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This Light in Oneself: True Meditation Jiddu Krishnamurti
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

To forget oneself is to be enlightened by all things. It is see our real face with out any mask. His main theme He offers timeless insights into the source of true freedom and wisdom.Amazon.com Repudiating his upbringing as a Theosophist World Leader, Krishnamurti pushed a sort of religious self-reliance, as evidenced in the title of this collection of essays, This Light in Oneself. I wanted all along to cultivate . Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. Meditation is to know oneself as one is. Heart meditation Allowing external influences (light from outside oneself or the form of an external master) into the heart risks inviting in things that are possibly not compatible to ones very existence. Meditation is not concentration. Leaving Europe as a young woman, Martine Batchelor found her life transformed by an encounter with Buddhist meditation. Concentration makes the mind strong and one pointed. Meditation takes us beyond the mind and it is an process of dis-identifying with the mind. However, I was not so interested in slowly awakening to my own true nature: I wouldn't have minded if it had suddenly and unexpectedly happened to me. These selections present the core of Krishnamurti's teaching on meditation, taken from discussions with small groups, as well as from public talks to large audiences. Whereas meditation makes the mind weaker and with constant meditation mind loses its grip on us. While the standard practice makes a vague suggestion to meditating on divine light in the heart, it is mentioned by preceptors and in the various literatures since the Founder's days, that meditating on a "true" masters form in the heart is "more effective". If it is only the time between the changing of a traffic light, it does not matter.