Q: Can we discuss the control of government and our day-to-day life? How will you bring about a cessation of the power of the few, and educate or help the vast majority? In history, only very few individuals bring about a change. Will you have the energy, capacity, drive, the love to bring about a different world? We have accepted the illusion that we are living when we are separate. Are you aware of this division and its consequences? Why has this division existed, why has man accepted it and how has it come into being? Can you observe your wife or your husband without the memory of the past intruding? When you do look in that way, is there no observer, only observation? So we are saying is this possible, not in theory but actually, in daily life? |
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Can You Understand What a Religious Life Is? Q: Has tradition and culture any part in a religious life? The word "religion" means to gather, gather all your energy to enquire into what is truth and what is reality, to enquire if there is an end to sorrow, and to enquire into what is love, and whether one can live without any effort and control. You can only find what life is, which may be eternal, or nonsensical, or extraordinary when you understand your living, daily living, and from that daily living understand the beauty of life. Why does the brain form habits, which is tradition, whether it is ten days old, or ten thousand years old, why does it do it? The brain can only function in security. Is there such a security? Will you throw away your illusions, throw away your habits, because you see the reason, the logical consequence of forming habits? |
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An Action That Is Not the Outcome of Thought Is there an action which is not fragmentary which has no regrets, no sense of incompleteness? Is there security in the things of thought? Is all psychological security an illusion? Can one attend without concentration, effort? Doesn't the very thought which concentrates also distract? Have you ever given attention in which there is no otherness, deviation or distraction? To attend implies there is no centre from which you are listening. When you have an insight into the nature of thought it finds its right place. |
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Is Freedom a Matter of Time? Is there psychological time at all? Then how do we deal with a problem? Is time involved in love? Is time, a movement in division, necessary? Can we change fundamentally, radically not through evolution, time? Can hurt be abandoned instantly? Can one act without effort, without time? Is there a perception which ends the image without allowing time? What takes place when you observe only the fact and do not invent the opposite? Can you resolve a problem as it arises? Are problems produced from a centre? |
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What Brings About Disorder in Relationship? What is our relationship with each other? In that relationship, is there order? How will you bring order there? Is desire the sensory responses with images thought has created a factor of disorder? When pain is over can one totally forget it, totally non-register it? When there is no relationship isn't there fear? Are you aware at the moment of fear not to let thought come into it to realize it has no place at the moment of action? Why has there been so little beauty and communication with nature in our lives? At the instant of pleasure is there recording? Isn't culture, growth in the totality of one's life? |
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What Is a Religious Mind? Have the gods been created from our sorrow, fear? In an enquiry, are you free of fear? Freedom is observation without conclusion. Can you observe the whole nature of sorrow? When there is no motive in your examination is sorrow different from you? Can a new culture only be born out of a religious mind? Isn't the only revolution psychological transformation? A religious mind has no philosophy because it is with that which is eternally sacred. Doesn't sorrow have to end to understand the religious mind? |
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The Movement of Meditation Putting death in opposition to life are we afraid to live and afraid to die? Attachment implies continuity, does it not? If it does not end what happens to the whole movement of consciousness of man? Is love within this consciousness? Has love a continuity? Isn't death the ending of attachment? When there is complete order in one's life, that can look at cosmic order. What are attention, inattention, and distraction? Does attention have continuity, a centre? In silence comes that which is eternally, timelessly sacred. |
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