Conversation with Dr. Jonas Salk, Ojai, California, 27th March, 1983 Duration 61 min. in ColourRef: VTOJ83CJS
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What Is the Future of Our Children? Q: Is there going to be a fundamental change in the psyche, in the whole consciousness of mankind? There are very few people who are really concerned, committed to discovering if there is a different way of living to find out if we can live on this earth globally peacefully, without killing each other endlessly. Can the individual conditioned, shaped, impressed, and influenced by society, by language, by literature, by newspapers ever step out of it? Do I see myself not theoretically but in the mirror of relationship with my wife, my friends, how I behave, how I think and in that relationship begin to see what I am? Can there be compassion in my relationship with the rest of humanity? Compassion cannot be put together by thought. |
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1st Question & Answer Meeting, Ojai, California, 17th May, 1983 Duration 86 min. in ColourRef: VTOJ83Q1
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Q1: What is the role of the artist in life? What is the significance of music, poetry and all art in our relationship to each other and the world? Q2: Is not the observation of thought a continuing use of thought and therefore contradiction? Q3: You refer to marriage as that terrible institution. Could you elaborate? Q4: You have said that quietness, silence comes unsought. But can we live in ways that will allow it to come more readily? Q5: Is there such a thing as a true guru? Q6: Is there ever a right use of mantras? |
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2nd Question & Answer Meeting, Ojai, California, 19th May, 1983 Duration 108 min. in ColourRef: VTOJ83Q2
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Q1: Why don't you be more practical and not so abstract in what you are saying? Q2: Most of my energy and time goes into the struggle to earn a living. Is it possible for me to be deeply unselfish and intelligent? Q3: I must stay with my family in one place. How am I to have this global vision? Q4: You have stated that if one stays with fear and not try to escape and realize one is fear, then fear goes away. How does this come about? Q5: Is it some lack of energy that keeps us from going to the very end of the problem? Does this require special or basic energy? Q6: Could you go into the nature of intelligence which manifests itself when perception takes place and is this the only true source of action? |
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1st Public Talk, Ojai, California, 14th May, 1983 Duration 80 min. in ColourRef: VTOJ83T1
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You Are a Bundle of Memories You are thought, aren't you? Can that thought be aware of itself? What is one to do with thought that has brought about this disorder? Who is to put order in the world? Is it possible to live in relationship without a single shadow of conflict? Is relationship based on memory? Is accumulated knowledge of each other love? What is the relationship between an intelligent man and a stupid man? When conflict ends does it imply that there is a sense of love? Can there be peace between human beings whatever their colour, race, language, culture? |
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2nd Public Talk, Ojai, California, 15th May, 1983 Duration 89 min. in ColourRef: VTOJ83T2
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Why Have Human Beings Become like This? Is man condemned to live in conflict forever? Is non-violence a fact or imaginary conclusion a reaction to the fact of violence? Can violence, envy, greed, fear end? Who is the observer and who is the observed? Should we not understand the nature of fear? Because out of fear we have created gods. Are thought and time at the root of fear? What does being conditioned mean? What causes the brain to be conditioned? Is there a security which is not of time which is not put together by desire? What happens to your brain that is conditioned to be attached when it discovers there is no security in all this? |
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3rd Public Talk, Ojai, California, 21st May, 1983 Duration 90 min. in ColourRef: VTOJ83T3
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Ending Without Any Motive Why have religions said we must suppress desire? Does desire come out of sensation when thought creates the image? The understanding of desire is intelligence which will discipline desire. Isn't the psyche the recording of incidents? Why should the psyche record at all? Can there ever be an end to human misery? If I suffer, how can I love? Can there be compassion if I am attached to an ideal? If you are chattering about silence and beauty you fail to understand both. Unless the complexity of the "me" is understood is our attitude to death intelligent? |
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4th Public Talk, Ojai, California, 22nd May, 1983 Duration 71 min. in ColourRef: VTOJ83T4
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To Watch Without Any Movement of Thought Why do we compare psychologically at all? Can we live without comparison? Who is the controller who controls thought? Is not the controller part of thought? Will equality come through laws or is it established only through compassion? Can the brain cells themselves be transformed? Hasn't thought created all gods? Is there something sacred beyond thought, time, and measure? To meditate must not psychological comparison end? |
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