The first step is to perceive, perceive what you are thinking, perceive it, without any condemnation, justification, without wishing it to be different, perceive without center.
And when you have perceived, you leave it, forget it. If you do not drop what you have learnt, what you have perceived, then there is a continuity of the movement of thought; and the movement and continuity of thought is time. And when the mind is caught in the movement of time, it is in bondage.
Can hought ever come to an end?
That is the part of Krishnmurti meditation. It is part of a total mutation of the brain cells themselves, because if there is a continuity of the movement of thought, it is the repetition of the old, because thought is memory, thought is the response of memory, thought is experience, thought is knowledge.
The traditional approach to this question is control it, hold it, or learn to concentrate.
Is not the controller part of the thought, part of the knowledge which says you must control?
So there is a way of observing thought without any control, without giving it a continuity, but observing so that it ends.
And it is only when the mind is completely quiet, that there is the possibility of perception. To give one's attention completely, that attention itself is silence.
Silence is completely necessary, not only at the superficial level, but at the most deep level, at the very root of our being there must be complete silence.
Therefore the mind must observe, must be aware choicelessly of every perception and there must be the ending of that perception instantly, seeing and ending.
You know all this demands tremendous perception, tremendous vitality, energy. Now let us find how this energy comes into being.
The question is, can the ordinary everyday energy be heightened, can this energy be completely held without any form of distortion?
Now let us find out, by investigating what is distraction.
Our energy is dissipated in conflict, conflict between two nations, conflict between two opinions, conflict between the husband and the wife and the children, conflict between trying to see God and suppressing all your instincts. That is also conflict, that is distortion. How does one have this complete energy without distortion? So that is a distortion of energy, every form of conflict dissipates energy.
So when you see the truth, when you perceive the truth that every form of conflict is a distortion, that very perception is the ending of conflict at that moment. Do not say "I have seen it once and I am going to hold on. And therefore there is no radical change in the structure of the memory, in the structure of the brain cells.
