Madras 1981

Q1: Your appeal to stand up against the corrupt society like a rock protruding from the mid-stream of the river, confuses me deeply.

Q2: You often switch over from mind to brain. Is there any difference between them?

Q3: Even though I could understand K's words, the message remains vague. What shall I do to understand his message fully?

Q4: Is there really such a thing as transformation? What is it to be transformed?

Q5: You say that one individual can transform the world. In spite of your sincerity, the world has gone from bad to worse. Is there such a thing as destiny?

Q6: Can a teacher inculcate certain decent behaviour in poverty-stricken children who are in need of true education?

Q7: What is the source of thought? How does one go to the very source of thought so that there is a possibility of silencing the thinking process itself?

Q1: Why is it we, medical students, never notice these things in the way you do? Why are we not serious enough to change?

Q2: I have been hurt and have heard you talk about the image being hurt. Can we avoid recording the hurt? Can we get rid of the image? How?

Q3: When I love someone I find myself deeply attached. How can we be so intensely concerned and yet not be attached?

Q4: What is your stand in regard to miracles? Do you deny that you have performed miracles?

Q5: You say one should look at things totally, which is possible only when the brain is attentive. What should I do now to make the brain behave rightly?

Q6: Is there any survival after death? When man dies full of attachments, sorrow, regrets, what happens to this residue?

Salvaging the Brain

Is there an action that is not from experience? Does a clear, unconfused mind ever choose? Isn't fragmentation the essence of corruption?

Why do human beings go through loneliness? Doesn't self-centred activity breed loneliness?

Have you seen the danger of this movement of thought as clearly as you see that of a tiger or cobra?

Is co-operation for gain co-operation at all? Where there is love we know how not to co-operate without bitterness, anxiety, violence.

Are we programmed to think we are individuals? Is there a movement which ends the programming? Hasn't thought created the structure of the "me"?

Critical scepticism is the essence of religion.

Order That Is Not Put Together by Thought

Is our consciousness in disorder? Has thought created disorder in our lives? Is the brain itself in a state of disorder?

What then is the relationship of thought to our daily life?

How does desire arise? Is it a matter of desire to understand truth? Why does desire breed conflict?

How is one to end this movement of creating images all the time?

Why don't we see that thought creates disorder? Is living in disorder the greatest danger? As you listen is there order now in your life?

Can there be order without thought? Is there a learning without time which means immediate perception?

Is Thought the Cause of the Decay of Man?

If the computer takes over will we pursue pleasure endlessly or go inward? Is the brain losing its sensitivity?

Can we look at a person without the image?

Doesn't disorder exist where there is conflict inwardly and outwardly? Knowledge may be the cause of disorder.

Is there a learning without time? What is the art of listening to oneself? Can one see without the word interfering and observe without accumulating knowledge?

When you try to change "what is" aren't you caught in time? Does actual fear have any time or does thought introduce it?

Watching Without Recording

Is freedom associated with a restriction a bondage, a concept, with suffering?

Is there a totally independent freedom not associated with any cause or motive? Can there be freedom within the field of the known?

What is right action in all circumstances? Thought has its own activity - is that intelligence?

Why doesn't the human brain act instantly and reject attachment altogether?

Can one be totally free of fear psychologically? Is fear a movement of time and thought? Can thought end, or not record, the hurt?

Without ending sorrow there cannot be love. When there is love is there death? Is meditation apart from daily life?