Meditation, Light, Love

In the course of doing research for a book that I am writing about energy and the creative process, I have come across some interesting writings. The following is an excerpt from "At the Feet of the Master" by Alcyone (a.k.a. Jiddu Krishnamurti)

"Mind your own business, and learn the value of silence."

"It must be your own duty that you do . . .Leave every man to do his own work in his own way; . . . never interfere. For many people the most difficult thing in the world to learn is to mind their own business. But that is exactly what you must do. " . . .

"Be a force in the direction of evolution. Think each day of someone whom you know to be in sorrow, or suffering, or in need of help, and pour out loving thought upon him." . . .

Meditation was more than sitting quietly. In Krishnamurit's later pronouncements, it was a state of pure attention, of deep self-abandonment, i.e. the abandonment of thought (of ego).

"Meditation was going on as you watched the light of the early morning sun on the river . . . The very light was part of that meditation which you looked at the bright dancing water in the quiet morning -- not with a mind translating it into some meaning, but with eyes that saw the light and nothing else. Light, like sound, is an extraordinary thing . . . The light that the eyes see is not the light on the water; that light is so different, so vast that it cannot enter into the narrow field of the eye. That light, like sound, moved endlessly -- outward and inward -- like the tide of the sea. And if you kept very still, you went with it, not in imagination or sensuously; you went with it unknowingly, without the measure of time.

The beauty of that light, like love, is not to be put into a word. But there it was -- in the shade, in the open, in the house, on the window, . . . without that light what you see is of so little importance, for the light is everything . . .

It would be there in the evening again, during the night, and when the sun rose over the trees, making the river golden. Meditation is the light in the mind which lights the way for action; and without that light there is no love.