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J-A-N-U-A-R-Y 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 04[☺] 12[◑] 19[☻] 26[☽] | 01 02 03 04 05 06 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20[ __[♑CAPRICORN]__/ 21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 / [♒AQUARIUS] Monthly Goals: Tuesday, January 01, 2030 (1) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[31]--[02]--[01]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I S T E N W I T H E A S E | | | | Have you ever sat very silently, not with your attention fixed on any- | | thing, not making an effort to concentrate, but with the mind very qui- | | et, really still? Then you hear everything, don't you? You hear the far | | off noises as well as those that are nearer and those that are very | | close by, the immediate sounds-which means really that you are listening | | to everything. Your mind is not confined to one narrow little channel. | | If you can listen in this way, listen with ease, without strain, you | | will find an extraordinary change taking place within you, a change | | which comes without your volition, without your asking; and in that | | change there is great beauty and depth of insight. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, January 02, 2030 (2) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[01]--[03]--[02]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | P U T T I N G A S I D E S C R E E N S ? | | | | How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your | | projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through | | hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what | | will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate | | your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then | | you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own | | desires. And is there any other form of listening? Is it not important | | to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to every- | | thing- to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the | | noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, | | to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? Listening has im- | | portance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which | | one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we lis- | | ten, and really listen? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, January 03, 2030 (3) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[02]--[04]--[03]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E Y O N D T H E N O I S E O F W O R D S | | | | Listening is an art not easily come by, but in it there is beauty and | | great understanding. We listen with the various depths of our being, but | | our listening is always with a preconception or from a particular point | | of view. We do not listen simply; there is always the intervening screen | | of our own thoughts, conclusions, and prejudices....To listen there must | | be an inward quietness, a freedom from the strain of acquiring, a re- | | laxed attention. This alert yet passive state is able to hear what is | | beyond the verbal conclusion. Words confuse; they are only the outward | | means of communication; but to commune beyond the noise of words, there | | must be in listening an alert passivity. Those who love may listen; but | | it is extremely rare to find a listener. Most of us are after results, | | achieving goals; we are forever overcoming and conquering, and so there | | is no listening. It is only in listening that one hears the song of the | | words. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, January 04, 2030 (4) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[03]--[05]--[04]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I S T E N I N G W I T H O U T T H O U G H T | | | | I do not know whether you have listened to a bird. To listen to some- | | thing demands that your mind be quiet- not a mystical quietness, but | | just quietness. I am telling you something, and to listen to me you have | | to be quiet, not have all kinds of ideas buzzing in your mind. When you | | look at a flower, you look at it, not naming it, not classifying it, not | | saying that it belongs to a certain species- when you do these, you | | cease to look at it. Therefore I am saying that it is one of the most | | difficult things to listen- to listen to the communist, to the social- | | ist, to the congressman, to the capitalist, to anybody, to your wife, to | | your children, to your neighbour, to the bus conductor, to the bird- | | just to listen. It is only when you listen without the idea, without | | thought, that you are directly in contact; and being in contact, you | | will understand whether what he is saying is true or false; you do not | | have to discuss. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, January 05, 2030 (5) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[04]--[06]--[05]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I S T E N I N G B R I N G S F R E E D O M | | | | When you make an effort to listen, are you listening? Is not that very | | effort a distraction that prevents listening? Do you make an effort when | | you listen to something that gives you delight? ...You are not aware of | | the truth, nor do you see the false as the false, as long as your mind | | is occupied in any way with effort, with comparison, with justification | | or condemnation....Listening itself is a complete act; the very act of | | listening brings its own freedom. But are you really concerned with lis- | | tening, or with altering the turmoil within? If you would listen, sir, | | in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without | | forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might | | altogether cease. You see, we are constantly trying to be this or that, | | to achieve a particular state, to capture one kind of experience and | | avoid another, so the mind is everlastingly occupied with something; it | | is never still to listen to the noise of its own struggles and pains. Be | | simple...and don't try to become something or to capture some experi- | | ence. