Discussions with Students at Rishi Valley School, India, 1985

What is the Taste of Fear?

Subtitles: Chinese
Audio: English

What is fear? What is the feeling that you have when you are frightened? And what is the motivation, what starts fear? What is the cause, the root, the basis of it?

People have gone to war, killed each other on account of fear. As long as nationalism, racialism, tribalism exists, you are going to kill somebody or somebody will kill you. If you have no nationality, then what do you identify with?

Our life is entangled, is concerned with time. The past controls the present and the present is shaping the future. So the future is now being formed. Is there a way of being free of time?

Duration: 66 minutes.
Video format: NTSC, Colour.
Region Code: All regions.

Thinking About Myself All Day Long

Subtitles: Chinese
Audio: English

Why is our mind so cluttered up with thought?

My brain is full of knowledge: absurdities, imaginations, illusions, and this whole thing is "me".

The brain contains all that which you have learned. It is full of memories. You are always living in a circle; a circle of what you have learned and acquired as information, which becomes knowledge.

What is the origin, the beginning of thought? The word is not the actual. Is there a way of thinking without all the memories of the past? Can our mind ever be quiet?

Duration: 66 minutes.
Video format: NTSC, Colour.
Region Code: All regions.