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Why do we seek a method or technique? - 21 August 1949.
• The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don't adequately meet that problem.
• Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness.
• The means and the end are not separate.
• Reality or God is something that cannot come by a technique, a means, or through a long, determined practice...
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The ground of being, and the mind of man, 12 April 1980.
Why has having ideas become so important? What is the difference between a religious mind and a philosophic mind? What is the human mind's relationship to the 'ground'? Why has man accumulated knowledge? When you love somebody there is no 'me', it is love. In the same way, when I say I am human, it is so. It is not an idea, it is not a conclusion, it is part of me.
There is only one thing...
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A mind in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator - 17 February 1971
• If you can put aside your favourite systems, if you can understand that concentration is merely a resistance and therefore constant conflict and wastage of energy, then we can find out for ourselves what is necessary for a mind that is in a state of meditation.
• To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
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Thought is the cause of fear - 10 November 1968
• Though we have plenty of energy, apparently we lack the drive, enthusiasm, vitality to bring about a change in ourselves.
• As long as there is fear there must be violence, aggression, anger, hatred.
Thought is the source of fear.
• Is it possible to live everyday life without thought interfering?
• Thought is always old. When you worship thought you are worshipping something that is dead.
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Learning is action - 12 November 1968
• Our education is concerned with the accumulation of knowledge.
Very few of us are capable of living a life without the influence of specialists.
• What is the point of going to a university, getting a degree and disappearing into the vast structure of society?
• Q: How shall we approach the idea of study?
• If you express from something already accumulated it is a deadly bore, but if you are all the...
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Cleansing the mind of the accumulation of time - 2 April 1980
• Time is the enemy of man.
• Is there a beginning which is not enmeshed in time?
• We said nothingness is everything and so it is total energy. It is undiluted pure, uncorrupted energy. Is there something beyond that?
• Has man ever been free from the 'I'?
• That emptiness can only exist when there is death of the particular.
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1. Does self-knowledge come through searching? - 16 July 1949
• What is it that most of us are seeking?
• Does clarity come through searching and trying to find out what others say?
• Can incessant search and longing give you the extraordinary sense of reality or creative being that comes when you really understand yourself?
• Without knowing your background and the substance of your thought, where it comes from, surely your search is utterly...
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Love is that quality of mind in which there is no division - 14 February 1971
• To live in this world with intelligence, in spite of all the complications.
• Is it possible to be free of fear, not only the superficial fear in relationship but the deep-rooted fear?
• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
• When you are learning, your mind is awake.
• Truth isn't second-hand, you can't get it through a guru,...
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Can human problems be solved? - 27 September 1980
• Why have human beings throughout the world not been able to resolve human, daily problems of life? What are the things that prevent the solution of these problems completely?
• When there is attention there is no centre from which I attend.
• A poor man wants to be rich and a rich man wants to be richer. It is a movement of becoming, becoming, both outwardly and inwardly. Though it brings...
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What is the substance of thought? 25 July 1975
What is the basic reason for thought to be fragmented? What is the substance of thought? Is it a material process, a chemical process? There is a total perception, which is truth. That perception acts in the field of reality. That action is not the product of thought. Thought has no place when there is total perception. Thought never acknowledges to itself that it is mechanical. Total perception can...
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A radical transformation in the psyche itself - 8 November 1968
• To communicate we must know that the word is not the thing and also be in that state of mind whose quality is attention, care. That can only take place if we are serious.
• We are the world and the world is us. To bring about a radical transformation, which is so essential in society, there must be radical transformation in ourselves.
• Analysis of violence does not end violence,...
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Why has desire become such an extraordinarily important thing in life?
• How does desire arise from perception?
• Can I desire truth?
• Is the energy of nothingness different from the energy of things?
• Is that nothingness a hypothesis, a theory, a verbal structure, or truth?
• In dying to the reality only then there is nothingness.
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Attention implies the total abandonment of the 'me' - 6 March 1971
• Can the mind undergo a radical revolution?
• How do you observe the world?
• What solves our human problem is observing the whole process of ourselves without judging, condemning, translating or rejecting — just to observe.
Question topics following the talk include: being disturbed in order to know, being confused, transcendental meditation.
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10. Without self-knowledge there cannot be complete action - 14 August 1949
• Can we act without ideation?
• Immortality is not an idea. It is something beyond ideation, thought and the bundle of memory which is all the 'me'.
• Love is not a thought process.
• Q: What place has criticism in relationship?
• Q: When you speak of timelessness, it seems you must mean something besides a sequence of events. Do you perhaps mean that by knowing...
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Is it possible to end the thousand yesterdays? - 13 November 1968
• Living together amicably, creatively, in complete relationship with one another — if that is what is essential then we need not only a different kind of mind but also a different quality of affection, love.
• What is the function of a religious mind?
• Our struggle in life is dualistic: good and bad, right and wrong, holy and unholy, the ideal and the fact. There is only...
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IF WE MAY, we will continue with what we were talking about yesterday. When you look at a field stretching out to the horizon - a field of tulips - words come into your mind: how beautiful it is, the colour, the brilliancy, the texture, the depth of the colour. This whole field of colour with its beauty is put into words. Or you translate it in terms of some symbol, or you want to write about it, paint it, carry some of those flowers back to your...
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The intelligence of love - 16 September 1980
• Can the mind, brain, the whole psychological structure ever be free from all conflict, from all shadow of disturbance?
• Thought is the outcome of psychological accumulation. That accumulation gives a sense of continuity, which is time.
• Why do all human beings throughout the world have the urge to become?
• In accumulation man has sought psychological security, and that security with its accumulation...
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Does learning require thinking, or only awareness?
• To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observe outwardly and also our inward reactions.
• Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the free flow of energy.
• You see that you have many opinions and conclusions.
• You don't know whyyou have them or how to be free of them. Start with not knowing.
• Knowledge is in the past...
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Is thought detrimental? 15 August 1965.
Why does one seek pleasure? Can the mind only face facts and not thought? Why have I never said, 'Thought is poison,' to myself? Meeting something one doesn't know, facing something which has no answer. Acting without knowing.
• What is a state of mind which is silent?
• Time is detrimental.
• Are we twisting everything to our core of pleasure?
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