You Can Learn Only If You Do Not Know Q: Does learning require thinking or only awareness? To be aware is to be conscious, to be in contact in relationship with what you observe. To be aware outwardly and also of our inward reactions. My awareness reveals I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the free flow of energy. You see you have many opinions, conclusions. You don't know why you have them or how to be free of them. So you start with not knowing. Knowledge is in the past while learning is vital, in the present. In learning, which is a constant movement, can opinion, conclusion ever be formed? Can thought be slowed down naturally? In learning about the function of thought, slowing down takes place without control, without effort. Can the mind empty itself without effort? Q: Do LSD and other drugs slow down the mind? |
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The Action of Intelligence Q: Why do we not see the division between the observer and the observed? How does the division come about that causes conflict and misery? Are we aware that we are fragmented? Why does contradiction exist? One of the factors is ideals, another is comparing myself with another. How can we have a mind that is not fragmented, contradictory? Can the mind live without comparison? The brain, the mind has seen that god, nationalities, religious divisions are disastrous for human relationship. What is the capacity that makes the brain see that? Is that awareness? Is that intelligence? What is that intelligence to do? What is its relationship to all that is taking place? Intelligence operating has its own action. When there is that intelligence, there is sanity. Is this intelligence operating in you? |
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Complete Freedom from Thought Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? Can thinking, however rational bring about a psychological revolution in us? Isn't thought always conditioned? Is freedom the non-existence of thought? My very being is related to thought. If you want to see something new what do you do? To have insight, let go of the old and listen. Learning is not memorizing. Q: Is feeling another way of thinking? Q: Isn't the need to love and be loved essential? Needing love is love of self. |
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If I Don't Change Now What Will the Future Be? Is thought responsible for fragmentation? Does fragmentation have its own activity? What is the energy that perceives the total and doesn't live in fragmentation? Does comparison brings about fear and pleasure? Is thought seeking security in belief, dogma? How am I to wipe away unconscious fears? Can the mind learn instantly all the content of the unconscious in which there are deep secret fears? Doesn't analysis imply time, division? Is consciousness separate from its content? To get at the root of fear means learning about not being. Q: What about guilt? |
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If Freedom Is Responsibility, How Do I Act? Q: What is the action that will be an adequate response, a total response to the world around us, of which we are part? Can one respond totally without learning about love and death in relation to daily life? Do we live or do we tolerate living?Do we live according to ideas, conclusions based on a belief, a dogma, a memory? Is there an action which dissipates all images? Is relationship in which there is no image, love and relationship in which there is the image, disorder? Can a mind seeking comfort learn about death? Find out whether death is something to be avoided or to be lived with naturally. Can the mind free itself from the known? Q: What relationship has literature, beauty, art to our daily life? Q: Were you conditioned by the Masters? Q: Can one help someone in distress? |
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To Come Upon the New, Thought Must Be Quiet If one is serious, one must learn for oneself if there is such a thing as the immeasurable. Thought cannot find it because thought is measure, time. Can thought, realizing its limitations, be quiet? Can the mind without effort see its content clearly and the limitation, the lack of space the time-binding quality of its consciousness? When you say, "I do not know" does the content have importance? There are various systems of meditation, gadgets, Yoga, to make the mind quiet. They are unimportant. Is the very perception of the false, truth? When the mind has perceived the truth of something then what is time? Is there then a different dimension which thought cannot touch? |
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