The ego uses both sex and meditation as an escape || Acharya Prashant, on J. Krishnamurti (2017)

“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 good and something else is bad.

Love is none of these contradictory things.

Contradiction does not exist in love.”

~ J. Krishnamurti

Question: 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. Why does one not use meditation too as an escape? Is it because that one lacks understanding, energy? Or is it because that the outside influences and inherent tendencies, acquired and hence 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?

Acharya Prashant(AP): The basis of the question is, that one probably does not use meditation as an escape. But one does use meditation as an escape. One uses everything as an escape.