Is There an Instrument Other Than Thought? Q: How is thought to end completely? All cultures have given importance to thought. We say thought is the only instrument we have handed down to us generation after generation. Why limit the instrument to thought only? There is a tremendous necessity to find another instrument. Can thought be silent when the mind is observing? My concern is to observe and that is prevented when there is any movement or flutter of thought. Attention is given totally and so thought does not enter into it. When I am looking completely nothing outside exists. Can I look without a wave of thought? Observe the world and nature. Observe everything including your own desires without a single movement of thought. |
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Can the Mind Live Wholly in the Present? Q: Why is it so difficult to be free from attachment? Why is the mind attached to an ideal, to a nationality, to a person, to experience, opinions, gods? Why does the mind cripple itself with all these attachments? Is attachment a living thing that is going on or is it a remembrance of the past? If it is a continuation of the past what is relationship between two people? When you realize that tomorrow is what has been yesterday, modified, then you see you are living in the past and there is conflict with the present. To end conflict at the very roots of your being to realize there is no tomorrow then your whole action changes. Every day is an ending of everything. |
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Why Divide the Outer from the Inner? Q: How to put the feeling of responsibility into action? Everybody approaches a problem from the outer to the inner and the inner to the outer. It is an endless ebb and flow. Who has created this division? Have the priest, the philosopher created this structure as the outer and the inner and we are educated in that and are caught in it? Division takes place when there is an image in the mind. Responsibility is to free yourself of those images absolutely. When you feel the responsibility the flame of that will burn the image. To see the world as it is and ourselves as we are, not a division between the world and me, and me and you. Then responsibility begins to awaken. |
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Conformity is a Factor of Corruption Q: What is the relationship between attention and lack of attention? We are educated to follow, to accept to conform. All that is tradition, being second-hand. When you become aware of conformity without reaction is that awareness the act of intelligence? Does the mind realize the nature of conformity intelligence and awareness? I am attentive for a minute and there is no border there is no time, there is no me, there is no problem. The whole energy is involved in that attention. For the mind that is a tremendous movement. Attending, I can do things without effort, without thought. Then the mind gets tired and moves to inattention. Now in that state of inattention action has to go on and must be conditioning. The moment the mind is aware that it is inattentive there is attention. |
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What Is a Chaste Mind? The word "chaste" means pure, clean, untouched. Have we a chaste mind? A mind that has not been hurt that has no image created by the senses a mind that is free from the pleasure of yesterday a mind that is really innocent? Is chastity a quality of the mind? Can mind be free of the word the symbol and all the condemnation and approval of the word? What is the nature of the mind when there is no attempt through will or desire for any way out through the known? Then what does the mind do? If you are really serious not just with words but burning with the responsibility of it then you ask whether the mind can ever be free from the known? |
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The Art of Looking and the Art of Listening In the world around and inside of us is there a relationship between the inner and the outer? Do you listen with interpretation, prejudices or are you free to listen? Do I observe the content of my consciousness as an outsider? Can one observe the content without choice? If you look with eyes that are always divided is there not conflict between you and another? Isn't division between the observer and the observed conflict? Is it intelligence for thought to create and maintain division while talking about peace? Is there an intelligence which is not cunning which is not the function or result of thought? |
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Is There Energy Not Based on Idea or Ideology? Why is thought on which social morality is built divisive? The desire to change in a particular direction gives an energy that is divisive. Will you free the mind taking time through analysis? Or can you look totally and therefore be totally free? Does choiceless rejection of the false give a different kind of energy? If I had no foundation would I go wrong or is the very negation of foundation intelligence? Is the operation of intelligence insight? |
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Can Thought Bring Absolute Order? Aren't our thoughts, feelings, reactions, relationships merely mechanical? For such a mind is there any other movement? Where there is a cause there is time and living becomes relative. Is my relationship with another based on opinions, memories, demands, my sexual appetites and so it is relative? Is there a way of living which has no cause? Do I actually see disorder or only its description? Is it only when the "me" is non-existent that I am related? What takes place when the mind has order and a sense of total relationship? Can the mind be free of the word and look and discover its disorder? |
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Can the Mind Not Be a Slave to Knowledge? When consciousness invents a super-consciousness is it not a part of thought, aware of the past? Is there a part of the brain which has not been touched by the known? Is it our education to escape from "what is" through ideals? Has the mind been trained, educated to operate and function in the field of the known? Observing the movement of thought, its source can one come upon something beyond thought? From there can the mind function in knowledge? To see the reality and non-reality of knowledge and to function in that is time required? |
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Wisdom Comes Through the Understanding of Suffering Do we respond to the whole field of existence? Must there not be love to do that? To love, to be responsible for the whole one must go beyond suffering. Can we know the nature, structure and function of suffering? Is isolation one of the major causes of suffering? Isn't attachment, which denies freedom, a cause? In the love of the whole the particular comes in but not the other way around. Can we be sensitive to or know beauty if we are psychologically hurt? Can the mind be aware of its hurt not reacting at the conscious or the unconscious level? |
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Are You Seeking Security in a Concept? Love, compassion is denied totally when you seek security in neurotic concepts. Is there permanent security in relationship? Can the mind be sane, healthy, whole act totally when it realizes there is nothing permanent? What is the relationship of time which is distance, movement to thought? Does the mind need time to transform itself? What is your relation to death? Is it romantic or is it a total relationship? Knowing nothing about an unconditioned mind can you look at your conditioning without the movement of its opposite? |
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Relationship, Order Are Essential for Meditation Have the world and its activity based on thought bred fear? Can hidden fears and the subtle forms of pleasure be exposed through analysis? What is a mind to do when it sees the falseness of analysis, of introspective examination? Is the controller different in nature from what he says he is going to control, which is thought? Can the mind empty itself of time, direction, movement which is the ending of thought? What place has knowledge in meditation? Meditation is to discover an area in which there is no movement of thought. Can thought and meditation live together harmoniously, daily, in action? Is the speaker teaching you higher knowledge? All the speaker is saying is: watch yourself. |
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