becomes, there’s no end to it

nor is there a beginning to it. It’s like a raindrop in that drops are all the

streams, the great rivers, the seas and the waterfalls; that drop nourishes the

earth and man; without it, the earth would be a desert. Without meditation the

heart becomes a desert, a wasteland.

· Meditation is to find out whether the brain, with

all its activities, all its experiences, can be absolutely quiet. Not forced,

because the moment you force, there is duality. The entity that says, “ I would

like to have marvelous experiences, therefore I must force my brain to be

quiet” – will never do it. But if you begin to enquire, observe, listen to all

the movements of thought, its conditionings, it pursuits, its fears, its

pleasures, watch how the brain operates, then you will see that the brain

becomes extraordinarily quiet ; that quietness is not sleep but is tremendously

active and therefore quiet. A big dynamo that is working perfectly hardly makes

a sound; it is only when there is friction that there is noise.

· Silence and spaciousness go together. The immensity

of silence is the immensity of the mind in which a center does not exist.

· Meditation is hard work. It demands the highest form

of discipline – not conformity, not imitation, not obedience – but a discipline

which comes through constant awareness, not only of the things about you

outwardly, but also inwardly. So meditation is not an activity of isolation but

is action in everyday life, which demands co-operation, sensitivity and

intelligence.

Without laying the foundation of a righteous life, meditation becomes an

escape and therefore has no value whatsoever. A righteous life is not the

following of social morality, but the freedom from envy, greed and the search

for power – which all breed enmity. The freedom from these does not come

through the activity of will but by being aware of them through self- knowing.

Without knowing the activities of the self, meditation becomes sensuous

excitement and therefore of very little significance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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