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Conflict Conflict is between the actual and the myth. To understand that which you are, the myth, the ideal, the self projected future state, must entirely cease. The action of conflict has its own energy, which is divisive… But the energy of perception and acting is entirely different. And that energy is the energy of creation. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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Change Unless there is a radical revolution in relationship between two human beings, talking about God or about the scriptures or going back to the Vedas, the Bible, and the rest of it, is sheer nonsense. We demand world transformation, the transformation of society about us, but we are blind, unwilling to transform ourselves. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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Freedom and Authority Under no circumstances accept what the speaker says at any time. There is no authority; neither you nor the speaker have authority; both of us are investigating, observing, looking, learning. To be free of authority is to die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion - it is only in that state that one observes and learns. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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The Sacred The many religions throughout the world have said that there is an enduring, everlasting truth, but the mere assertion of truth has very little significance. One has to discover it for oneself… Is there something that thought can never touch, and therefore is incorruptible, timeless, eternal and sacred? Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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Choiceless Awareness Awareness is the silent and choiceless observation of 'what is'. In this awareness the problem unrolls itself and therefore is completely understood. When one is deeply conscious or aware, there is no remnant or hidden unconscious movement. There is no division between the inner and the outer. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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Meditation A meditative mind is silent. Not the silence which thought can conceive. It is not the silence of a still evening. It is the silence when thought, with all its images, its words and perceptions, has entirely ceased. Mediation is wandering through the world of knowledge and being free of it to enter the unknown. Meditation is something that cannot be practised, as you practice a violin, a piano. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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Mirror of Relationship Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. Even the hermit is related to the past, to those around him. There is no escape from relationship. Relationship is always in the living present, not the dead past of memory, of remembrances, of pleasure and pain. Relationship is active now: to be related means just that. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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Conditioning: Prisoners of the Past Our human brain is a mechanical process. Thought is a materialistic process, and that thought has been conditioned to think as a Buddhist, as a Hindu, as a Christian. Is it possible to be free from that conditioning? The 'me', the 'self', is a movement in knowledge, a series of memories. Then the question arises: Is it possible to live psychologically without a single memory? Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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The Violent Self The source of violence is the 'me', the ego, the self, which expresses itself in so many ways - division, in trying to be or become somebody - which divides itself as the 'me' and the 'not me', as the unconscious and the conscious, the 'me' that identifies with the family or not with the family, with the community or not with the community… Every form of escape, distraction, movement away, sustains violence. If one realizes this, then the mind is confronted with 'what is' and nothing else. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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Death: Leaving the Stream We are like the rest of the world. It is a vast endless river. And when we die we'll be like the rest, moving in the same stream as before, when we were living. But the man who understands himself radically, who has resolved all the problems in himself psychologically, he is not of that stream. He has stepped out of it. Death is now, when there is no time, when there is no 'me' becoming something, when there is no self-interest, egotistic activity - which is all the process of time. So living and dying are together always. And you don't know the beauty of it. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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Love: The Flame Without Smoke Love and truth are not to be found in any book, church, or temple. They come into being with self-knowledge. Self-knowing is an arduous but not difficult process; it becomes difficult only when we are trying to achieve a result. But to just be aware from moment to moment of the ways of one's thoughts, feelings, and actions without condemnation or justification brings freedom, a liberation in which there can be this bliss of truth. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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What Is the Religious Mind? Extraordinary things have been done in the name of religion. There have been wars for which religions are responsible; people have been tortured, burned, destroyed; for belief was more important than truth, dogma more vital that direct perception. God isn't something that man has invented, or created out of his image and longing and failure, but when the mind itself becomes sacred then it opens the door to something that is immeasurably sacred. That is religion. And that affects the daily living - the way I talk, the way I treat people, the conduct, behaviour, all that. Region code: All regions Duration: 30 mins Language: English |
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