Public Meetings in Ojai, California, 1984 (Chinese Subtitles)

Complete set of 4 Public Talks and 2 Question and Answers in Ojai 1984.

Truth Is the Catalyst To End Conflict

Can one approach a problem with a brain that has no problems?

Do I approach a problem freely or with a solution I would like to bring about?

Knowledge and thought being limited must bring about conflict. Has thought any place at all in relationship?

Can one go beyond the word, the description?

Do we look to time to change the structure of the psyche fundamentally?

Love and simplicity are the essence of austerity. Can there be austerity without inward clarity?

Do we ever end anything or merely begin again in a different form?

Subtitles: Chinese

Audio: English

Duration: 83 minutes

Region Code: All regions – Colour

What Is Wrong with Pleasure?

Can one live so that there is constant learning?

What is there to learn apart from technology?

Why have I sought pleasure all my life? What is wrong with pleasure?

Can fear ever end or must it be the burden of humanity

Is your brain passionate enough to find out?

Why has time become so important in our lives?

What is going to happen to the brain when the computer can do almost everything?

How can I stop the movement of time and thought? Is that the right question?

Subtitles: Chinese

Audio: English

Duration: 70 minutes

Region Code: All regions – Colour

Attention Is like a Fire

Since all time is in the now, what is action? What is action in relation to becoming?

Is violence different from the examiner? If I am confused, uncertain can the brain be secure? When the brain is clear, is there choice at all?

Why have we kept death far away from living? To live with death, can you end ambition now? Apart from the physical body, what are you?

If there isn't total psychological change now will tomorrow not be the same as today? When time interferes, action breeds complication.

Can one deal with the fact, not with the idea? Attention is the flame in which sorrow ends.

Is love action in itself?

Subtitles: Chinese

Audio: English

Duration: 81 minutes

Region Code: All regions – Colour

Is Love Part of Consciousness?

What is freedom that is not "from" something, not a reaction?

Is freedom possible when thought is operating all the time? Is thought driven by desire?

When do you perceive the sense of immensity, and the truth of beauty?

Can you look at something with all your senses, fully alive, alert? When there is total attention is there a self?

Can there be a wide interval between sensation and thought creating an image of that sensation?

To understand the depth, greatness, flame of love can jealousy, ambition, aggression, violence end not tomorrow but now?

Subtitles: Chinese

Audio: English

Duration: 81 minutes

Region Code: All regions – Colour

Question & Answer Meeting 1

Q1: There are moments in which there is great clarity. What is necessary to allow such a sustained clarity, intensity and the wholeness of being?

Q2: What is judgement? How is one to determine the line dividing opinion and the perception of fact?

Q3: There are many people who have considerable difficultly with homosexuality. Could you, even briefly, put some light on this question?

Q4: How is one to live on this earth without harm or destruction to its beauty, without bringing suffering and death to others?

Subtitles: Chinese

Audio: English

Duration: 78 minutes

Region Code: All regions – Colour

Question & Answer Meeting 2

Q1: I understand that all people have a similar consciousness, but it seems a vast jump to say that all people share the same consciousness.

Q2: Have you designated a special teacher or a person to carry on your teachings after you have gone? Someone is claiming this position.

Q3: What is observing thought down to its very roots? I watch my thoughts, one leads to another in an endless chain. What ends this? What brings change?

Q4: Please explain what you mean by saying that if one perceives truth and doesn't act, it acts as poison.

Q5: Why is the observance of silence so important for seekers of truth?

Subtitles: Chinese

Audio: English

Duration: 97 minutes

Region Code: All regions – Colour