by Ron Alexander
Meditation is a state of attention beyond thought which brings total freedom from authority and ambition, fear and seperateness. And freedom from time - an extraordinary feeling of timelessness, Krishnamurti added: "Meditation is never in time; time cannot bring about mutation, it can bring about change which needs to be changed again, like all reforms. Meditation that springs out of time is always binding, there is no freedom in it and without freedom there is always choice and conflict.
I did not understand Krisnamurti until I actually experienced "total freedom" in my own meditation, now it is the "gold standard" of which I would like to have moment to moment. Ron Alexander
Krishnamurti on Meditation as a Movement of Love
Meditation is one of the most extraordinary things, and if you do not know what it is you are like a blind man in a world of bright colors, shadows and moving light. It is not an intellectual affair, but when the heart enters into the mind, the mind has a different quality; it is really, then, limitless, not only in its capacity to think, to act efficiently, but also in its sense of living in a vast space where you are part of everything.
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar, whether golden or earthernware; it is inexhaustible. And a peculiar thing takes place which no drug or self-hypnosis can bring about: it is though the mind enters itself, beginning at the surface ever more deeply, until depth and height have lost their meaning and every form of measurement ceases. In this state, there is complete peace - not contentment which has come about through gratification - but a peace that has order, beauty and intensity.
Meditation is a state of attention beyond thought which brings total freedom from authority and ambition, fear and seperateness. And freedom from time, Krishnamurti added: "Meditation is never in time; time cannot bring about mutation, it can bring about change which needs to be changed again, like all reforms. Meditation that springs out of time is always binding, there is no freedom in it and without freedom there is always choice and conflict.
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