Intimacy with Reality
#2149
I’m in Chennai, the city of Jiddu Krishnamurti.
This morning, the app I use as a companion for my practices welcomed me with one of his quotes:
“Meditation is not escape; it is intimacy with reality.”
Quite a meaningful coincidence.
For a long time, as I’ve written in the past, I struggled with meditation. I was trying hard to stay still, focus on my breath, and free my mind from thoughts.
All in vain.
The harder I tried to escape from my spinning mind, the more my thoughts came in waves. It felt like an endless argument with myself.
Until I came across a talk by Krishnamurti. It was a completely liberating moment.
Following his teaching, I stopped trying.
I started seeing meditation not as a pause in my daily living, but as a fundamental part of it. I realized that everything becomes meditation when I attend completely to it.
Driving. Walking. Talking to someone. Writing. Eating.
When I stop trying to escape and simply give my full attention to what I’m doing, the friction disappears.
The mind becomes quiet on its own.
Even in the traffic of a buzzing Indian city.