The Word is You Q: What is the Nature of Thought? How do we have the passion for this enquiry? Why does the mind form words, symbols, images? Is it the very nature of thought to fragment, the word and the non-word, the action and the formula? When there is division there must be wastage of energy. Are we aware that we always have these formulas, conclusions, opinions? Can the mind be free of words, concepts, formulas? Can the student learn to work with the earth without compulsion or authority, without a formula? Can the mind observe the violence it has brought about in itself silently - without the word? When there is the word there is division, which prevents this extraordinary sense of passion coming into being. Q: What about absolute terror, a phobia? |
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Can the Movement of the Self End? Q: Is there a difference between the observer and the observed? We are so conditioned, so heavily burdened with the past, with all our knowledge, information how can the mind be spontaneous? Can the mind observe its activity without prejudice, which means without images? When there is a division between the observer and the observed there is conflict but when the observer is the observed there is no control, no suppression. The self comes to an end. Duality comes to an end. Conflict comes to an end. This is the greatest meditation to come upon this extraordinary thing for the mind to discover for itself the observer is the observed. |
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Can the Fragmented Mind Be Whole? What is one's relationship to the world? What relationship have our thought and action to something beyond daily life? The world that is outside you, the culture is that culture different from you? Can one transform completely and so bring about a different kind of social structure? Naming a feeling divides the observer from the observed. Division between the observer and the observed is conflict which is a waste of energy. When I realize that I am ambition is there then no conflict and so a summation of energy? How am I to pursue each thought? What does it mean to be aware? If there is choice in awareness, is it total? |
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Why Does the Mind Always Cling to the Known? Does one never penetrate very deeply because thought is always from the outside? In listening do we make an abstraction which we then want to put into action? Knowledge prevents seeing and therefore instant action. Knowledge is destructive in relationship. Can the mind see totally the movement of seeing, sensation, contact, desire so the perception is action? Why is the mind not only avoiding fear but pursuing pleasure? Love is not in the field of the known. Q: What is practical action with regard to oneself and the world? |
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To Live a Life That Is Whole Is perception one fragment seeing others? What is the significance of an observation that is complete, non-fragmentary, not broken up? Isn't consciousness in which thought acts, "me"? Can one be free of the content of consciousness? Can my consciousness which is the "me" end now? What happens to a such a mind? What is relationship when there is no image? Is love the pursuit of yesterday's pleasure? Is it fear, jealousy, anxiety, attachment? Is love the product of thought? Is it possible to observe the content of consciousness without the movement of time? |
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Is There Anything Truly Holy, Sacred? Is order organization the structure the mind has created? Is order a blueprint to conform to? Disorder comes into being when there is fear and the pursuit of pleasure. Is the demand for experience disorder? The flowering of order is virtue, which is the foundation for meditation. Is there time as movement, as thought when there is only observation of "what is"? Psychologically is there evolution? If everything is of time isn't life shallow? Can one come upon the sacred without total order in oneself? When the mind has this strange thing called compassion it is sacred. |
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