What is not meditation.

Good morning everyone,

Here is today's quote:

To find out what meditation is, the beauty of it, not the word - the word means to ponder over, meaning of that word, to ponder, to think, to recollect - so to find out what is meditation we must approach it negatively. That is to find out what it is not. You understand? Most of us are so positive, and we think meditation is something that we have to do, practice, but if we can approach it with intelligence, not with desire, but with intelligence, which is to see what it is not. So shall we do it together? What it is not.

The Beauty of Death as Part of Life.

Here is my reflection.

Here K is making it clear that we can't expect the meditation technique to do the work for us. This is just a manifestation of our failure to take responsibility for our own transformation. It would be accurate to say that "I don't want to change, to havea complete inner revolution, there I will will practice meditation'> In other words, I'll do something eles. If I want to change, to change totally and be wholly other than the "me", then I will do that. I won't think about it. I won't wait for the meditation technique to chnange me. I'll change. This only comes through intelligence. Only by seeing the false in the false. We are the negative. Our existence s "me" negates life. So the practice is just to look at ourselves, to see the negative, the false, so that all that is left is the positive. The different is that that we don't go looking for it, no journey, no search, no path. This is to be fooled by the word, which is to avoid living, which is to be intelligence, which is to see the negative, which is to get out of the way with our fears and anxieties and let the new be.

Best wishes

Robert