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, January 06, 2030 (6) (Epiphany ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[05]--[07]--[06]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I S T E N I N G W I T H O U T E F F O R T | | | | You are now listening to me; you are not making an effort to pay atten- | | tion, you are just listening; and if there is truth in what you hear, | | you will find a remarkable change taking place in you- a change that is | | not premeditated or wished for, a transformation, a complete revolution | | in which the truth alone is master and not the creations of your mind. | | And if I may suggest it, you should listen in that way to everything- | | not only to what I am saying, but also to what other people are saying, | | to the birds, to the whistle of a locomotive, to the noise of the bus | | going by. You will find that the more you listen to everything, the | | greater is the silence, and that silence is then not broken by noise. It | | is only when you are resisting something, when you are putting up a bar- | | rier between yourself and that to which you do not want to listen- it is | | only then that there is a struggle. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, January 07, 2030 (7) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[06]--[08]--[07]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I S T E N I N G T O Y O U R S E L F | | | | Questioner: While I am here listening to you, I seem to understand, but | | when I am away from here, I don't understand, even though I try to apply | | what you have been saying.Krishnamurti: ...You are listening to your- | | self, and not to the speaker. If you are listening to the speaker, he | | becomes your leader, your way to understanding which is a horror, an | | abomination, because you have then established the hierarchy of authori- | | ty. So what you are doing here is listening to yourself. You are looking | | at the picture the speaker is painting, which is your own picture, not | | the speaker's. If that much is clear, that you are looking at yourself, | | then you can say, "Well, I see myself as I am, and I don't want to do | | anything about it"- and that is the end of it. But if you say, "I see | | myself as I am, and there must be a change," then you begin to work out | | of your own understanding- which is entirely different from applying | | what the speaker is saying....But if, as the speaker is speaking, you | | are listening to yourself, then out of that listening there is clarity, | | there is sensitivity; out of that listening the mind becomes healthy, | | strong. Neither obeying nor resisting, it becomes alive, intense and it | | is only such a human being who can create a new generation, a new world. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, January 08, 2030 (8) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[07]--[09]--[08]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O O K W I T H I N T E N S I T Y | | | | ... It seems to me that learning is astonishingly difficult, as is lis- | | tening also. We never actually listen to anything because our mind is | | not free; our ears are stuffed up with those things that we already | | know, so listening becomes extraordinarily difficult. I think-or rather, | | it is a fact-that if one can listen to something with all of one's be- | | ing, with vigour, with vitality, then the very act of listening is a | | liberative factor, but unfortunately you never do listen, as you have | | never learned about it. After all, you only learn when you give your w- | | hole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics, | | you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not | | want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process | | of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable char- | | acters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention. If | | you want to learn about a leaf-a leaf of the spring or a leaf of the | | summer-you must really look at it, see the symmetry of it, the texture | | of it, the quality of the living leaf. There is beauty, there is vigour, | | there is vitality in a single leaf. So to learn about the leaf, the | | flower, the cloud, the sunset, or a human being, you must look with all | | intensity. