Meditation is not a movement from one centre to the other. Mind in its thinking perceives the world from its perspective with an established centre. This can be called as the dimension of its perception. Contrary to this, mind in our meditation dissolves these centers. This is termed as Freedom from the known by Krishnamurti.
Krishnamurti’s ideas of choice are very interesting.
Every mind establishes a centre. And these centers will be the perspectives of that mind eternally. And every centre is having its own choice. As we have seen that Freedom with Krishnamurti is the centre-less mind. And as it is without a centre it will not exercise its choice. Choice becomes limitation and truly a denial of freedom. Krishnamurti’s ideas come from the very concept of non-dualism. The discrimination between objective world and subjective world will vanish generally in our meditation. Thus choice becomes choice between the two. So choice cannot be freedom. Psychologically it may seem absurd. But Krishnamurti simply says that choice is freedomlessness. Meditation frees the human mind from the perplexities of right and wrong choice. In a meditative mind there is no choice.
Meditation is indeed a state of choice-less-ness31.
Meditation is opening the door to spaciousness which cannot be imagined or speculated upon.
Silence and spaciousness go together.
The immensity of silence is the immensity of the mind in which a centre does not exist.
Krishnamurti writes:
Meditation is an entry into the immensity of space. It is an experience of the immeasurable where all measurements of the mind shall cease32.
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