Krishnamurti on Solitude
“It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed.”
"He who has conquered his mind is quiet in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, in honor and dishonor; he remains centered in the Divine."
— Bhagavad Gita (6:7)
The Vijñāna-Bhairava Tantra (often spelled Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) is a short but explosive manual of direct experience: 163 Sanskrit stanzas framed as a dialogue between Śiva (Bhairava) and Śakti (Bhairavī) that present ~112 meditation-techniques (yuktis/dhāraṇās).
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