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, January 09, 2030 (9) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[08]--[10]--[09]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O L E A R N , T H E M I N D M U S T B E Q U I E T | | | | To discover anything new you must start on your own; you must start on a | | journey completely denuded, especially of knowledge, because it is very | | easy, through knowledge and belief, to have experiences; but those expe- | | riences are merely the products of self-projection and therefore utterly | | unreal, false. If you are to discover for yourself what is the new, it | | is no good carrying the burden of the old, especially knowledge- the | | knowledge of another, however great. You use knowledge as a means of | | self-projection, security, and you want to be quite sure that you have | | the same experiences as the Buddha or the Christ or X. But a man who is | | protecting himself constantly through knowledge is obviously not a | | truth-seeker....For the discovery of truth there is no path.... When you | | want to find something new, when you are experimenting with anything, | | your mind has to be very quiet, has it not? If your mind is crowded, | | filled with facts, knowledge, they act as an impediment to the new; the | | difficulty for most of us is that the mind has become so important, so | | predominantly significant, that it interferes constantly with anything | | that may be new, with anything that may exist simultaneously with the | | known. Thus knowledge and learning are impediments for those who would | | seek, for those who would try to understand that which is timeless. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, January 10, 2030 (10) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[09]--[11]--[10]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L E A R N I N G I S N O T E X P E R I E N C E | | | | The word learning has great significance. There are two kinds of learn- | | ing. For most of us learning means the accumulation of knowledge, of ex- | | perience, of technology, of a skill, of a language. There is also psy- | | chological learning, learning through experience, either the immediate | | experiences of life, which leave a certain residue, of tradition, of the | | race, of society. There are these two kinds of learning how to meet | | life: psychological and physiological; outward skill and inward skill. | | There is really no line of demarcation between the two; they overlap. We | | are not considering for the moment the skill that we learn through prac- | | tice, the technological knowledge that we acquire through study. What we | | are concerned about is the psychological learning that we have acquired | | through the centuries or inherited as tradition, as knowledge, as expe- | | rience. This we call learning, but I question whether it is learning at | | all. I am not talking about learning a skill, a language, a technique, | | but I am asking whether the mind ever learns psychologically. It has | | learned, and with what it has learned it meets the challenge of life. It | | is always translating life or the new challenge according to what it has | | learned. That is what we are doing. Is that learning? Doesn't learning | | imply something new, something that I don't know and am learning? If I | | am merely adding to what I already know, it is no longer learning. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, January 11, 2030 (11) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[10]--[12]--[11]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H E N I S L E A R N I N G P O S S I B L E ? | | | | To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind. By learning I do | | not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowl- | | edge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to | | start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning | | if thought originates from conclusions. Merely to acquire information or | | knowledge is not to learn. Learning implies the love of understanding | | and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when | | there is no coercion of any kind. And coercion takes many forms, does it | | not? There is coercion through influence, through attachment or threat, | | through persuasive encouragement, or subtle forms of reward.Most people | | think that learning is encouraged through comparison, whereas the con- | | trary is the fact. Comparison brings about frustration and merely en- | | courages envy, which is called competition. Like other forms of persua- | | sion, comparison prevents learning and breeds fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, January 12, 2030 (12) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[11]--[13]--[12]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L E A R N I N G I S N E V E R A C C U M U L A T I V E | | | | Learning is one thing and acquiring knowledge is another. Learning is a | | continuous process, not a process of addition, not a process which you | | gather and then from there act. Most of us gather knowledge as memory, | | as idea, store it up as experience, and from there act. That is, we act | | from knowledge, technological knowledge, knowledge as experience, knowl- | | edge as tradition, knowledge that one has derived through one's particu- | | lar idiosyncratic tendencies; with that background, with that accumula- | | tion as knowledge, as experience, as tradition, we act. In that process | | there is no learning. Learning is never accumulative; it is a constant | | movement. I do not know if you have ever gone into this question at all: | | what is learning and what is the acquisition of knowledge? ...Learning | | is never accumulative. You cannot store up learning and then from that | | storehouse act. You learn as you are going along. Therefore, there is | | never a moment of retrogression or deterioration or decline. