How Do You Observe Your Fears? Q: Is it possible to be completely secure? If we deeply realize that there is no such thing as psychological security then we would not be in conflict. How do you observe fear? How do you look at yourself? Relationship with another is the mirror in which you see your fear. How does hurt take place? As long as I have an image about myself that image is going to be hurt. When there is inattention the registration of hurt takes place. Attention is like a flame that burns out the past and the present hurt. Then you are free and you blossom in goodness. |
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Can Thought Perceive the Whole? Q: What takes place when there is freedom from thought? Thought has not created nature the trees, the mountains, the river. It is limited, is fragmentary because it is the response of memory. Its movement has created a reality the illusions in which we live. Is the realization of that reality the awakening of intelligence? The awareness of this movement of thought is part of meditation. Is it possible to see wholly? When there is freedom from attachment and images then there is absolute, complete clarity. That means order and with freedom from attachment there is love. |
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A Transformation Which Implies Freedom Can there be a radical transformation in the content of our consciousness? Am I separate from the content of my consciousness? If the observer is the observed what occurs? Can I be totally free of psychological fears? Does fear exist apart from the word, the idea or is it a structure of words, ideas and time? What is the nature of thinking? Can the mind be free of time, idea, and the word? When you observe that fear is you what takes place? When there is complete attention which is complete, total energy then is there fear? All this is meditation. |
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Pleasure Is a Factor of Conditioning Sorrow implies grief, travail, neurotic behaviour all that is in our consciousness. Can one bring about a profound revolution in it? Consciousness is conditioned by three factors fear, pleasure and sorrow. To understand pleasure deeply we must examine closely what is thinking. Is there thinking without the word, the symbol? Can the movement of thought come to an end? What is the difference between pleasure, joy, and ecstasy? Is there pleasure at the moment, or only afterwards? Can you see something beautiful and end it there not let thought pursue it through image, desire? Can the brain not register psychologically and so not give momentum to thought? |
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Is Psychological Time an Invention of Thought? Is there an ideal, the "what should be" different from "what is"? Is it possible to transform "what is" without the idea of time? Is love sensation, contact, thought, desire, image? Can you see a beautiful person, a lovely tree and not allow desire to come into it which is the ending of thought? When there is attachment, hurt is there love? How are love and compassion related? Will it cleanse our hearts because we suffer? What is the relationship of time to death? Can there be an ending of thought while living? |
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Freedom Is the First and Last Step Have pleasure, experience, knowledge, the way we live and at the end die, any meaning? We are asking what is the significance of life? This is part of meditation. Meditation where there is effort, control, practice has no meaning. The mind must have silence for this. In the very psychological structure of the mind is there freedom? Can the mind put aside everything built by thought and begin anew? Such a mind is healthy, sane, holy. Meditation comes only with the complete ending of conflict and of the demand for experience. |
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