Meditation is the most marvellous thing if you know the meaning of a mind that is in meditation—not how to meditate. If you see what meditation is not, you will know what meditation is. Through negation, you come upon the positive, but if you pursue the positive, it leads to a dead end. We say meditation is not the practice of any system. You know, people who sit and become aware of their toes, of their bodies, of their movements, who practise, practise, practise. Systems cannot reveal the beauty and depth of the marvellous thing called meditation. Nor is meditation concentration. When you concentrate or attempt to concentrate, in that concentration, there is the observer and the observed. There is the one who says, ‘I must concentrate, I must force myself to concentrate,’ and so concentration becomes a conflict. When you learn to concentrate, like at school, that concentration becomes a process of exclusion, building a wall against thought with other movements ...
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