Is There Such a Thing as Love? Q: Is it possible to see the whole content of consciousness? Do you love anybody at all not asking anything in return? How can you love when you are concerned about yourself? If you are attached to somebody is that love? Thought because it is fragmentary creates loneliness and it creates attachment which is an escape from loneliness. No attachment means no remembrance of any hurt, of any image. No attachment means there is love. Through negation of what is not love, the other is. |
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Why Is Your Mind Chattering? Q: What is it to be aware and what is attention? A chattering mind is a wastage of energy. What is the nature of thought that it ceases when there is complete attention and arises when there is no attention? The world is in disorder because we are in disorder. Are we aware that we are in disorder? To be aware means to be sensitive. Awareness implies looking with infinite care and affection. Then there is no duality. What is awareness, what is concentration and what is attention? Can you observe without the observer? In attention there is no centre. When there is attention there is no me. |
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Is It Possible To See the Limitation of Thought? Is there an action in our daily life that is skilful yet not perpetuating the self? Can you be free of prejudice, conclusions, beliefs so that you can observe clearly? Giving thought its right place brings about clarity. Our consciousness is that of all mankind. Can that consciousness undergo a radical change? Is desire a distorting factor in observation? Can I put aside authority to look at myself? Why do we have so many desires? Is love the product of thought or time or can love be free of all the taint of civilization, of jealousy, possessiveness, remembrance, the pursuit of pleasure? |
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What Is the Function of the Brain? Is there an observation that does not end in desire? Can we observe the whole movement of desire? Is it possible, psychologically to be free of all fear? What is the psychological root of fear? Is it not time, tomorrow, what might happen and is not time the movement of thought? What is necessary to register and what is not? Is it possible not to register hurt at all but only what is absolutely necessary, which is food, clothes, shelter? What does it mean to remain with loneliness? What is relationship without registration? |
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What Is at the Very Root of Sorrow? We must investigate not only personal sorrow but also the sorrow of mankind. Do we deal with multiple expressions of sorrow or the very root? To do this it is important to observe without distortion. Is the observer different from sorrow itself? Does the word "sorrow" weigh man down? In understanding the cause of sorrow does it disappear? If there is no thought at all when you respond to a challenge is there suffering? Isn't all sorrow based on "me"? Without understanding the whole of life how can you understand what death is? Can the mind end everything while living? |
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Is the Flowering of Goodness a Matter of Time? What is the meaning and significance of meditation? The very enquiry becomes meditation. Does beauty lie in the line of the mountains against the sky or in a sheet of water reflecting the heavens? Is there beauty, not of things, of ideas but beauty in itself, and therefore goodness? Is there such a thing as psychological progress? Can consciousness be aware of itself? Does it reveal its content not bit by bit but in the totality of its movement? If there is no time at all psychologically then is there a "me" who is violent? Is love a matter of time, remembrance? Do you ever wonder what is space? Can there be space without order? |
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