Dialogues with 5 Teachers at Brockwood Park in 1979

Set of 3 DVDs

Audio: English

We Have Divided Life as the Outer and the Inner

Audio: English

Q: What is education?

Education should be preparation for the whole of life instead of limiting it to earning a livelihood.

How will you help the student to come to this, to the understanding of the whole of life?

Are we trying to change the human character, the condition of man, from the outside?

Or is it not from the outside, but from inside, inside the skin, psychologically, inwardly?

Or is there no such thing as division, but it is a constant moving, outer and inner?

Can these two streams be brought together?

Have you a relationship with the student?

That means being concerned about his dress, the way he walks, the way he talks, the language he uses, cultivating his taste, manners, politeness, the whole of it - help him to be free of fear, help him to be free.

Duration: 53 minutes.
Video format: NTSC, Black & White.
Region Code: All regions.

The Relationship Between Teacher and Student

Audio: English

Q: What is the cause of corruption?

Human beings have capacity, some kind of hidden talent. Talent is to paint, to play the violin or the flute, or to be a very good human being. So find out your own talent, not imposed by education, by your parents, by society, but find out something that you have for yourself.

Discover your own talent and stick to it, whether you become poor, rich, or successful. But your brain is conditioned by society, so your own talent is destroyed by this pressure.

What is the cause of corruption? If you are interested in yourself, in what you want, in what you must be, if you are greedy, envious, harsh, brutal, then there is corruption.

The real cause of corruption is inside you. Unless you find that out and change that you will be a corrupt human being.

Duration: 56 minutes.
Video format: NTSC, Black & White.
Region Code: All regions.

The Art of Listening

Audio: English

What is the relationship between a teacher and a student, when both realize that they are conditioned?

That we, as human beings wherever we live, are conditioned by society, culture and religion. And part of that conditioning is ambition, which expresses itself in the desire for success.

Is conditioning self-centredness?

If I am prejudiced, if I have a certain point of view and stick to it, I can't listen to you. You may be contradicting my point of view and so I won't listen.

So if I can learn the art of listening, I would solve many problems.

If you are passionately involved, not verbally but wholly, in what you are saying your very passion makes me listen to you.

Duration: 55 minutes.
Video format: NTSC, Black & White.
Region Code: All regions.