A Quote by J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti on meditation, krishnamurti,
mind, silence, and action When you turn your head from horizon
to horizon your eyes see a vast space in which all the things of
the earth and of the sky appear. But this space is always
limited where the earth meets the sky. The space in the mind is
so small. In this little space all our activities seem to take
place: the daily living and the hidden struggles with
contradictory desires and motives. In this little space the mind
seeks freedom, and so it is always a prisoner of itself.
Meditation is the ending of this little space. To us, action is
bringing about order in this little space of the mind. But there
is another action which is not putting order in this little
space. Meditation is action which comes when the mind has lost
its little space. This vast space which the mind, the I, cannot
reach, is silence. The mind can never be silent within itself;
it is silent only within the vast space which thought cannot
touch. Out of this silence ther