It had rained heavily during the night and the day, and down the
gullies the muddy stream poured into the sea, making it chocolate-brown.
As you walked on the beach the waves were enormous and they were
breaking with magnificent curve and force. You walked against the wind,
and suddenly you felt there was nothing between you and the sky, and
this openness was heaven. To be so completely open, vulnerable to the
hills, to the sea and to man is the very essence of meditation. To have
no resistance, to have no barriers inwardly towards anything, to be
really free, completely, from all the minor urges, compulsions and
demands, with all their little conflicts and hypocrisies, is to walk in
life with open arms. And that evening, walking there on that wet sand,
with the seagulls around you, you felt the extraordinary sense of open
freedom and the great beauty of love which was not in you or outside you
but everywhere. We don't realize how important it is to be free of the
nagging pleasures and their pains, so that the mind remains alone. It is
only the mind that is wholly alone that is open. You felt all this
suddenly, like a great wind that swept over the land and through you.
There you were denuded of everything, empty and therefore utterly open.
The beauty of it was not in the word or in the feeling, but seemed to be
everywhere about you, inside you, over the waters and in the hills.
Meditation is this.
(J. Krishnamurti)
