Attention

“When you listen attentively, in that attention there is no ‘you’ attending. You are listening. Not that you are listening, there is only the act of listening. So where there is attention there is no center which is the self, the ‘me’, the psyche. That is meditation, to attend so completely and diligently there is nothing of negligence, then there is the beginning, the real depth of meditation…

“There must be a new order, a new way of living. To bring about that new order, that new way of living, we must understand disorder. It is only through negation that you understand the positive, not by the pursuit of the positive…

If you’ve ever looked at a flower, what takes place? First, you name the flower. You say it belongs to a certain species. Then you say…