Brockwood Park 1976

A Transformation Which Implies Freedom

Can there be a radical transformation in the content of our consciousness?

Am I separate from the content of my consciousness? If the observer is the observed what occurs?

Can I be totally free of psychological fears? Does fear exist apart from the word, the idea or is it a structure of words, ideas and time? What is the nature of thinking? Can the mind be free of time, idea, and the word? When you observe that fear is you what takes place?

When there is complete attention which is complete, total energy then is there fear?

All this is meditation.

Pleasure Is a Factor of Conditioning

Sorrow implies grief, travail, neurotic behaviour all that is in our consciousness. Can one bring about a profound revolution in it?

Consciousness is conditioned by three factors fear, pleasure and sorrow. To understand pleasure deeply we must examine closely what is thinking. Is there thinking without the word, the symbol? Can the movement of thought come to an end?

What is the difference between pleasure, joy, and ecstasy? Is there pleasure at the moment, or only afterwards? Can you see something beautiful and end it there not let thought pursue it through image, desire?

Can the brain not register psychologically and so not give momentum to thought?

Is Psychological Time an Invention of Thought?

Is there an ideal, the "what should be" different from "what is"? Is it possible to transform "what is" without the idea of time?

Is love sensation, contact, thought, desire, image? Can you see a beautiful person, a lovely tree and not allow desire to come into it which is the ending of thought?

When there is attachment, hurt is there love? How are love and compassion related? Will it cleanse our hearts because we suffer?

What is the relationship of time to death? Can there be an ending of thought while living?

Freedom Is the First and Last Step

Have pleasure, experience, knowledge, the way we live and at the end die, any meaning?

We are asking what is the significance of life? This is part of meditation. Meditation where there is effort, control, practice has no meaning. The mind must have silence for this.

In the very psychological structure of the mind is there freedom? Can the mind put aside everything built by thought and begin anew? Such a mind is healthy, sane, holy.

Meditation comes only with the complete ending of conflict and of the demand for experience.