Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: p>Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away?
Is the poem both peculiar and general?
There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or
Not apprehended well. Does the poet
Evade us, as in a senseless element?</p
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Chance (1947), p. 277
“Meditation is a state of mind in which the operation and exercise of will is not.”
3rd Public Talk, Bangalore, India (13 January 1973)
1970s
“Faith and devotion are the foundation on which meditation is built.”
Source: Ashtanga Yoga Primer, 1981, p.27
“A mind that is in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator.”
The meditator is the observer, the senser, the thinker, the experiencer, and when there is the experiencer, the thinker, then he is concerned with reaching out, gaining, achieving, experiencing. And that thing which is timeless cannot be experienced. There is no experience at all. There is only that which is not nameable. ...You know, in all this there are various powers like clairvoyance, reading somebody’s thought — which is the most disgusting thing to do: it is like reading letters that are private. There are various powers. You know what I am talking about, don’t you? You call them siddhis, don’t you? Do you know that all these things are like candles in the sun? When there is no sun there is darkness, and then the candle and the light of the candle become very important. But when there is the sun, the light, the beauty, the clarity, then all these powers, these siddhis — developing various centres, chakras, kundalini, you know all that business — are like candlelight; they have no value at all. And when you have that light, you don’t want anything else.
The First Step is the Last Step (2004), p. 281
1970s, Krishnamurti in India, 1970-71 (1971)
3rd Public Talk, Bangalore, India (13 January 1973)
1970s
"Third Talk at Rajghat" (25 December 1955) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=527&chid=4846&w=%22Meditation+is+not+a+process+of+learning+how+to+meditate%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 551225, Vol. IX, p. 192
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Source: What is Philosophy? (1964), p. 15
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, as translated by Chenmo Translation Committee (2000) p. 99
