Violence

What takes place when you give complete attention to the thing that we
call violence? Violence being not only what separates human beings,
through belief, conditioning, and so on, but also what comes into being
when we are seeking personal security, or the security of individuality
through a pattern of society. Can you look at that violence with
complete attention? And when you look at that violence with complete
attention, what takes place? When you give complete attention to anything our
learning of history or mathematics, looking at your wife or your
husband that takes place? I do not know if you have gone into it probably most
of us have never given complete attention to anything but when you do,
what takes place? Sirs, what is attention? Surely when you are giving
complete attention there is care, and you cannot care if you have no
affection, no love. And when you give attention in which there is love,
is there violence? You are following? Formally I have condemned
violence, I have escaped from it, I have justified it, I have said it is
natural. All these things are inattention. But when I give attention to what
I have called violence and in that attention there is care, affection,
love here is there space for violence?

The Book of Life - June 22

This ache for the other shore

 

 

Krishnamurti: Eight Conversation--4

In the understanding of meditation there is love, and love is not the product of systems, of habits, of following a method, love cannot be cultivated by thought. Love can perhaps come into being when there is complete silence, a silence in which the meditator is entirely absent; and the mind can be silent only when it understands its own movement as thought and feeling. To understand this movement of thought and feeling there can be no condemnation in observing it, to observe in such a way is a discipline, and that kind of discipline is fluid, free, not the discipline of conformity.

 

Krishnamurti---<<meditation>>P.47.

 

It had rained heavily during the night and the day, and down the gullies the muddy stream poured into the sea, making it chocolate—brown. As you walked on the beach the waves were enormous and they were breaking with magnificent curve and force. You walked against the wind, and suddenly you felt there was nothing between you and the sky, and this openness was heaven. To be so completely open, vulnerable---to the hills, to the sea and to man---is the very essence of meditation.

 

To have no resistance, to have no barriers inwardly towards anything, to be really free, completely, from all the minor urges, compulsions and demands, with all their little conflicts and hypocrisies, is to walk in life with open arms, And that evening, walking there no that wet sand, with the sea gulls around you, you felt the extraordinary sense of open freedom and the great beauty of love which was not in you or outside  you---but everywhere.

 

We don’t realize how important it is to be free of the nagging pleasures and their pains, so that the mind remains alone. It is only the mind that is wholly alone that is open. You felt all this suddenly, like great wind that swept over the land and through you. There you were—denuded of everything, empty—and therefore utterly open. The beauty of it was not in the world or in the feeling, but seemed to be everywhere--- about you, inside of you, over the waters and in the hills, Meditation is this.

 

Krishnamurti---<<Meditation>> P.45.

 

 

Meditation, then, is not the pursuit of some vision, however sanctified by tradition. Rather it is the endless space where thought cannot enter. To us, the little space made by thought around itself, which is the “me”, is extremely important, for this is all the mind knows, identifying itself with everything that is in that space. And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter into a dimension of space where action is inaction.

 

we do not know what love is, for in the space made by thought around itself as the “me”, love is the conflict of the “me” and the “not-me.” This conflict, this torture, is not love.

 

Thoughts  is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the “me” is not. In that space is the benediction which man seeks and cannot find. He seeks it within the frontiers of thought, and thought destroys the ecstasy of this benediction

 

Belief is so unnecessary. as are ideals. Both dissipate energy which is needed to follow the unfolding of the fact, the “ what is.”  Beliefs, like ideals, are escapes from the fact and in escape there is no end to sorrow. The ending of sorrow is the understanding of the fact from moment to moment. There is no system or method which will give understanding but only a choiceless awareness of a fact. Meditation according to a system in the avoidance of the fact of what you are; it is far more important to understand yourself, the constant changing of the facts about yourself, than to meditate in order to find God, have visions, sensations, and other forms of entertainment.

 

Krishnamurti---<<meditation>> P.40-41.

 

 Meditaion was like that river, only it had no beginning and no ending; it began and its ending was its beginning. There was no cause and its movement was its renewal. It was always new, it never gathered to become old; it never go sullied for it had no roots in time. It is good to meditate, not forcing it, not making any effort, beginning with a trickle and going beyond time and space, where thought and felling cannot enter, where experience is not.

 

Krishnamurti ---<<Meditation>> P.38.