Saanen 1985

Q1: Various teachers, gurus say that essentially they are giving the same teaching as you. What do you say?

Q2: What is guilt? One is desperate because the actions that caused guilt can never be eradicated.

Q3: What do you mean by creation?

Q1: When one understands something must one act on this understanding, or does the understanding act of itself?

Q2: You have said many things about violence. Would you allow one of your friends to be attacked in front of you?

Q3: What is intelligence?

Q4: Is there any benefit to the human being in physical illness?

Q5: Why do you differentiate between the brain and the mind?

Q1: I see that thought is responsible for my confusion. Yet in going into it more thought is generated and there is no end to it. Please comment.

Q2: Please speak further on time and death.

Q3: Is it not violence and corruption to have physical security while others are starving?

Q4: How can our limited brain grasp the unlimited, which is beauty, love and truth?

Q5: What is the ground of compassion and intelligence?

Why Does Man Live in Conflict?

Is there a cause for mankind's unceasing inner and outer conflict? Why are human beings all over the world in perpetual conflict with the environment, with their governments?

Why does each human being from the moment he is born till he dies live in conflict?

What is the cause of this conflict not only outwardly but also most deeply, inwardly, subjectively inside the skin as it were?

What is the art of living? Inwardly is it necessary to accumulate memory at all?

To Be Utterly Free of Disorder

What is it to be good?

Order implies no conflict. We realize we are in disorder but we seek order out of it. Should we not instead understand why it exists and whether it is possible to be free of it?

Does conflict exist when there are opposing factors in life the good and the bad?

Experience being limited can I experience the immensity of order of the universe?

Is there something else as active, clear, precise and energetic as thought?

Seeing Self-interest as the Root of Fear

Why have we such deep rooted self-interest? Is self-interest a fence of self-protection to ward off any hurt?

Can you look at yourself without the word?

Are you aware that hurts make a barrier of fear? If you see something clearly you don't have to decide, choose, or ask for help you act.

If you see the cause does not the very perception end the cause?

If thought creates fear then how am I to stop thinking?

Beauty Is the Quiet of the Self Forgotten

Where there is conscious endeavour is there beauty? Or is there beauty only when the self is not?

Psychologically, is it necessary to have any kind of self-interest? Where there is self-interest there must be fragmentation.

Is there an austerity that is not a sensation? When does sensation become desire?

Does sorrow exist as long as there is self interest? Is sorrow engendered, cultivated by memory?

Silence as the Ground of the Eternal

Desire is the result of sensation which thought gives a shape, an image. Is love put together by thought?

If there is no time is there death? Can one be free of attachment completely without waiting for death?

Is religion the things that thought has put together? Is there an absolute, irrevocable truth independent of time, environment, knowledge?

Is there a meditation which has no direction which is not conscious, deliberate?