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, January 13, 2030 (13) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[12]--[14]--[13]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L E A R N I N G H A S N O P A S T | | | | Wisdom is something that has to be discovered by each one, and it is not | | the result of knowledge. Knowledge and wisdom do not go together. Wisdom | | comes when there is the maturity of self-knowing. Without knowing one- | | self, order is not possible, and therefore there is no virtue.Now, | | learning about oneself, and accumulating knowledge about oneself, are | | two different things.... A mind that is acquiring knowledge is never | | learning. What it is doing is this: It is gathering to itself informa- | | tion, experience as knowledge, and from the background of what it has | | gathered, it experiences, it learns; and therefore it is never really | | learning, but always knowing, acquiring.Learning is always in the active | | present; it has no past. The moment you say to yourself, 'I have | | learned,' it has already become knowledge, and from the background of | | that knowledge you can accumulate, translate, but you cannot further | | learn. It is only a mind that is not acquiring, but always learning-it | | is only such a mind that can understand this whole entity that we call | | the 'me,' the self. I have to know myself, the structure, the nature, | | the significance of the total entity; but I can't do that burdened with | | my previous knowledge, with my previous experience, or with a mind that | | is conditioned, for then I am not learning, I am merely interpreting, | | translating, looking with an eye that is already clouded by the past. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, January 14, 2030 (14) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[13]--[15]--[14]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A U T H O R I T Y P R E V E N T S L E A R N I N G | | | | We generally learn through study, through books, through experience, or | | through being instructed. Those are the usual ways of learning. We com- | | mit to memory what to do and what not to do, what to think and what not | | to think, how to feel, how to react. Through experience, through study, | | through analysis, through probing, through introspective examination, we | | store up knowledge as memory; and memory then responds to further chal- | | lenges and demands, from which there is more and more learning....What | | is learned is committed to memory as knowledge, and that knowledge func- | | tions whenever there is a challenge, or whenever we have to do some- | | thing.Now I think there is a totally different way of learning, and I am | | going to talk a little bit about it; but to understand it, and to learn | | in this different way, you must be completely rid of authority; other- | | wise, you will merely be instructed, and you will repeat what you have | | heard. That is why it is very important to understand the nature of au- | | thority. Authority prevents learning- learning that is not the accumula- | | tion of knowledge as memory. Memory always responds in patterns; there | | is no freedom. A man who is burdened with knowledge, with instructions, | | who is weighted down by the things he has learned, is never free. He may | | be most extraordinarily erudite, but his accumulation of knowledge pre- | | vents him from being free, and therefore he is incapable of learning. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, January 15, 2030 (15) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[14]--[16]--[15]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O D E S T R O Y I S T O C R E A T E | | | | To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of author- | | ity, tearing to pieces the whole dirty thing. And that requires energy, | | actual physical energy, and also, it demands psychological energy. But | | the energy is destroyed, is wasted when one is in conflict. ... So when | | there is the understanding of the whole process of conflict, there is | | the ending of conflict, there is abundance of energy. Then you can pro- | | ceed, tearing down the house that you have built throughout the cen- | | turies and that has no meaning at all.You know,to destroy is to create. | | We must destroy, not the buildings, not the social or economic system- | | this comes about daily- but the psychological, the unconscious and the | | conscious defences, securities that one has built up rationally, indi- | | vidually, deeply, and superficially. We must tear through all that to be | | utterly defenceless, because you must be defenceless to love and have | | affection. Then you see and understand ambition, authority; and you be- | | gin to see when authority is necessary and at what level-the authority | | of the policeman and no more. Then there is no authority of learning, no | | authority of knowledge, no authority of capacity, no authority that | | function assumes and which becomes status. To understand all authority- | | of the gurus, of the Masters, and others- requires a very sharp mind, a | | clear brain, not a muddy brain, not a dull brain. