So can I look, can the mind be aware of its conditioning? I think it can. Please experiment. Can you be aware that you are a Hindu, a Socialist, a Communist, this or that, just be aware without saying that it is right or wrong? Because it is such a difficult task just to see, we say it is impossible. I say it is only when you are aware of this totality of your being without any reaction that the conditioning goes, totally, deeply—which is really the freedom from the self.
To free the mind from all conditioning, you must see the totality of it without thought. This is not a conundrum; experiment with it and you will see. Do you ever see anything without thought? Have you ever listened, looked, without bringing in this whole process of reaction? You will say that it is impossible to see without thought; you will say no mind can be unconditioned. When you say that, you have already blocked yourself by thought, for the fact is you do not know.
I don’t belong to any
#country, to any
#religion, no
#dogma, no
#belief. That negation of what is
#false, the
#nature of
#change, is
#truth.
Can it completely negate it, put it away? When it does put it away through negation, the nature of change is the positive order. The positive can only come through the negative. I see what nationalism, the division of religions, the separateness belief brings about – all conflict, disorder – I see that actually, feel it in my blood. And I put it away, not verbally but actually in myself.
Disorder cannot be made into order, but the denial of disorder is the nature of change. The very denial is the change. The negation of disorder is the positive nature of change. That is, I see disorder in myself – anger, jealousy, brutality, violence, suspicion, guilt – you know what human beings are – I’m aware of it; the mind is totally aware of all this, which is disorder.
I see the futility of
#smoking; not intellectually but
#actually, and I drop it, without motive, without saying, ‘I’ll do it tomorrow’ – just let go. If I can see something in a flash and drop it, I will know what to do.
If you imitate the silence which I describe, then you are not silent.
You have to find out for yourself what silence is.
Sit quietly and find out; don’t let somebody else tell you.
#silence #jk
When there is
#nohate , when there is no fear, when there is no ambition, when there is no self-concern, then there is
#love.
Be free from
#hate, from
#ambition, from
#greed.
To see truth or falseness does not demand effort.
We are trying to seek something beyond, something permanent. It requires a great deal of maturity to drop all this. Not in the sense of no sex, no money, no power, but to just understand it and let it go.
