Myself Is a Living Thing Q: How can I learn about myself? I want to learn about myself without conclusion. Conclusion prevents looking at the fact. There are the observer and the thing he observes, so there is a division between the observer and the observed. When there is an observer there must be division, there must be conflict. I am not a harmonious whole. I am fragmented because I hate, I love, I am ambitious, greedy. The observer is the cause of division. How is the observer not to divide himself? Can the mind respond totally to every challenge, so that there is no conflict and therefore no observer? |
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Listening to Rain Without Thinking about Rain Q: What is the factor of distortion in life? Why does a human being who wants to live a straight, harmonious life gradually go to pieces? What is it that goes wrong? Is it duality the good and the bad, love and hate? Are there opposites psychologically, or is there only one factor? A mind that is acting in the past or in the future, a mind that is caught in nationalism, in any religious beliefs must contribute to war. A mind that does not belong to all this is doing the right thing. |
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Why Do We Cling to Comparison? Q: Can one sustain total attention? When you observe the mountains, the trees, the river or yourself with sufficient attention and therefore energy, the observer with all its conditioning, with its past, is absent. Can one maintain that sense of total attention continuously? Be aware of inattention. Awareness of inattention is attention. We always compare, measure, conform, identify with ideals. The more we identify with something that gives pleasure, the more we are attached to it. What takes place when there is no identification? Then we deal with facts and that gives tremendous vitality. |
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You Are Responsible for a New World Q: How does youth respond to the modern challenge? Young people live and act fragmentarily. Do you see this is unintelligent action? How is the mind to acquire a whole intelligence that will act intelligently in all things? Do you see for yourself this challenge that the house is burning politically, religiously, socially? Do you respond to it wholly intellectually, emotionally, completely see it right away, non-verbally? Why do we see things in words first words being ideas, thoughts, formulas which then become a remembrance? There is an action which is totally complete when there is no ideation or prejudice. Being young can you listen with a mind that is young? |
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You Are Responsible for a New World Q: How does youth respond to the modern challenge? Young people live and act fragmentarily. Do you see this is unintelligent action? How is the mind to acquire a whole intelligence that will act intelligently in all things? Do you see for yourself this challenge that the house is burning politically, religiously, socially? Do you respond to it wholly intellectually, emotionally, completely see it right away, non-verbally? Why do we see things in words first words being ideas, thoughts, formulas which then become a remembrance? There is an action which is totally complete when there is no ideation or prejudice. Being young can you listen with a mind that is young? |
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Conclusions Prevent Looking Q: Is it possible to learn what observation is? Most of us live in ideas, beliefs, concepts. Why does the mind create images, words, opinions, judgements? The mind is lazy. It is easier to live with an image than with a fact. How am I to stop image-making? Looking at a tree as though for the first time its beauty brings tears to your eyes. You see the hills and shadows as you have never seen them before, see your friend, your husband, your wife for the first time. You see yourself without any image and realize that you are nothing. In that there is vast beauty. Then you will know what truth is. |
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You Are Conditioned, Aren't You? Is time needed to be free of conditioning? We use time as measure, both outwardly and inwardly. To learn a technology one needs time. Is time necessary at all for psychological understanding or to be free from habit? The mind, the brain is conditioned religiously, psychologically, socially. Does it take time to break down conditioning? Our whole life is based on conditioning and becomes mechanical. We don't want to think, to observe to go beyond the little narrow field of conditioning and in that lies sorrow. Is it possible at one glance to see the poisonous nature of all conditioning? |
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Can I See Wholly Without Division? Do we act casually expecting division to end in a thousand years as a result of outer environment? Or does change demand immediate attention and action? Does it need collective response or a freeing of the mind from conditioning and in that freedom bringing about a cooperative action? Can one conditioned by the past change totally? Will change come through analysis or is there a totally different approach? Is time needed to have relationship in which there is love, not division? Does one of the many fragments of the "me" assume authority or is the mind free to look? Is there only observation, not investigation? Is there analysis if there are no parts? |
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The Nature of Awareness, Perception, and Insight Not being deeply creative are we not bound to escape from the fact of deep frustration? Is insight there only when the mind is free of belief? Insight without conclusion is creative action. Why does thought draw conclusions from insight and cling to the whole structure of control? Am I not isolated when I resist? Is insight into isolation aloneness? Moving in insight relationship becomes different. Freedom from images is responsibility and love. Doesn't the brain need security to function? Security is in insight which brings intelligence. When you don't compare, what are you? |
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Is Knowledge Necessary in Relationship? Can thought investigate something which is not of time, experience, of knowledge? What is the mind that can enter into that dimension which has no word? Can there be a harmony in which the division between the known and freedom from it does not exist? Is the mind such a slave to words that it cannot see the movement of thought without the word? When used with the "me" will knowledge bring about a better world? When the body dies what happens to thought? If I am aware that I am neurotic is that enough? In that awareness am I insane, am I neurotic? |
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Can the Mind Face Complete Emptiness? Haven't society, the culture, economic divisions created images in us? Can the deep hurts of the human mind be wiped away so that no mark is left? Will it be done through analysis? Who is analysing? Is hurt a problem if you do not move away? Does conflict during the day destroy the brain? Isn't comparison an escape from "what is"? Am I the word, the description, the thought? If I don't compare, what am I? Wanting to cross to the better side of the river becomes a problem. |
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Should a Mind That Is Confused Do Anything? Is sorrow ignorance of oneself? Will the discovery of the cause of sorrow end suffering? How does one go beyond utter loneliness? Can thought as measurement put an end to itself? When belief is threatened isn't there fear? Can the brain have security in which every form of fear has come to an end? Can the mind realize there is no security in the things that thought projects? Is not the insight that thought cannot look at the whole perception of truth? Can the mind invite joy? Can one help another in a crisis? |
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Does Thought Seek Permanence in Identification? Does the mind have any existence apart from the thing to which it is attached? Why does the mind live, act, behave from a series of conclusions of thought? How can I love you if I am attached to you? What is my actual activity with the whole structure of memory which is the past? Can the mind have an insight into conditioning and therefore tremendous energy to change it? How do I communicate love without the word? Is there anything permanent beyond death? |
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Will the Insight of Others Bring Harmony in You? Why have we divided life into spirit and matter? Is religion based on belief, on the insight of the few who have established a church? Can that structure bring about harmony in you? How is the mind to bring about harmony, tremendous energy, clarity? Will any act of desire bring it about? Is the controller different from the controlled? Why do you want any kind of experience? Can the mind and the brain be completely still? Can you know your mind is quiet? Doesn't quietness imply space? Is there something beyond thought, immeasurable? What job will one do if one is serious about life? |
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