Tam Kỳ Nguyên Nguyên Bản Bản
Chơn-Lư Tầm Nguyên
Tam Kỳ Nguyên Nguyên Bản Bản Chơn-Lư Tầm Nguyên
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Citations from Krishnamurti (1895-1986) Meditation "Any form of concious meditation is not the real thing: it can never be. Deliberate attempt to meditate is not meditation. It must happen; it cannot be invited. Meditation is not the play of the mind nor of desire. All attempt to meditate is the very denial of it. Every form of meditation leads inevitably to deception, to illusion, for desire blinds. Only be aware of what you are thinking and doing and nothing else. The seeing, the hearing, is the doing, without reward and punishment. The skill in doing lies in the skill of seeing, hearing." "Any authority on meditation is the very denial of it. All the knowledge, the concepts, the examples have no place in meditation. The complete elimination of the meditator, the thinker, is the very essence of meditation. This freedom is the daily act of meditation". "Meditation is not an end to be found. The puting away of what you have learned or experienced is meditation. The freedom from the experiencer is meditation. The action of meditation is intelligence". "Meditation is the emptying of consciousness of its content, the known, the "me". Empty mind K described this
state in his Journal (1973): "He had so few thoughts; no
thoughts at all when he was alone.
His brain was active when talking or writing but otherwise it was quiet and
active without movement". "You
are not even aware that meditation is going on, this meditation that began ages
ago and would go on endlessly." "Without passion there is no creation. Total abandonment brings this unending passion... This abandonment is the emptying of the mind of the "me", the self... The abandonment of the self is not an act of will, for the will is the self. Any movement of the self is still within the field of time and sorrow... The awareness of all this is the awakening to the activities of the self; in this attention there is no centre, the self". "To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure". The art of listening "Listening to one's thought or to the bird on a branch or to what is being said, without the response of thought, brings about a wholly different significance from that which the movement of thought brings. When you listen without any movement of thought, you listen out of complete quietness, out of total silence." "Be alone without word and thought, but only watching and listening. The great silence showed that without it, existence loses its profound meaning and beauty". Love "The abandonment of the self is Love, compassion: passions for all things - the starving, the suffering, the homeless. Love is not sentimentality, romanticism". "Love is not in time nor in analysis. It is there when desire for money, position and the cunning deceit of the self are not". "Attachment gives a sense of belonging, identification with something, a sense of reality, of being. When that is threatened, there is fear, anger, envy, jealousy, pain. Is all this love? In the denial of what love is not, love is". Freedom from the known "Unless he leaves all the things he accumulated in the river and swims ashore, death will always be at his door. For the river is the movement of time and thought is of it. When the observer leaves everything which he is, then the observer is not. It is the timeless. You cannot know it, for what is known is of time; you cannot experience it; recognition is made up of time. Freedom from the known is freedom from time. When time is not then death is not. Love is". "Knowledge is time, and freedom from the known is the flowering of meditation". "Freedom from the known is the essence of intelligence". Freedom "Freedom is to be a light to oneself. In this light all action takes place and thus it is never contradictory. This light is the law. All the other laws are made by thought and so fragmentary and contradictory". "Freedom of choice denies freedom; choice exists only where there is confusion. Clarity of perception, insight, is the freedom from the pain of choice". "That freedom is the order, the harmony, of silence... Order is the highest form of virtue, sensitivity, intelligence". "To be a light to oneself denies all experience. The one who is experiencing as the experiencer needs experience to exist... Experience is knowledge, tradition... The believer experiences according to his belief, according to his conditioning. These experiences are from the known, for recognition is esential... Every response to a challenge is an experience but when the response is from the known, challenge loses its newness and vitality... The very nature of challenge is to question, to disturb, to awaken, to understand. But when that challenge is translated into the past, then the present is avoided. The conviction of experience is the negation of inquiry. Intelligence is the freedom to inquire, to investigate the "me" and the "not me"... Belief, ideologies and authority prevent insight which comes only with freedom... Thought will never find the new for it is old, it is never free. Freedom lies beyond thought... To be a light to oneself is the light of all others. To be a light to oneself is for the mind to be free from challenge and response, for the mind then is totally awake, wholly attentive. This attention has no centre, and so no border". Is it possible never to be hurt? "What is the thing that is hurt? The image that each