Meditation

In this quote, Krishnamurti discusses attention and how the use of meditation can be important to help to understand the world around us, developing a deeper sense of connection with ourselves and others.

“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.

“What is religion? Man has sought something that is not of this world. From the most ancient of people till now man has sought something that time, thought, has nothing to do with that. He has sought it. And in his search he has been trapped by…

It’s only a silent mind that can perceive, that can actually see; not a chattering mind, not a controlled mind. So, what is meditation?

It is not put together by the mind because what the mind has put together, the mind can undo.

The mind must shift from a knowing position to one of questioning, which allows the possibility of seeing something new.