Can the Drive of Selfishness End? Q: Is it possible for the mind to uncondition completely and not just occasionally think it is free? Can you understand very profoundly whether the mind can be really completely free of conditioning? If it can, then all problems will be resolved economic, social and so-called psychological problems, the outer and the inner. Understand the whole nature and structure of conditioning and be completely free from it. If you have no name and don't identify with your body, have no group, no nationality, no belief, no religion if you discard all that where is the "I" with all its selfishness, ambition? Is it possible to be free of that tremendous drive of wanting to be, to become, to possess wanting to identify with something? Can all that end? |
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What Will Make a Human Being Change Very Deeply? Q: What makes us change? Must one depend on external events to bring change? Pressure outward or inward will not bring radical mutation. Most of us are unconsciously or consciously lonely. Have you seen how loneliness is brought about by self-centred reactions? A mind that is cultured, brought up in a limited sense is not extensive, not universal, global, it is limited, conditioned. Why do I not see the immense danger of the small space of my conditioning? How am I to break down the narrow walls which I have created, which culture has created? When there is non-positive action, it dies by itself when you do not suppress it, or run away; when you are aware of it and don't act because you realize non-action is intelligence. |
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Can Time End? Q: Can consciousness be aware of itself? Meditation has a place in life when there is an enquiry into consciousness. When you smell the perfume of an early morning when the air is clean, washed by the rain is one particular sense awake or are you observing the total delicacy and the beauty of the morning with all your senses? Thought in its momentum is time, the past going through the present modifying itself to be the future. That is the momentum of time and of measurement. Can you live without comparision? Why is it that we are not leaving the past? What does it mean to live completely now? |
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Constant Effort Damages the Brain Q: Can one have a brain that is constantly renewing itself? Is it possible as one grows older to have a brain that is fresh, young, undamaged, a brain that is constantly renewing itself? How can a mind which has never been free which has always worked in patterns have any form of spontaneity? Thought is in motion from the moment you wake and when you sleep. Do we see that thought is mechanical? Why has thought become so important and why is it using up most of our energy? The positive action of thought is the factor of deterioration. The non-action of thought is thought living in its right place. Then the brain can never deteriorate. |
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The Moment You Have Order in Yourself You Become a Danger Q: What do we mean by the word "order"? There is disorder between man and woman in relationship however intimate, however pleasant, however comforting. There is constant struggle between man and woman in their relationship, which is disorder. When you understand the danger of disorder in life, conformity, living in a narrow little groove if you see all that, not verbally, intellectually, but actually see the danger of it, it is finished. If you want to live in order and therefore in harmony with a sense of great beauty, perhaps also peace, then you must have order. That is the art of living which is having put everything in its right place. Are you serious enough, committed enough, dedicated enough to live a life of total order? |
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Can the Structure of Self-centred Concern End? Without any effort, can self-centred concern with its conditioning break down releasing an extraordinary quality of energy? Since every conclusion distorts enquiry into this problem mustn't there be freedom to observe? Does the centre form when thought identifies itself with sensations resisting the vast movement of life? Can one observe the movement of ordinary natural sensations without identifying? Does thought, being in flux and needing security constantly identify with something? If there is freedom to look doesn't that push aside all that is not sane which prevents actual looking? |
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Does Thought Need To Identify with Anything? Isn't identification with a group, idea, belief the essence of being occupied with oneself? Can one exist sanely, harmoniously, without identification, outer or inner? Where there is division outwardly or inwardly there must be conflict. To end conflict totally mustn't one understand the nature of the observer? The observer being the past, accumulated memory can he ever perceive the present? Does fear of being nothing make us identify? Is there an observation of the whole movement of the senses? Does non-identification with another mean the end of love? |
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Isn't Thought Limited in All Circumstances? The individual thinks he is free. Is he actually? Is freedom a permissive activity? If you identify with anything is there freedom? Can thought solve the very problems which it has created? What is the source, the root of all thought? If that is limited isn't the outcome limited? Is registration, memory, the outcome of the past? Is there action not based on thought not limited, confined? Hurt is the movement of thought forming the image. Is it possible not to register hurt? Then new things take place in the brain because there is no need for registration. |
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Is Thought Necessary in Human Relationships? Action based on measurement is limited bound to bring about great sorrow and conflict. Is there an action in which thought as measure, time does not operate? How can I be attentive if I have identified myself with you? Through identification am I escaping from myself? Is analysis different from observation? Non-action is to observe. Can you watch your fears in this manner? Can you observe the movement of time which is thought, the root of fear without trying to do something about it? How can a mind meditate if it is full of fears? |
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Is Love a Movement of Time, Thought, Remembrance? Why do human beings live in disorder from birth until death? Is not conformity, obedience, acceptance the very root of disorder? What is our consciousness? Is it everything that thought has put together? If I am unaware of the content of consciousness when I act, won't it be limited, disorderly? Can one listen to oneself with the same attention one would give to a child? Can one act, function naturally without a centre, without the content of consciousness? What is the meaning and the beauty of love? Is it the movement of the senses with desire? |
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Can Consciousness Go Beyond Itself? Can there be a deep, abiding, irrevocable psychological transformation? Can we, without analysis observe consciousness not at two broken levels, but totally? The totality of consciousness is made up of incidents, accidents, practices, and beliefs. Can it understand what love is? Without effort, can it go beyond itself, become empty, except where knowledge is needed? In you is the whole of man his fears, mischief, arrogance, pride, violence and his sorrow. Does the ending of sorrow in one bring an action in the totality of mankind? If you have ended it actually in daily life then what is death? |
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If You Are Not Occupied, Are You Nothing? If you have a problem psychologically can it end immediately and not carry over? Does the same movement of the brain carry on when we are awake and when we are asleep. Why have we created psychological time? Is truth a matter of experience, knowledge or is it unrelated to thought and memory? Unless everything is in its right place can one find out what meditation is? Can the mind be free of all measurement? The ending of time as thought comes into being only when thought discovers its own limitation. Has attention anything to do with concentration or with awareness? |
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