Krishnamurti on Meditation - Control
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Religions now filled with dogmas and rituals which makes modern intellectuals scoff at them and rightly be skeptical. Yet towards the end of their lives, many seem to revert to these orders
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It is because Religion is fundamental towards human desire for meaning - that there. is something beyond the ordinary material world.
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That is why humanity invents various philosophies, religions. To be intoxicated by that illusion
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But we all start at the level playing field. In the realm of spiritual and philosophical enquiries - why do we submit to these orders and traditions? What makes authorities have what we don’t? It’s nothing - All the raw material is within all - There is no authority.
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Meditation means to *ponder over. *Mantra similarly means to ponder, to put away self centred activity - These nobody can teach
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All such systems, including meditation have been invented by thought.
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Thought is limited, so these systems are limited and can’t be reached via mere understanding and practice
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In fact the meditation as a step, routine or practice indicates a path towards something objective. There is no static object waiting on the otherside. The path is illusory.
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The routine limits the mind and makes one’s mind dull and mechanical. The mind loses its pristine sharpness of direct perception.
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We are gullible in being attracted to such intoxicants because of the desire of meaning
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The raw materials needed are nothing but common sense and a critical mind - A mind first free from illusions
Meditation : The mind is no longer limited or conditioned hence partial but rather works as a whole
Meditation and Contemplation
While contemplation can be within conditioning. i.e. a christian priest contemplating, Meditation comprises of
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Attention
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Without specialisation
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Without beliefs and ideology i.e. without thought
How is then Meditation possible in a Specialising/Conditioning World?
A physicist is specialised in his enquiries. He is already anchored in his identity not only as a physicist, but as a man, a professor, a father, a husband, an ill person. His ontics towards Meditation would be through these lenses.
The existence of both - the specialised physicist and the meditating human-being
Before any specialization, we are humans with consciousness - the pre-specialised wholeness we had before any specialization. This pre-specialized consciousness is accessed via attention.