one has built about himself, that is what is hurt. What they did to him, what they said to him never seemed to wound him, nor flattery to touch him. It is not that he was insensitive, unaware: he has no image of himself, no conclusion, no ideology. Image is resistance. Seeing the Truth of it is the ending of the image builder. When you discover for yourself the beauty of never being hurt, then only do all the past hurts disappear. In the full Present the past has lost its burden". Know yourself "Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation... In knowing yourself, you will know the universe". Thought Thought gives to itself a center, as the ego, the "me". Thought is time. "Thought in its very nature is fragmentary and this causes confusion and sorrow. Thought has divided the world into nationalities, ideologies and into religious sects. Thought is disharmony. All its images, ideologies are self-contradictory and destructive. To read all this in your daily life, to hear and see the movement of thought is the transformation that meditation brings about. This transformation is not the "me" becoming the greater "me" but the transformation of the content of conciousness. The conciousness of the world is your consciousness; you are the world and the world is you. Meditation is the complete transformation of thought and its activities. Harmony is not the fruit of thought; it comes with the perception of the whole". Transformation "The space that thought creates is measurable and so is limited; cultures and religions are its products. Time is the observer who makes the distance between himself and what is. Without the observer, distance ceases. The observer makes a separation, from this grows conflict and sorrow. When the experiencer is the experience, then there come about a totally different kind of energy which transforms what is. The transformation of what is takes place only when there is no separation, no time, between the seer and the seen". "The "me" has its being and its activity within the small space it has created for itself. All its problems and sorrows, its hopes and despairs are within its own frontiers, and there is no space. Within this frontiers there is no solution to all the problems human beings have put together". "The energy that has gone into accumulation of knowledge has not changed man; it has not put an end to violence. The energy which has been spent in analysis of the causes of his insane destruction, his pleasure in the bullying activity, has in no way made man considerate and gentle. In spite of all the words and books, threats and punishments, man continues his violence. In total attention, the summation of all energy, violence in all its forms come to an end. Attention is not a word, an abstract formula of thought, but an act in daily life". Sleep "Sleep is very important. In sleep the mind rejuvenates itself. In sleep order, adjustment and deeper perception take place; the quieter the brain the deeper the insight. During quiet sleep there are movements, states, which thought can never reach. Dreams are disturbance. Dreams are the expression in different forms and symbols of our daily life. If there is no harmony in our daily relationship, then dreams are a continuance of that disorder". Analysis 'In analysing there is the analyser and the analysed, a fragmentation which leads to inaction, a paralysis. In seeing, the observer is not, and so action is immediate. Identification is an act of thought and thought is fragmentation". Religion "Religion has become superstition and image-worship, belief and ritual. It has lost the beauty of truth; incense has taken the place of reality. Instead of direct perception there is in its place the image carved by the hand or the mind. The truth is not to be found in any temple, church or mosque, however beautiful they are. Beauty of truth and the beauty of stone are two different things. One opens the door to the immeasurable and the other to the imprisonment of man; the one to freedom and the other to the bondage of thought". "The conditioning of the mind through so-called education, religion, tradition, culture, gives little space to the flowering of the mind and heart". The world of priesthood "The priest stands between you and what he and you consider truth, saviour, god, heaven, hell. He has conditioned man through belief, dogma and ritual. He has conditioned you because you want comfort, security, and you dread tomorrow". Materialism "It is an age-old conflict between those who believe man is matter and those who pursue the spirit. Thought is material and its activity is materialistic. thought is measurable and so it is time. Thought is memory, experience and knowledge, and this memory, with its images and its shadows, is the self, the "me" and the "not me", the "we" and "they". Materialism only gives strength and growth to the self. The self may and does identify itself with the State, with an ideology, with activities of the "non-me", religious or secular, but it is still the self. Its beliefs are self-created, as are its pleasures and fears. Thought by its very nature is fragmentary, and conflict and war are between the various fragments, the nationalities, the races and ideologies. A materialistic humanity will destroy itself unless the self is wholly abandoned. The abandonment of the self is always of primary importance. And only from this revolution a new society can be put together".
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