Swanwick Star Issue No. 7 (2014)
Meditation without the Meditator
“Perhaps nobody can really meditate, because the very presence of you trying to meditate eliminates the arising of meditation. The meditator is not someone who meditates, but is the meditation itself. Meditation, he (Krishnamurti) says, is the ending of thought, but not by the meditator. The meditator is a thought-constructed “self” and thus cannot meditate. The meditator cannot bring an end to the movement of thought, because it is a product of thought. In that sense, perhaps meditation is a sort of brain-washing, but not of the scary, cultish kind that replaces one set of mental conditionings for another. Instead, to Krishnamurti perhaps meditation is a sort of detox, or purification of the mind, by allowing thoughts to find their proper place, and not dominate or shut out the silent mind with their constant chatter.”
Prof.Hillary Rodrigues
We at KECC are saddened by the recent loss of Mary Cadogan, who visited Wolf Lake School with Dorothy Simmons just before its inauguration in 1976 from Brockwood Park School in England. We were all impressed by her handsome and statuesque appearance and the gift of her autographed, new book “You’re a brick, Angela”. Although Dorothy (the sculptress-principal of Brockwood Park) was the vivacious one, Mary was the kind, soft-spoken one. She remained a Trustee of the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust until the end.
