unfortunateley the few who are not eaten up on stony ,
dry ground are soon beset by inumerable diversions to inner inquiry...
heres a spacy linkhowever a word from the man,lest we
get too far off the subject...(taken from his notebooks...a discussion...)
"In the very beginning is the ending.There's no distance to be covered,no climbing, no point of arrival.
Meditation itself is timeless, it's not a way of arriving at a timeless state.It is,without a beginning and without an ending.
But these are mere words,and they will remain as such as long as you don't inquire into and understand for yourself the truth and the falseness of the meditator.
-"Why is that so important?"
"The meditator is the censor,the watcher,the maker of 'right' and 'wrong' effort. He's the centre, and from there he weaves the net of thought;but thought itself has made him; thought has brought about this gap between thinker and the thought.Unless this division ceaces,so-called meditation only strengthens the centre,the experiencer who thinks of himself as apart from the experience.The experiencer is always craving more experience;each experience strengthens the accumulation of past experiences,which in turn dictates,shapes the present experience.Thus the mind is ever conditioning itself.So experience and knowledge are not the liberating factors that they are supposed to be.
-"Im afraid I dont understand all this ,"he said,rather bewildered.
"the mind is free only when it is no longer conditioned by its own experiences,by knowledge,by vanity,envy;and meditation is the freeing of the mind from all these things,from all self-centered activities and influences."
-I realize that the mind must be free from all self-centred activities,but I do not follow what you mean by influences"
"your mind is the result of influence,isn't it?From childhood your mind is influenced by the food you eat,by the climate you live in,
by your parents,by the books you read ,by the cultural environment in which you are educated, and so on.You are taught what to believe and what not to believe;your mind is a result of time,which is memory,knowledge.All experiencing is a process of interpreting in terms of the past, of the known,and there's no freedom from the known;there is only a modified continuity of what has been.The mind is free only when this continuity comes to an end."-(from J J Krishnamurti ,commentaries on living,3rd series,B,I publications pvt ltd,India.)