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, January 16, 2030 (16) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[15]--[17]--[16]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | V I R T U E H A S N O A U T H O R I T Y | | | | Can the mind be free from authority, which means free from fear, so that | | it is no longer capable of following? If so, this puts an end to imita- | | tion, which becomes mechanical. After all, virtue, ethics, is not a rep- | | etition of what is good. The moment it becomes mechanical, it ceases to | | be virtue. Virtue is something that must be from moment to moment, like | | humility. Humility cannot be cultivated, and a mind that has no humility | | is incapable of learning. So virtue has no authority. The social morali- | | ty is no morality at all; it's immoral because it admits competition, | | greed, ambition, and therefore society is encouraging immorality. Virtue | | is something that transcends morality. Without virtue there is no order, | | and order is not according to a pattern, according to a formula. A mind | | that follows a formula through disciplining itself to achieve virtue | | creates for itself the problems of immorality.An external authority that | | the mind objectifies, apart from the law, as God, as moral, and so on, | | becomes destructive when the mind is seeking to understand what real | | virtue is. We have our own authority as experience, as knowledge, which | | we are trying to follow. There is this constant repetition, imitation, | | which we all know. Psychological authority- not the authority of the | | law, the policeman who keeps order- the psychological authority, which | | each one has, becomes destructive of virtue because virtue is something | | that is living, moving. As you cannot possibly cultivate humility, as | | you cannot possibly cultivate love, so also virtue cannot be cultivated; | | and there is great beauty in that. Virtue is non mechanical, and without | | virtue there is no foundation for clear thinking. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, January 17, 2030 (17) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[16]--[18]--[17]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E O L D M I N D I S B O U N D B Y A U T H O R I T Y | | | | The problem then is: Is it possible for a mind that has been so condi- | | tioned-brought up in innumerable sects, religions, and all the supersti- | | tions, fears- to break away from itself and thereby bring about a new | | mind?....The old mind is essentially the mind that is bound by authori- | | ty. I am not using the word authority in the legalistic sense; but by | | that word I mean authority as tradition, authority as knowledge, author- | | ity as experience, authority as the means of finding security and re- | | maining in that security, outwardly or inwardly, because, after all, | | that is what the mind is always seeking-a place where it can be secure, | | undisturbed. Such authority may be the self-imposed authority of an idea | | or the so-called religious idea of God, which has no reality to a reli- | | gious person. An idea is not a fact, it is a fiction. God is a fiction; | | you may believe in it, but still it is a fiction. But to find God you | | must completely destroy the fiction, because the old mind is the mind | | that is frightened, is ambitious, is fearful of death, of living, and of | | relationship; and it is always, consciously or unconsciously, seeking a | | permanency, security. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, January 18, 2030 (18) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[17]--[19]--[18]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F R E E A T T H E B E G I N N I N G | | | | If we can understand the compulsion behind our desire to dominate or to | | be dominated, then perhaps we can be free from the crippling effects of | | authority. We crave to be certain, to be right, to be successful, to | | know; and this desire for certainty, for permanence, builds up within | | ourselves the authority of personal experience, while outwardly it cre- | | ates the authority of society, of the family, of religion, and so on. | | But merely to ignore authority, to shake off its outward symbols, is of | | very little significance.To break away from one tradition and conform to | | another, to leave this leader and follow that, is but a superficial ges- | | ture. If we are to be aware of the whole process of authority, if we are | | to see the inwardness of it, if we are to understand and transcend the | | desire for certainty, then we must have extensive awareness and insight, | | we must be free, not at the end, but at the beginning. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, January 19, 2030 (19) ☻ ♑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[18]--[20]--[19]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | LIBERATION FROM IGNORANCE, FROM SORROW | | | | We listen with hope and fear; we seek the light of another but are not | | alertly passive to be able to understand. If the liberated seems to ful- | | fil our desires we accept him; if not, we continue our search for the | | one who will; what most of us desire is gratification at different | | levels. What is important is not how to recognize one who is liberated | | but how to understand yourself. No authority here or hereafter can give | | you knowledge of yourself; without self-knowledge there is no liberation | | from ignorance, from sorrow. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, January 20, 2030 (20) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[19]--[21]--[20]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H Y D O W E F O L L O W ? | | | | Why do we accept, why do we follow? We follow another's authority, an- | | other's experience and then doubt it; this search for authority and its | | sequel, disillusionment, is a painful process for most of us. We blame | | or criticize the once accepted authority, the leader, the teacher, but | | we do not examine our own craving for an authority who can direct our | | conduct. Once we understand this craving we shall comprehend the signif- | | icance of doubt. