What is True Meditation? —Part 17 Meditation is blooming creativity. Then, what is creativity? It is to pursuit and to discover new life alone. Life with new discovery is creative. Does life without any pursuit or discovery has any creativity? Besides, is there true religiousness without creativity? Religion doesn’t mean belonging to a certain cult. True religion is starting on a journey of discov

The Words of Simone Weil, The Witness of Truth and Light — Part 26 “To be a man of righteousness, we should be dead, naked.” Being dead, naked means completely abandoning our ego (self). Furthermore, it is being totally “nothing”. Abandon the illusion of ego of “I exist”, and return to the entirely nameless life. When the ego of “me” and its illusion are gone, there is truth of life. Existence of

What is True Meditation? …Part13 Meditation is motion to put an end to illusion and delusion. Human spirit reflects many images in the head, but imagination in the head has no reality. Fantasy and image are unrealistic, and the unreality is just false. Meditation occurs in the absolute reality, and reality is never any delusion in the head. Motion of life and the universe is irrelevant of imaginat

What is True Meditation? —Part12 True meditation is only where you live in the life as it is. The life as it is equals yourself as you are. See and understand yourself as you are. Without this understanding, meditation would be meaningless. Meditation fosters personal transformation. In order to make revolution of life happen, first of all, you should understand yourself. Problems of mind, the cha

The Words of J. Krishnamurti, a Revolutionist of Life — Part 33 “Meditation done by the spirit in complete silence is a blessing which humans have sought. Spirit in meditation contains all changes and movements of silence. Only the silence of spirit is the state of true religious spirit, and silence of God is silence of the earth.” True meditation comes in deep silence. Silence means not the state

The Words of J. Krishnamurti, a Revolutionist of Life — Part 33 “Meditation done by the spirit in complete silence is a blessing which humans have sought. Spirit in meditation contains all changes and movements of silence. Only the silence of spirit is the state of true religious spirit, and silence of God is silence of the earth.” True meditation comes in deep silence. Silence means not the state

Mind and Thought We have plenty of problems in mind. In order to solve those problems, you must see motion of your mind. To see motion of mind is to see motion of thought. To understand the mind is to understand motion of thought. Because mind and thought are the one. When mind moves, thought moves at the same time. Fear, sorrow, conflict, despair — such problems of mind are those of thought at th

What is True Meditation? —Part 8 Where there is envy, no meditation is found. Meditation is not motion to acquire something, but rather motion to purify the spirit from such desires. Human desires are rooted in fear. Desires to experience something delightful and to possess God, are merely escapes from your own vacant life. You seek various things because you don’t have any, and there is always fe

What is True Meditation? — Part 6 Meditation is to transcend motions of thought. Motions of thought are rooted in memories, and they remain old forever. Repeating the old is a motion of thought, and where thought keeps on moving, there is nothing new. Meditation is to reveal the infinite newness of life. “Life” is always new and continues to be created each moment. However, when it is covered with

The Words of Henry Thoreau, a Philosopher in the Woods — Part 22 “Nothing inspires us more than the fact that we definitely have an ability to enhance our own life by the conscious effort. Enhancing the life of the day in quality is the ultimate art for humans.” Only those who lead a sacred life encounter sacredness. Life of human shows the state of mind as it is. To enhance the quality of life is

The Words of Meister Eckhart, a German Mystic — Part 29 “Even if it is just a flower, when it is recognized as a being within God, it can be more noble than the whole world. If a caterpillar falls from a tree, it crawls up to keep its being. Being is so noble.” Eckhart’s word, “being” means the existence of life itself. Being is existence and life. The existence of a flower is being of God and lif

“When the new is going to be born, the old ends. No matter how many yesterdays are collected, not a new day would not be born. For the new to be born, the old must end.” The past, the gone yesterday, is not living at present. It is ‘now’ that is living at present, and it doesn’t have the past. Only ‘now’ is new and the incessant creation of life. No matter how much you value the past memories, the

The Words of J. Krishnamurti, a Revolutionist of Life — Part 27 “Death is not inevitable for any human, and nobody can escape from it. Death always lies in front of us. It may come to us tomorrow or be waiting for us just around the corner. Or it may come many years away, but it is always next to us. Each of us must confront this grim reality of life.” The reality of death is an extremely signific

The Words of J. Krishnamurti, a Revolutionist of Life — Part 26 “As long as you seek consolation, your life falls into delusion, and when it is broken, you grieve that you have lost your consolation. Therefore, in order to understand the grief and get over it, you must look at it firmly, instead of covering what is happening inside of you.” Most of us can’t bear the vacancy of our own mind and lif

Transcend God Human mind seeks God. It is a desire to know God and to possess God. However, no matter what kind of object it is, ego is found where there are desires and obsessions. Desire to possess and experience God are the same desire to seek other pleasure. Because it also ‘desires’ something in mind. As long as you have obsessions or possessions in mind, you would never have freedom in mind.

“There is a group of people who are conceited to be extremely high and completely united with God, but can’t renounce themselves at all and cling to themselves within love and sufferings about trifle matters. They are lamentable people.” Most of us cling to ‘self’. And as we cling to ‘self’, we keep on suffering in mind. We are more concerned in how to keep on holding ourselves than in renouncing

“Man must die thoroughly. Then neither love nor agony can touch us.” The words by Eckhart “Die thoroughly” means to kill your own ego completely. All of sufferings in your mind come from your ego. Feelings of fear come from anxiety to lose yourself, and sorrow and despair come when you lose yourself. The main sources of chaos in mind, such as conflict, anger, hatred, irritation and impatience are

“God is life. The dead is alive within it, and a certain great life which can make even the death alive is sure to exist. That is God, and for God nothing is mortal. Everything is ‘alive’ within it.” God is the universe and the whole life. It is the power of God that gives life and takes the life away. Both life and death are the power of God and the wisdom of God itself. It is also God that creat

“If we consider ‘existence’ as it is, to be pure and unalloyed, then the ‘existence’ shines as life itself. Life is one ‘existence’ and it is within God.” Everything exists within God. Flowers, stones, animals and all things are ‘existence’ as life. The ‘existence’ is equally precious and the miracle of life. Do we humans see the ‘existence’ and ‘life’ simply as they are? All of existence and life

We identify with words while we live. Identification with words is clinging to the words in mind at the same time. When our names are stained or dishonored, we would feel angry or sad. The reason why it happens is that ‘self’ and ‘name‘ are identified, so being stained our names means being stained ourselves. A name maintains ‘self’. We identify with not only names but also with many words. Names