does not depend on capacity. It is not a technique that you develop, cultivate and increase through time, through constant sharpening. This awareness of oneself can be tested in the action of relationship; it can be tested in the way we talk, the way we behave. Watch yourself without any identification, without any comparison, without any condemnation – just watch – and you will see an extraordinary thing taking place. You not only put an end to an activity which is unconscious, but, further, you are aware of the motives of that action, without inquiry, without digging into it.

From The First and Last Freedom

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Meditation is the attention in which there is an awareness, without choice, of the movement of all things, the cawing of the crows, the electric saw ripping through the wood, the trembling of leaves, the noisy stream, a boy calling, the feelings, the motives, the thoughts chasing each other and going deeper, the awareness of total consciousness. And in this attention, time as yesterday pursuing into the space of tomorrow and the twisting and turning of consciousness, has become quiet and still. In this stillness, there is an immeasurable, not comparable movement; a movement that has no being, that is the essence of bliss and death and life; a movement that cannot be followed, for it leaves no path, and because it is still, motionless, it is the essence of all motion.

From Krishnamurti’s Notebook

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If you are inquiring into what meditation is, then the formulas, the repetitions, the mantras, the various things that you do must be put aside, and the mind must be entirely quiet. Either what you are doing now is meditation, or it is not. If it is meditation, there is no problem. But to find out if what you are doing is meditation, you must be free to look at it, to question it; you cannot merely accept it. To inquire into what meditation is, surely that freedom is the first necessity. So, can you be free from all your practices, from all your disciplines, from all your various conclusions and compulsions? And if you are freeing yourself from those things because you are inquiring into what meditation is, that very inquiry is meditation.

From Collected Works, Vol. 8

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If there is order in one’s life, real order, then what is meditation? Is it following certain systems, methods: the Zen method, the Buddhist meditation, the Hindu meditation, or the methods of the latest gurus? If meditation is determined, if it is following a system or method, practised day after day, what happens to the human brain? It becomes more and more dull. Is meditation something entirely different? It has nothing whatever to do with methods, systems and practices. Therefore, it can never be mechanical. It can never be conscious meditation. It is like a man consciously wanting money and pursuing money: consciously you meditate, wanting to achieve peace, silence. The man who pursues money, success, power, and the man who pursues so-called spirituality are both the same.

From Total Freedom

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Inwardly, is one in order, or is there disorder? Can one observe this fact? And what takes place when one observes choicelessly, which means without any distortion? Where there is disorder, there must be conflict. Where there is absolute order, there is no conflict. There is an absolute order that can only come about naturally, easily, without any conflict, when one is aware of oneself as a consciousness, aware of the confusion, the turmoil, the contradiction, outwardly and inwardly, observing without any distortion. Then out of that comes naturally, sweetly, easily, an irrevocable order.

From How to Find Peace

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