Brockwood Park 1970

If One is Conforming, There is no Freedom

Q: What are the implications of conforming and is it possible not to conform at all?

Why does the human mind conform? The whole process of education is conformity. Does conformity lead to security? Is not the very observer the result of centuries of conforming?

Can the observer become aware of himself as the source, the very essence of conformity?

Are you aware of division in yourself? Are you aware, when you look at a tree, or the sky that you are always looking through division? Can the mind be intensely aware and not create an image?

The observer becomes aware of himself not through the fragment of any action but within himself lights the fire that dissolves the observer.

Maturity is Freedom from Conditioning

Q: What shall I do when I realize that my whole life is based on thought?

Has feeling any significance apart from thought? Is love a product of thought? Can you remain with a feeling without naming it? Despair, misery, confusion who is feeling all this?

How has this division come about between the observer and the observed? Can you look at a tree without the image of a tree? Can you look with eyes that have never been touched by the past? Can those eyes look innocently, with freedom ?

Is the thinker separate from thought?

Observing Without the "Me"

Who is the observer who decides what to do what he should think, what he should become? He is one fragment amongst many.

What is the action that will be total? Can thought bring about this total observation?

Is it not thought that has created division?

The moment I am aware of my conditioning there is a duality, isn't there? Can I observe myself without any image?

Can there be a learning without accumulation so that the mind is always fresh to learn?

Thought sustains pleasure, doesn't it? Is pleasure an escape from fear? Would conflict disappear if one became aware?

Can One Live Without Psychological Effort?

Is there a living where action is complete? A way of living that is of great delight without the exhausting process of pleasure.

Can the mind see this whole existence as one unitary movement - observe life without formulas & concepts?

Change is only possible if the mind can be made new. Can one let go of the past and have a mind capable of learning?

What is the factor that will make the mind new? A quiet mind can observe "what is" and go beyond. Can I know I have a quiet mind?

Q: What does the cessation of sorrow imply?

Does sorrow end only through self-understanding? When we no longer desire there is an end to sorrow.

Does a Free Mind Choose?

Is divisive, destructive, separative conditioning creating all the havoc in the world? How is conditioning that is deep to be revealed? And how is one to go beyond all conditioning?

Is the observer different from what he examines, from himself? Is the analyser different from what he analyses? What happens to a mind that discovers this?

Is there division and so conflict between knowledge and action? Why has knowledge become so important in life? What place has knowledge in freedom?

Decision implies choice. What need is there for any choice at all?

Q: Why do you need experience at all?

Q: Can a mind caught in becoming be creative?

Acting Without Ideas

It has always been the question: How to go beyond the petty, shoddy little self? Can the mind see so the very seeing is doing?

Usually there is an idea, a concept and then action follows. Where there is division as idea and action isn't conflict inevitable? Intelligence is seeing danger and acting.

Isn't self-centredness a factor of division? Can the mind, realizing the transiency of things, find something not of time? Meditation implies a mind free of self-deception.

Q: Why does the mind endlessly chatter?

The mind is frightened if not occupied. Can thought end so that it does not sustain fear?