Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
Interpretation
Meditation is a personal and intuitive practice rather than a rigid procedure or mere concentration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes that true meditation transcends structured systems, repetitive techniques, and the act of merely concentrating. Instead, he advocates for a deeper, instinctive approach to meditation that involves awareness and understanding, encouraging individuals to explore their inner selves without the confines of a prescribed method.
In practice
During a mindfulness workshop, one might mention this quote to illustrate the freedom of personal meditation practices.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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