Who Am I?

 

Now, before you meditate, who is the meditator? Right? The meditator says, 'I must meditate'. Right? Are you following all this? Who is the meditator? It's still a thought, isn't it? Please observe. 

Thought has found, learnt that it has created this confusion in the world and inwardly, and therefore thought says, 'Now, perhaps I'll be able to find peace through meditation'. So it says, 'I must control thought'. Thought is saying to itself, separating itself as the thinker and the thought and the thinker says, 'I must control thought'. Right? 

So there is conflict between the thinker and the thought in controlling it, isn't there? Because thought goes off and the thinker says, 'I must hold on'. So there is conflict there. Right? Which is a wastage of energy. Right? 

So the thinker Me is the product of thought, is he not? Don't say he is the atman; that concept is again still the product of thought; so you are caught in a trap. Right? No? When the thinker says, 'I must control thought' who is the thinker, how has he come into being? Is he not the product of thought? Right? 

Therefore the thinker Me is the thought. Right? Oh no, you don't see it, sir. You are merely agreeing. Don't, don't. Do it yourself, you will see it. Look at yourself. 

So you say meditate. Meditation means control of thought. It's up to you. Meditation means control of thought, concentration of thought, and in all that there is conflict because thought wanders off and you try to pull it back. You keep up this game for the next twenty years, or ten days is good enough. So that's a wastage of energy. Whereas if you saw the truth that the thinker is the thought - you understand sir? Thinker is the thought. Without thought there is no thinker.

So when there is no division between the thinker and the thought, conflict comes to an end. Right? You understand this, sir? Please understand this very carefully, if you are really earnest about this, go into this. Then the division between the thinker and the thought is not, therefore the thought is the thinker, the thinker is the thought. You realise what happens then? When thought is the thinker and the thinker is trying to control thought, dominate thought, twist its tail, there is a division between the two - space - but the thinker is the product of thought, without thought there is no thinker. So when the thinker is the thought and the thought is the thinker, what takes place?  

J Krishnamurti 

Talk 3, Rajghat, 30 November 1969.


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