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Meditation is total attention to whatever you are doing throughout the day. I...

Meditation is total attention to whatever you are doing throughout the day. I...

Public Talk 2 in New York, 28 March 1982

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Meditation is total attention to whatever you are doing throughout the day. If you are putting on your tie, attend to it. If you are talking to somebody, pay complete attention. In attention, there is no centre as the ‘me’. Only when there is no attention, there is the formation and the structure of the self, from which all sorrow, pain and division arise. So meditation is this sense of total absence of the self. And when there is that attention, the mind becomes completely quiet, silent, without any pressure. That which is silent has vast space. Only then that which is nameless comes into being. Then life, all life, yours and another’s, all existence, becomes sacred, holy. This is the meaning of life and the meaning of meditation.

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