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, January 21, 2030 (21) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[20]--[22]--[21]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | AUTHORITY CORRUPTS BOTH LEADER AND FOLLOWER | | | | Self-awareness is arduous, and since most of us prefer an easy, illusory | | way, we bring into being the authority that gives shape and pattern to | | our life. This authority may be the collective, the State; or it may be | | the personal, the Master, the saviour, the guru. Authority of any kind | | is blinding, it breeds thoughtlessness; and as most of us find that to | | be thoughtful is to have pain, we give ourselves over to authority. | | Authority engenders power, and power always becomes centralized and | | therefore utterly corrupting; it corrupts not only the wielder of power, | | but also him who follows it. The authority of knowledge and experience | | is perverting, whether it be vested in the Master, his representative or | | the priest. It is your own life, this seemingly endless conflict, that | | is significant, and not the pattern or the leader. The authority of the | | Master and the priest takes you away from the central issue, which is | | the conflict within yourself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, January 22, 2030 (22) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[21]--[23]--[22]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C A N I R E L Y O N M Y E X P E R I E N C E ? | | | | Most of us are satisfied with authority because it gives us a continu- | | ity, a certainty, a sense of being protected. But a man who would under- | | stand the implications of this deep psychological revolution must be | | free of authority, must he not? He cannot look to any authority, whether | | of his own creation or imposed upon him by another. And is this possi- | | ble? Is it possible for me not to rely on the authority of my own expe- | | rience? Even when I have rejected all the outward expressions of author- | | ity-books, teachers, priests, churches, beliefs-I still have the feeling | | that at least I can rely on my own judgement, on my own experiences, on | | my own analysis. But can I rely on my experience, on my judgement, on my | | analysis? My experience is the result of my conditioning, just as yours | | is the result of your conditioning, is it not? I may have been brought | | up as a Muslim or a Buddhist or a Hindu, and my experience will depend | | on my cultural, economic,social, and religious background, just as yours | | will. And can I rely on that? Can I rely for guidance, for hope, for the | | vision which will give me faith in my own judgement, which again is the | | result of accumulated memories, experiences, the conditioning of the | | past meeting the present?...Now, when I have put all these questions to | | myself and I am aware of this problem, I see there can only be one state | | in which reality, newness, can come into being, which brings about a | | revolution. That state is when the mind is completely empty of the past, | | when there is no analyser, no experience, no judgement, no authority of | | any kind. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, January 23, 2030 (23) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[22]--[24]--[23]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S E L F - K N O W L E D G E I S A P R O C E S S | | | | So, to understand the innumerable problems that each one of us has, is | | it not essential that there be self-knowledge? And that is one of the | | most difficult things, self-awareness - which does not mean an isola- | | tion, a withdrawal. Obviously, to know oneself is essential; but to know | | oneself does not imply a withdrawal from relationship. And it would be a | | mistake, surely, to think that one can know oneself significantly, com- | | pletely, fully, through isolation, through exclusion, or by going to | | some psychologist, or to some priest; or that one can learn self-knowl- | | edge through a book. Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end | | in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, | | which is relationship. You discover yourself, not in isolation, not in | | withdrawal, but in relationship-in relationship to society, to your | | wife, your husband, your brother, to man; but to discover how you react, | | what your responses are, requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, a | | keenness of perception. