Meditation
- March 2014
- Hi Steph Simple Living
Dear Steph,
You have my deepest respect and admiration concerning what You are doing. You are conducting a really first hand life. In Your website You mention that You are rich and I know You are, although Your husband tragically died in the mountains which I regret deeply. All the time I wonder if You have made contact to tow other groups of people who are no rock climbers or basejumpers. Those groups are big wave surfers and apnoe divers. I think You and Your fellow climbers are in a special way similar to members of these groups concerning foremost their attitude towards life and death. It’s always astounding for me how similar you are.
I learned that You are interesting in meditation and Asian spiritual traditions. Did You ever heard about a person claled Jiddu Krishnamurti?
He was an Indian philosopher studying the human nature and especially the human mind all his life.
He died in 1986. You can see and hear his talks on Youtube. If You never heard of him and You are interesting I recommend You to watch on Youtube a series of talks he was conducting with Dr Allen Anderson oif the San Diego State University in 1974. This series is composed of 18 talks between the two persons.
Specially You should hear 4 of these talks, namely about fear, death and meditation.
What I tell You now, might be surprising You and You might think I am little bit crazy but I am convinced that Jiddu Krishnamurti knew the absolute truth about death. He was one of a few thousand of people on this planet who really know the real nature of death and I would recommend You to listen very carefully his talk about death
You also should listen to his talk about meditation because he explains what meditation is.
As far as I understand meditation is a mean to understand the whole life and the nature of death.
But it might be that You already know all this because during risking Your life You meditate.My deepest respect and my best wishes to You
Take good care of Yourself
Yours sincerely
Thomas
Thank you very much Thomas for sending me this letter and the links: I have listened to these talks now, and really appreciated them. I like what you said, that meditation is a way to understand the whole life and nature of death.
Steph
Beauty and self-abandonment
Beauty is not something put together by man. Beauty is when there is complete self-abandonment, a total relinquishing of the self, the “me”, with all its aches and loneliness, with all its despairs, anxieties, and fears. Then you will live in this world as a human being.
Talks in Europe 1968, p 44
