The word meditation has been so misunderstood, at least I think so, both in the east and in the west. The word itself means to think over, to ponder over, to enquire into, and not all the things that we have made of it. It is a very complex problem, as all human problems are, and meditation has very little meaning if you have not laid the right foundation for meditation. The very laying of the foundation, which is righteous behaviour, to be free from fear and so on, in the very laying of that foundation is meditation. Meditation isn’t something away, isolated from daily activity, it is all-inclusive. I think this must be understood right from the beginning. It is not something that you do for 20 minutes in a morning or afternoon and at night and then forget all about it and then carry on your daily mischievous life.
So to be aware of oneself without any choice, and to see what is actually happening in the now, is to allow the whole movement of the self, the ‘me’, to flower, and as you observe it undergoes a radical transformation, if there is no background, if there is no observer who is the background.
https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/when-you-are-light-yourself-you-are-light-world-0
Know Thyself 