To learn about oneself one has to learn anew each minute

1. To perceive ‘what is’ is the basis of truth - 7February 1971
Duration: 86 minutes
• Where there is division there must be conflict. A mind in conflict must inevitably
be distorted and therefore it cannot possibly see clearly what is truth.
• We need a total change, a deep revolution, psychological revolution, the inward
revolution, without which you cannot possibly create a new society.
• Is it possible to observe, to perceive without the observer?
• How are images formed? Can the image-building come to an end?
• Knowledge is absolutely necessary. Is it possible that knowledge, which the
brain has accumulated through centuries, does not interfere with relationship?
2. Direct perception is freedom - 10 February 1971
Duration: 80 minutes
• Can the mind living in this world ever be free, not only superficially but
profoundly, at the very root of its existence?
• ‘Freedom from’ is an abstraction, but freedom in observing ‘what is’ and going
beyond it is actual freedom.
• How do I observe greed? Do I observe it as an outsider looking in or do I
observe it without the observer?
• Without the mind being free you cannot live in order.
• Q: Three years have passed; I have no energy to be aware of my reactions.
• Q: Can we seek God through observation?
3. Love is that quality of mind in which there is no division - 14 February 1971
Duration: 89 minutes
• To live in this world with intelligence, in spite of all the complications.
• Is it possible to be free of fear, not only the superficial fear in relationship but
the deep-rooted fear?
• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
• When you are learning, your mind is awake.
• Truth isn’t second-hand; you can’t get it through a guru, a book, you have to
learn about it. The beauty of learning is that you don’t know what truth is.
• What is love?
• A man who has not love in his heart, but the things made by thought, will make
a monstrous world, will construct a society that is totally immoral. To find out,
you must undo everything that you have done.
• What does it mean to die?
4. A mind in meditation is concerned only with meditation, not with the meditator
- 17February 1971
Duration: 87 minutes
• 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.
• What is will?
• Consciousness is heritage, the result of time. Consciousness is the content of
itself, which is time, sorrow, confusion, misery. Intelligence has no heritage.
• What is a mind that is completely silent?
• Q: How does one cope with the extraordinary energy that human beings have?