Q1: What is the relationship between the group consciousness and the individual consciousness? Q2: How can human beings undergo a total psychological change while the group consciousness has not changed totally? Q3: Can right action ever encompass violence? Q4: You speak of compassion but say that action should have no cause. In what way does compassion act without being a cause of action? Q5: Lack of meaning in my daily life leads to a feeling of destructiveness and an inner rage. I see this clearly in myself. How does one approach this tremendous chaos without and within oneself? |
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Q1: Can a marriage or relationship, begun for all the wrong reasons you have described, ever be a positive force? Q2: Is there a security that is not the opposite of insecurity? Q3: Is our continuous search for security a valid need or a neurotic one? Q4: Would you please clarify what you mean by brain, mind and consciousness? Q5: Can intervention when you see someone being aggressive towards another be just? Or is it just a reaction of the self? Q6: Can there be an awareness, deeper than intellectual awareness, which meets the enormity of our problem? Q7: At the talks many of us feel something of immeasurable importance, but after I leave, it dissipates. What can one do? |
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What Can We Do in this World? If we are not committed to any ideology what is our natural response to all the horror going on? As human beings living in this world with our families, our children what is our action, our responsibility? What are we? Why do we behave like this? Is there anything ultimate, any existence without cause? Will that enquiry tell me what I am to do? The analyser is the result of his past memories, experiences, knowledge but is the analyser separate from the analysed? Am I different from my envy? Has relationship, or love, a cause? Can human beings live without cause? |
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What Has Happened to Mankind? Does living according to ideals breed conflict? Are facts much more real than our conclusions about the facts? Ideologies, projected by thought create conflict. Is it necessary to have ideologies at all? Is fear a cause of conflict and can it end? What is its cause? Is it thought that is the root of fear? Without thought what shall I do? Is it possible for the senses to operate fully together? When thought creates the image from sensation that moment is the birth of desire. Can the cause be dispelled without effort? Effort is another form of conflict. Can I observe without movement of thought or time? |
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The Intelligence Which Brings Order and Peace What is intelligence which alone can bring about in life complete order and peace? Is intelligence the perception of what is true? Where there is choice, is there freedom? Has knowledge given us freedom, a just life, a life that is essentially good? Is the good the opposite of the bad? Can I come so close to sorrow that I am sorrow? Realizing the truth of this will my own clarity of perception end sorrow? How can I love when I am caught in a vast structure of memories? |
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The Beauty of Death as Part of Life What is beauty? Where is beauty? With no freedom from this travail and agony and only an occasional sense of beauty what is death? Have you ended something, without any cause? If I am frightened of death can I end that fear now? What is meditation? Is it a becoming? Is it a process of time? Is it a conscious, willed process? Is meditation the peeling away of the miseries of my life step by step while shedding tears? Meditation is necessary to come upon what is sacred. That which has no cause is endless. |
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