Have you ever sat very
quietly without any movement? You try it, sit really still, with your back
straight, and observe what your mind is doing. Don’t try to control it, don’t
say it should not jump from one thought to another, but just be aware of how
your mind is jumping. Don’t do anything about it, but watch it as from the
banks of a river you watch the river flow by. In the flowing river there are so
many things – fishes, leaves, dead animals – but it is always living, moving,
and your mind is like that. It is everlastingly restless, flitting from one
thing to another like a butterfly…just watch your mind. It is great fun. If you
try it as fun, as an amusing thing, you will find that the mind begins to
settle down without any effort on your part to control it. There is then no
censor, no judge, no evaluator; and when the mind is thus very quiet of itself,
spontaneously still, you will discover what it is to be gay. Do you know that
gaiety is? It is just to laugh, to take delight in anything or nothing, to know
the joy of living, smiling, looking straight into the face of another without
any sense of fear.
--from Think on These Things by J. Krishnamurti
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