To learn about oneself one has to learn anew each minute

Beschrijving van het boek

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?