Why meditation? - Some more words from JK

Meditation - There are multiple defintions for the same. Is it something that has to be done closing the eyes?  We need to meditate up on something? is there techniques of meditation? Anybody can become a meditator? What is the difference between a meditation and being focused on something?
There are lots of explanation for Meditation, but I just love the way JK & Osho explains it.
It's just to be plain without thinking something, something includes the thought not to think about something. When one is in meditataion , they just accept what they see and what they hear instead of manipulating it. We hear a bird's sound , we immediately think what bird will it be, what would be it's color, how big will it be, The entire knolwedge base comes into picture like an encylopedia. Some people go too far till they fetch it's scientifc biological name. All these are manipulations of the mind. When a true meditator like JK or Osho hears the same sound, They just hear it and let their heart dance for it.

JK on meditation



Meditation is to find out whether the brain, with all its activities, all its experiences, can be absolutely quiet. Not forced, because the moment you force, there is duality. The entity that says, “I would like to have marvellous experiences, therefore I must force my brain to be quiet” will never do it. But if you begin to inquire, observe, listen to all movements of thought, its conditioning, its pursuits, its fears, its pleasures, watch how the brain operates, then you will see that the brain becomes extraordinarily quiet; that quietness is not sleep but it is tremendously active and therefore quiet. A big dynamo that is working perfectly hardly makes a sound; it is only when there is friction that there is noise. Meditations, p 4

Meditation is something quite extraordinary, if it goes on, not at odd moments, but timelessly, if you are aware when you get into the bus, or the car, or when you are talking to someone; aware of what you are doing, feeling, thinking; aware of how thought operates according to pleasure and pain, not condemning any activity of thought but just listening to the noise of thought. Out of that you really have an extraordinary mind that is tremendously alive. Being quiet, being silent, a new thing can take place. The newness is not recognizable. This sublime thing, whatever name you give it doesn’t matter, is not something that is put together by thought, and therefore it is the whole of creation. The Collected Works vol XVI, p 148

-JK

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