Ojai, USA, 1980

Q1: What is the significance of history in the education of the young?

Q2: Does awareness lead to analysis?

Q3: What is psychological knowledge?

Q4: Why is knowledge always incomplete?

Q5: When one is observing is one aware that one is observing, or only aware of the thing being observed?

Q6: How to eliminate the image?

Q7: Does thought originate as a defence against pain?

Q8: What did Christ say?

Q1: There is a prevalent assumption that everything is relative and a matter of personal opinion, that there is no such thing as truth or fact.

Q2: How can we take responsibility for what is happening in the world while continuing to function in our daily life?

Q3: What is right action with regard to violence, and when faced with violence?

Q4: The hope that tomorrow will solve our problems prevents our seeing the absolute urgency of change. How does one deal with this?

Q5: Are there any psychological needs for which we are responsible in our daily relationship with others? Is there a true psychological need?

Q6: What does it mean to see the totality of something? Is it ever possible to perceive the totality of something which is moving?

Q7: Is there a state which has no opposite and may we know and communicate with it?

Q1: What is true creativity? And how is it different from that which is celebrated in popular culture?

Q2: You said in the very seeing there is action. Is this action the same as the expression of action? Is there a connection and how do they relate to suppression?

Q3: For the making of images to end must thought also end? Is one necessarily implied in the other?

Q4: Is the end of image-making merely a foundation upon which we can begin to discover what love and truth are? Or is that ending the very essence of truth and love?

Q5: Would you please make a definitive statement about the non-existence of reincarnation?

Q1: What is the actual substance of fear; what am I to look at when I look at fear itself? Can this looking take place when fear is not immediately present?

Q2: When one sees no demonstrable, universal principle of justice, I feel no compelling reason to change. I see no criteria to measure the consequences of action.

Q3: Can we die to the self? To find out is a process of choiceless awareness. To observe we must have died to the me. How can I observe in my state of fragmentation?

Q4: What is the relationship of attention to thought? Is there a gap between attention and thought?

The Vitality of the Free Mind

Can we for an hour, and perhaps for the rest of our lives think together, observe the crisis in consciousness and come together to resolve it?

Is the crisis an actuality in our mind, heart, behaviour or is it an idea?

How do you approach your life? Is it conditioned by your background that is, is your approach imaginary?

If you observe the activity of your own brain then it has an extraordinary vitality.

Has the enormous capacity of the brain been narrowed down to the "me"? Having evolved through time does it resist change? Is the activity of the brain broken when you face a crisis?

The Fear of Being Nothing

How do you approach this problem of conflict? Are you aware of it without any choice?

In observation is one discovering the utter emptiness of life?

Is your psyche the image you have built about yourself? Can one be free of the image? Who is the creator of this image?

Is it possible to be free of psychological knowledge and not identify technological knowledge psychologically?

What place has thought which has made this world what it is immoral, ugly, brutal?

You Are Violence

Why has thought invented marvellous things and also created wars, destroyed human beings?

Why has thought made god and the image of god?

Who is the observer who is observing the nature of thinking?

Can the fact be observed without an ideal of it? Is the fact of being violent different from me, my nature, my way of looking?

Can this thing called fear be ended immediately?

Is enquiry argument, opinion or is it observation without analysis?

To meditate is to observe yourself for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

Security in Illusion

How does desire come into being? Why does it play such an extraordinary part in life? Can you observe the movement of desire?

In desire, after sensation, contact what takes place? Can thought not create images at all?

If you are attached to a belief what is its nature, who has created it? By being attached do you feel sufficient in yourself?

Is it an action of will to end attachment or do you have insight into it, and it ends? What happens when you end something?

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the "me"?

Attention Has No Centre

Is fear the very structure of the mind or has thought put fear there?

Can thought which transforms sensation into pleasure not record?

Is suffering to end by an act of will?

Society has become complex and destructive. To change it, don't we have to change ourselves?

Mutation takes place in the psyche when we observe what we are not what we have been or what we should be.

Ending belief, pleasure, desire, effortlessly can we come upon that strange flower called love?

The Energy in Emptiness

Is there an action that is not born out of time that is not the outcome of knowledge?

What is the centre to which the mind, the brain, the form, the name cling?

Can one die to all psychological knowledge and in living be free of attachment which is death?

Can a mind that is not free of illusion and the desire to create illusion go further?

Isn't the word "know" very limited?

What is real yoga and the meaning of mantra?