Friday, May 29, 2020

the movement of love






Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one
or of the many.  It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar...
it is inexhaustible. 

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life,
 the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order,
 and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order,
 then that very order will bring about its own limitation, 
and the mind will be its prisoner.
 
 In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, 
from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore
 or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water,
 not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation
 is that you never know where you are, 
where you are going, what the end is.




~  J. Krishnamurti
from The Meditative Mind
with thanks to Love is a Place




 

2 comments:

Barbara Rogers said...

A very good description of meditation. Thanks.

Dean Keller said...


as you said, "it takes imagination," to find our way to love and compassion in these times. Meditation opens a space where this can arise.

thanks Barbara