ENDING OF TIME No. 9: Senility and the Brain Cells
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ENDING OF TIME No. 10: Cosmic Order
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An Order Beyond All Human Order and Disorder Is there an order which is universal? Nature is in order unless man interferes. Bringing order in ourselves is a very small affair. Isn't the attempt of the mind to measure itself the source of disorder? Isn't the "me" the source of disorder? Consciousness is made by man in the general and in the particular. The man-made mind is limited, illusory. Can there be an insight that transforms the man-made mind? That insight means the wiping away of all the content of consciousness. What is meant by a mind that is beyond limit? What relationship does this mind have to the human, man-made mind. What relationship does love have to hatred? |
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Can Insight Uncondition the Mind? Is there security in accumulation? The movement of accumulation brings division. Isn't insight a totally different movement? The general and the particular are one they are not divided. Isn't the outward urge to accumulate carried inward? One accumulates memories, experiences, knowledge hoping to be secure. Psychological accumulation is time and thought. You cannot accumulate love. Can intelligence break down the wall built by accumulating? |
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ENDING OF TIME No. 11: The Ending of "Psychological" Knowledge Is it enormously difficult to be free of knowledge? Accumulated knowledge forms a groove in which I live. Isn't energy dissipated by living in a groove? Can listening break down the wall built by accumulated knowledge? Will only a few, the discontented listen? Will insight break down this wall? Doesn't insight become an idea through knowledge? Does communication come from knowledge or from freedom? Can you listen with opinions? When I listen, my mind is empty. Emptiness is the source from which all life begins. |
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ENDING OF TIME No. 12: The Mind in the Universe What is an empty mind? The mind is the whole material process. Can the mind be completely empty of all the things which thought has put together? Is this emptiness within the mind itself? Or beyond it? That emptiness has no centre. In that emptiness there is a movement of timeless energy. Thought has a beginning and an end. Is there a movement with no beginning and no end? A movement which is not a movement? To understand that I must be free of the movement of thought. Is the mind capable of that extraordinary stillness? Is the movement out of stillness the movement of creation? There is the universal mind and the human mind can be of that when there is freedom. |
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ENDING OF TIME No. 13: Can Personal Problems Be Solved and Fragmentation End? Why have human beings not been able to solve their problems? Do we think together by sharing opinions? Why cannot people in any country, in any nation work together? How do I help my brother? Why are we divided when there is no security in fragmentation? Is there complete security in nothingness? Can we stand alone? Becoming breeds inattention. Through discussing inattention can we discover what is attention? Is attention the factor necessary for change? Can the mind go very deeply into itself and perhaps come upon the purity of compassion, love, and intelligence? |
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Q1: Why do you have schools and foundations? Q2: Why do you speak? Q3: Is it always wrong or misguided to work with an enlightened man and be a sannyasi? Q4: Why am I responsible for the whole world? Q5: My urgency to change fades when I go home. What can I do? Q6: Is suffering necessary to make us face the necessity to change? Q7: My problem is I have a ten-foot wall around me. What am I to do? Q8: I derive strength from concentrating on a symbol. Is this an illusion? |
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Q1: How does thought relate to consciousness? Why do we seem unable to go beyond thought? Q2: Does compassion spring from observation or thought? Is not compassion an emotional feeling? Q3: Why is it that in the balance of nature there is always death and suffering? Q4: Why do you say attachment is corruption? Are we not attached to those we love? Q5: Can a minority of integrated people outweigh the majority that seem to be heading for destruction? Q6: Are Christian mystics deceiving themselves when they say they have made union with god? And what is faith? Q7: If there is a supreme truth and order, why does it allow mankind to behave in such a shocking way? Q8: Being a member of a Gurdjieff group has helped me to better understand you. Should I continue with such a group to possibly help others? Q9: What is freedom? |
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Can One Live Without Fragmentation? Realizing I am the world what is my responsibility? What is our responsibility to all of mankind and what is the right action in this insane world? Is one's whole life an illusion a constant battle, confusion and sorrow? Can the brain change its whole structure its whole nature? Can we observe the activity of our own brains? It is the brain of mankind. Can fragmentation brought about through attachment, ideas, and images be totally set aside so that there is a different way of living with love and a great sense of compassion? To live in images is the very essence of a destructive way of life. What will make me let images fall away? |
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Images and Desire in Relationship Are we separate entities trying to be related? Why does the division exist? Does division exist because of the word because of culture? Is it possible to live together without a single image about another, to live in the actual world of relationship between man and woman without any division? Can the brain, the most important factor in our life change itself completely? Why should the brain register insult or flattery? Is it possible to end the building of images? Can insight take place only when knowledge ends? When there is observation without direction are the brain cells transformed? |
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Inner and Outer Disorder and Division Where there is division there must be conflict. Why have people divided themselves religiously and through nationalism? Is world disorder different from our disorder? Is this division and confusion different from the observer who is observing it? Why does the mind accept and live with disorder and a sense of division? In complete attention, is there confusion? Can we examine fear, pleasure, and suffering not separately but as a total movement of life? Are you separating yourself from the fact of fear? |
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Can a Religious Mind Come About? Can I in living end my anxiety, my fears? Can "what is" be transformed immediately? Why does the mind demand experience? Why have we not the demand to live a tremendously diligent life? Do we banish the demand for truth? Is the mind caught in time because it moves away from the fact? Can we be free of non-fact and live with facts? Does the constant struggle to become wear out the cells of the brain? Can the mind not being hurt keep young, and never grow senile? Why is the human mind caught in psychological time? Why has man always talked about religion? Is meditation the practice of a system? Why have we made meditation so unnatural? |
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