Brockwood Park 1985

What Was Your Background Like?

Q: What is our relationship to life?

What were your parents like, how did they treat you? What was your relationship to your mother, to your father to your brothers and sisters and what did you feel?

Was your mother merely looking after you or was there a great deal of affection care and responsibility? What was your relationship to the whole thing, life, trees, the grass, flowers and to your parents?

Have you discovered for yourself what your background is what your conditioning is why you think this and not that?

That is where you begin to learn about yourself. You begin to learn about your own way of looking.

There Is Freedom When There Is Learning

Q: What is the difference between learning and accumulating knowledge?

Do you see the difference between memorizing to pass exams, have a skill, get a job, and learning?

When you are learning mathematics or history you are accumulating information it becomes almost automatic.The brain becomes mechanical. You are being programmed when you learn how to dance or to play football. You have been programmed to be a Hindu or a Christian. Do you realize this as a fact?

If, in the same way, you use knowledge of what you have learned about me that becomes a memory then it becomes a barrier and you don't look at me afresh.

Isn't Comparison a Form of Violence?

Will you stop your own violence?

What is non-violence? Are you psychologically violent? Don't you compete?

Hasn't your brain been programmed to compare, to react? Aren't reactions mechanical?

The brain is conditioned to repeat. Can you observe the whole movement of comparison? Can you live without comparison, without competition?

How do you react to what is happening in the world? Can you look without the word?

Isn't learning observing without the word?