Can I Live a Harmonious Life? Q: Can I change my fears, my continuous anxiety, my uncertainty? Analysis is one thing, immediate perception of one's reactions is another. I have been trained to think that I am different from the body that the body is different from the spirit trained to separate, to fragment. I see fragmentation everywhere - nationalities, religions, the artist, the housekeeper, division after division. Can I live a life with no fragmentation, a life in which there is deep harmony? Can I honestly say to myself I really don't know how to live a harmonious life? What takes place in the mind that starts from not knowing? It is free of fear of tomorrow, of the past, of death? |
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Can Habit End Without Decision, Choice? Q: Is there such a thing as decision or do we let things happen? Why do I have to choose, make a decision? Is it because I have conflicting, contradictory desires? If I see something very clearly there's no choice. How do I end a habit without resistance, without saying "I must not", "I must control"? Is it possible to see the whole mechanism of habit from a different dimension of awareness? The moment I decide to practise awareness it is a wastage of energy. Can there be awareness without my deciding to be aware? It is our traditional, everyday, cultural habit to say that decision is the only way to achieve something. Is there an action in which decision is not involved at all? |
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Being Free of the Deepest Conditioning Have religions resolved human suffering? Can the mind come upon a different dimension and resolve misery? How is thought to be free of sorrow and fear? Can thought prevent division or come upon a dimension free of division? Can thought function beautifully, efficiently, healthily and not create division? Is intelligence measurable by thought? In the act of listening is perception of truth. Q: How am I to be aware of my unconscious images? When thought is in operation is there silence, is there awareness? Is awareness a seeing in which there is no image? |
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Action Without the Authority of the Image Is there complete and incomplete action? Have images become the authority in action? Can there be an action without any sense of authority? Experience becomes the image that becomes the authority. Can we have a relationship without the authority of images? What causes disorder in our lives? There is disorder in constant indulgence in opinions, in comparision. Dreams may be the mind trying to order itself. Also, any form of image in myself brings disorder. Can image formation be prevented? When the heart and mind are totally attentive there is no image-making. |
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Are Love and Pleasure Interwoven? Why has sex such a prominent place in life? Is it that in sexual activity there is total freedom? Can our minds find freedom? What is the quality of mind that is chaste? What is the line between pleasure and love? When does delight become pleasure? Thought perpetuates delight and joy as pleasure and wants to repeat it. Can the intellect ever perceive beauty? What has love to do with daily living and what has that to do with death? We are afraid to let go of the things with which we are identified - which is death. Then there is something totally new, a different dimension. |
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Meditation Is Total Release of Energy How is one to have energy without friction? There are various forms of meditation. When you pursue a method it makes your mind mechanical. Is meditation the control of thought? Why should there be control at all? Is it possible to know myself completely? What is the nature, structure of the observer? When there is awareness without the observer what takes place? Q: Is it possible to know myself using drugs? We must ask the most impossible question which is to expose and understand in one look, the whole content of consciousness. The mind when it has no answer, has emptied itself. Meditation is seeing "what is" and going beyond it. |
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