Ojai, USA, 1985

Q1: Would you please explore further into the mechanism of guilt and its relation to the ego?

Q2: Evolution has brought about physical differences in racial groups. Are there also inherited psychological differences or are they only acquired conditioning?

Q3: It is said that the income from your books does not go to you personally. May one ask how you live, sir?

Q4: Why do you say there is no psychological evolution?

Q5: To live peacefully needs great intelligence. Please enlarge on this.

Q6: You have large audiences the world over. What is it that all of us desire?

Q1: What is the difference between that shyness you have talked about and fear?

Q2: The whole world of nature is in competition to survive. Is it not innate in humans to struggle? Is it not against our nature to change?

Q3: Why has mankind sought god? Is it out of fear and a need for security? Or is there some essential religious instinct in all human beings?

Q4: What is the primary, basic obstacle that prevents observation and insight?

Q5: What is the responsibility to ourselves and others?

Why Is Our House in Disorder?

Is order brought about by ideologies or are they the cause of disorder? Why is there in all of us such conflict, which breeds disorder?

If each of us had complete order in ourselves do you think we would kill another?

What is the cause of conflict? How does division come about?

Is each one so self-centred that that very concern divides?

Can one observe without choice what is going on in ourselves? Is there choice at all when there is clarity?

Can one live without a single ideal or authority so that one lives in order now not tomorrow?

A Crisis in Our Consciousness

Why do we have a sense of guilt, inadequacy and what is its relationship to fear? What is the relationship of time to thought?

Does thinking rely on personal and collective memories? Aren't we a bundle of memories?

Is there fear without time and thought? Can this process, which causes fear, end?

What is the relation of sensation to desire? Can there be an interval between sensation and the movement of desire?

Can one watch every though, not let it go by without understanding why it arose, its cause?

Is there something thought has not touched the limitless, the immense, the nameless?

Creation Is Never-ending

What is there beyond for the individual, and the whole of humanity? What is the root of fear?

Is beauty a sensation? Does not beauty take place when you are not?

Is there a holistic activity of all the senses? Can you look with all your senses all your energy, with all your attention?

Shouldn't we ask if there is an end to sorrow not what happens after sorrow? Can there be sorrow with love?

Is love pleasure, desire, or thought, something that you hold, possess, worship?

Can we totally put aside all that is not love? Is there something eternal, untouched by thought?

Is death the meaning of creation?

The Ending of Continuity

Can there ever be complete, unbroken freedom? Is the cause of disorder in the brain?

What is it to have a religious brain? Can the brain free itself of its conditioning? Aren't observing and acting the same?

Doesn't thought create the thinker? Then who is it that controls thought?

Is the division between the controller and thought the cause of disorder?

What is death and what is it that continues? Isn't death the ending of accumulated memories? Can psychological memories end without effort?

Is there creation without ending? To live with death daily is real freedom and love.

Is there a meditation which is not deliberate?