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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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Attention implies that there is no centre - 22 June 1975
• Consciousness, because it is in constant movement, has never found an energy which is not contradictory, which is not produced by desire and thought.
• Can thought ever see its own movement and the futility of its own movement?
• Attention implies that there is no centre.
• Is there a perception, a seeing outside the space which is part of consciousness?
• There are two human...
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Senility and the brain cells, 1 June 1980.
Is the human brain deteriorating? The human brain is not particular, it doesn't belong to me or anyone
else, it is the human brain that has evolved for millions of years.
Can the brain not only be aware of its own movement but can the brain itself have enough energy to break all patterns and move out of it?
Is psychological knowledge not in itself a factor of the shrinking of the brain? The ending of suffering...
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What is the relationship between attention and lack of attention? - 3 August 1974
• We are educated to follow, accept and conform. This is tradition, second-hand.
• When you become aware of conformity without reaction is that awareness the act of intelligence?
• Does the mind realize the nature of conformity, intelligence and awareness?
• I am attentive for a minute and there is no border, no time, no 'me', no problem. The whole energy is...
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Freedom of choice is not freedom, 11 November 1968.
What do we mean by free will? Is there such thing? Is choice ever necessary? Freedom exists only when I perceive very clearly when the mind sees things as they are.
• Is it possible to be free in society?
• Is love the absence of hate?
To find out what truth is you must be free of propaganda: the propaganda of the Church, the propaganda of literature, propaganda of tradition, so that you see...
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What is a chaste mind? - 4 August 1974
• The word 'chaste' means pure, clean, untouched.
• Have we a chaste mind, a mind that has not been hurt, has no image, is free from the pleasure of yesterday and is innocent?
• Is chastity a quality of the mind?
• Can the mind be free of the word, symbols and the condemnation and approval of the word?
• What is the nature of the mind when there is no attempt through will or desire for any way out...
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Can insight be awakened in another? - 19 April 1980
• What is the relationship to society of a man who has insight? What is his action
with regard to war and the whole world?
• Q: What is the significance of mankind in the universe, or in the 'ground'?
• 'Y' is concerned with 'Show me, prove it to me, what benefit it has, will I get my future...
And he is looking at 'X' with the eyes that are so accustomed to this pettiness. He reduces that...
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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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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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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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Is there such thing as free will? - 31 May 1967
• Is freedom partial?
• Why should I be bound to destiny? Born in India with the tremendous cultural traditions, why should I be caught in it?
• Man is more important than the frame into which he is put.
• Is it possible for a human being to free himself from society, psychologically?
• Human beings have to change, and will thought change us?
• Man is society, has created the society in...
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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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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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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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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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Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? - 11 October 1975
• Thought and the brain.
• Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion?
• Why has the self become important?
• Can there be only sensation, thought, and no desire?
• Can desire - which brings illusion, self-deception and all the complications of changing desires — can the root of desire be dissipated?
• What prevents one from having a real insight? That is, seeing...
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