Meditations

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Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was born to a pious middle-class family in the rural town of Madanapalle in south India. He was 'discovered' in his boyhood by the leaders of the Theosophical Society, Dr. Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, who proclaimed that he was the World Teacher that the Theosophists were waiting for. However, later he dissociated himself from all organized religions and institutions and embarked on his solitary mission, meeting and talking to people not as a guru but as a friend.

From the early 1920s till 1986. Krishnamurti travelled round the world till the age of 91, giving talks, writing, holding discussions, or sitting silently with those men and women who sought his help and advice. His teachings were based not on book knowledge and scholarship, but on his insight into the human condition and his vision of the sacred. He did not expound any philosophy, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday life: the problems of living in modern society with its corruption and violence, the individual's search for security and happiness, and the need for man to free himself from his inner burdens of greed, violence, fear, and sorrow.

Tan, in order to escape his conflicts, has invented many forms of meditation. These have been based on desire, will, and the urge for achievement, and imply conflict and a struggle to arrive. This conscious, deliberate striving is always within the limits of a conditioned mind, and in this there is no freedom. All effort to meditate is the denial of meditation.

Meditation is the ending of thought. It is only then that there is a different dimension which is beyond time.

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