It is not about figuring it out, it is about relaxing the mind so that the truth may emerge from the soul. Knowing cannot be forced, it already is - just waiting for the space to make itself known. Awareness arises when there is room for it.
The amazing thing about meditation is that when you go into it focusing on a specific question, you can receive answers to those questions without actively thinking or brainstorming answers. All you’re doing is creating a clearing. When I tell you “the answers are usually already inside you,” I mean that sometimes you just need to give yourself the
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Truth is in what is—and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware. We see that our living, our action, is always within the field of destruction, within the field of sorrow; like a wav... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was only when there were gaps in his struggle that insights came to him. He began to realize that there was a sane, awake quality within him which manifested itself only in the absence of struggle. So the practice of meditation involves “letting be.”