The ego says that my first priority is to remain, exist, and after that comes everything else. Even the Truth must be subservient to my first priority. So, liberation is alright as long as it is a second of liberation. Peace is alright as long as it is five minutes of peace. But if silence threatens to take over the entire life, if peace starts dominating noise to the extent that the noise might be completely annihilated, then the ego rejects. The ego wants Truth, but only a modicum of Truth. The ego wants peace, but only a sliver of peace.
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“Love is a state in which there is no ‘me’, Love is a state in which there is no condemnation, No saying that sex is right or wrong, That this is good and something else is bad. Love is none of these contradictory things. Contradiction does not exist in love.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
Questioner: Krishnamurti says that one craves sex because in that one finds no ‘me’—ego, and hence no conflict, and one uses it as an escape. So, why does one then not use meditation too as an escape? Is it because one lacks understanding energy? Or is it because the outside influences and inherent tendencies—acquired and biological—are too strong? Does this call for an inner strength stronger than the outer influences? How would one describe this inner strength in words, if it exists?
