Mountain Mystic

The inner oasis

[mountain-sage]

There is no God to pray to. Brahman is yourself. Shiva is your consciousness. You are that.

What else is there to know? You do not have to be a scholar of the Upanishads. You do not have to memorize various passages. You have to become like a little child and stay centered in the present. No one exists but you. You are the only existence. There is no other existence. If you took this room and everything in it, the tape recorders, the bodies, the flowers, the carpet, and began to melt it down to it's most minutest particles, you would get pure energy from everything. Everything will come from the same source. That source is absolute reality. It is the substratum of all existence. And that source is you. You are that. You are nothing else.

Everything else is a lie. You're searching, and you're striving, and you're looking for this, and you're looking for that. Give it up. Stay put. Do not allow your mind to think past your nose.

Catch your mind. Observe it thinking, and laugh.

ROBERT ADAMS

[radical-revolution]

[radical-revolution]

[julesofnature]

“Instead of asking “What is the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ thing to do?” the practitioner asks, “What is the wisest and most compassionate thing to do?” . ~ Stephen Batchelor, After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

[julesofnature]

"Who you are is an unfolding narrative." ~ Stephen Batchelor 

[mountain-sage]

[mountain-sage]

Don't imagine!

Don't think!

Don't analyze!

Don't reflect!

Don't meditate!

Keep your spirit in its natural state.

Tilopa 

[radical-revolution]

[radical-revolution]

[radical-revolution]

[mountain-sage]

[mountain-sage]

[mountain-sage]

[mountain-sage]

So what will make you change? Sir, please ask yourself, burn with that question! Because we have fallen into the habit of meditation and we won't break that habit, because we are always thinking we are going to get something. Sir, conscious meditation is no meditation. You understand what I am saying? To deliberately sit down, repeat mantras, means nothing, that's not meditation. That's a cheap escape. So what will make you change?

You understand, sir? Your house is burning and apparently you don't pay attention. So, you see, if you don't change, society remains as it is and the clever people are coming along and say, society must be changed, which means new structure and through that structure hope to change man. You follow all this? And then say, yes, we are doing both - change man, and the new structure. The structure then becomes more important than man, as all revolutions have pointed out.

J. Krishnamurti

Public Talk 3 Madras (Chennai), India - 29

December 1979

[mountain-sage]

Healing of the mind gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree and the blade of grass that pushes through cement, with the hills hidden by the clouds. -Krishnamurti

[mountain-sage]

The Meaning of the Word "Meditation". | Krishnamurti

I hope you are listening to find out for yourself, for nobody, nobody can teach you what meditation is, however long-bearded the gentleman is, or whatever strange garments he may wear. But to find out for yourself and stand by what you find out for yourself and not depend on anybody.

So for that one must understand very carefully the meaning of that word, which means to measure, basically. What does that imply? From the ancient Greeks to modern times, measurement in engineering is essential - right? The whole technological world of the West, Northern West rather, is based on measurement - right? You cannot possibly put together a bridge without measurement, or build a marvellous hundred story high building without measurement. And also inwardly we are always measuring: I have been, l will be - right? I am this, I have been this, I must be that - right? Which is not only measurement but comparison. Measurement is comparison. You are tall, I am short. Or, I am tall, you are short. I am light and you are brown - you follow? - measurement. So to understand the meaning of measurement and the two words 'better' and 'more' - to understand those two words and never use those two words, 'better' and 'more' inwardly - you understand all this? Are you doing it now as we are talking together? You have understood the meaning of that word meditation.

J. Krishnamurti

Saanen 1983 - Public Talk 6 - Religion and meditation

[mountain-sage]

Painters, writers and poets probably consider themselves creative. We all seem to agree with this popular idea of a creative person. Many manmade things are extraordinarily beautiful: the great cathedrals, temples and mosques - and we know nothing of the people who built them. But now, with us, anonymity has almost gone. With anonymity there is a different kind of creativity, not based on success or money. Anonymity has great importance; in it there is a different quality - personal motives, attitudes and opinions do not exist and there is a feeling of freedom, from which there is action. But most manmade creativity, as we call it, takes place from the known. Great musicians - Beethoven, Bach and others - acted from the known; writers and philosophers have read and accumulated. Although they developed their own style, they were always moving, acting or writing from that which they had accumulated: the known. And this we generally call creativity. Is that really creative, or is there a different kind of creativity born out of freedom from the known?

Krishnamurti, Questions and Answers