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, January 24, 2030 (24) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[23]--[25]--[24]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E U N T E T H E R E D M I N D | | | | The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation | | of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total pro- | | cess of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essen- | | tial; without knowing what you are, there is no basis for right thought, | | and without knowing yourself there cannot be transformation. One must | | know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ide- | | al and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can | | be transformed, not that which you wish to be. To know oneself as one is | | requires an extraordinary alertness of mind, because what is is con- | | stantly undergoing transformation, change; and to follow it swiftly the | | mind must not be tethered to any particular dogma or belief, to any par- | | ticular pattern of action. If you would follow anything, it is no good | | being tethered. To know yourself, there must be the awareness, the | | alertness of mind in which there is freedom from all beliefs, from all | | idealization, because beliefs and ideals only give you a colour, per- | | verting true perception. If you want to know what you are, you cannot | | imagine or have belief in something which you are not. If I am greedy, | | envious, violent, merely having an ideal of non-violence, of non-greed, | | is of little value.... The understanding of what you are, whatever it | | be- ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous- the understanding of what | | you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is | | essential, for it gives freedom. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, January 25, 2030 (25) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[24]--[26]--[25]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A C T I V E S E L F - K N O W L E D G E | | | | Without self-knowledge, experience breeds illusion; with self-knowledge, | | experience, which is the response to challenge, does not leave a cumula- | | tive residue as memory. Self-knowledge is the discovery from moment to | | moment of the ways of the self, its intentions and pursuit, its thoughts | | and appetites. There can never be "your experience" and "my experience"; | | the very term "my experience" indicates ignorance and the acceptance of | | illusion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, January 26, 2030 (26) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[25]--[27]--[26]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C R E A T I V E N E S S T H R O U G H S E L F - K N O W L E D G E | | | | ...There is no method for self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably | | implies the desire to attain some result and that is what we all want. | | We follow authority - if not that of a person, then of a system, of an | | ideology because we want a result that will be satisfactory, which will | | give us security. We really do not want to understand ourselves, our im- | | pulses and reactions, the whole process of our thinking, the conscious | | as well as the unconscious; we would rather pursue a system which as- | | sures us of a result. But the pursuit of a system is invariably the out- | | come of our desire for security, for certainty, and the result is obvi- | | ously not the understanding of oneself. When we follow a method, we must | | have authorities- the teacher, the guru, the saviour, the Master - who | | will guarantee us what we desire; and surely that is not the way to | | self-knowledge.Authority prevents the understanding of oneself, does it | | not? Under the shelter of an authority, a guide, you may have temporari- | | ly a sense of security, a sense of well-being, but that is not the un- | | derstanding of the total process of oneself. Authority in its very na- | | ture prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately de- | | stroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness. There can be | | creativeness only through self-knowledge. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, January 27, 2030 (27) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[26]--[28]--[27]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | Q U I E T M I N D , S I M P L E M I N D | | | | When we are aware of ourselves, is not the whole movement of living a | | way of uncovering the "me," the ego, the self? The self is a very com- | | plex process which can be uncovered only in relationship, in our daily | | activities, in the way we talk, the way we judge, calculate, the way we | | condemn others and ourselves. All that reveals the conditioned state of | | our own thinking, and is it not important to be aware of this whole pro- | | cess? It is only through awareness of what is true from moment to moment | | that there is discovery of the timeless, the eternal. Without self-- | | knowledge, the eternal cannot be. When we do not know ourselves, the | | eternal becomes a mere word, a symbol, a speculation, a dogma, a belief, | | an illusion to which the mind can escape. But if one begins to under- | | stand the "me" in all its various activities from day to day, then in | | that very understanding, without any effort, the nameless, the timeless | | comes into being. But the timeless is not a reward for self-knowledge. | | That which is eternal cannot besought after; the mind cannot acquire it. | | It comes into being when the mind is quiet, and the mind can be quiet | | only when it is simple, when it is no longer storing up, condemning, | | judging, weighing. It is only the simple mind that can understand the | | real, not the mind that is full of words, knowledge, information. The | | mind that analyses, calculates, is not a simple mind. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, January 28, 2030 (28) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[27]--[29]--[28]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S E L F - K N O W I N G | | | | Without knowing yourself, do what you will, there cannot possibly be the | | state of meditation. I mean by "self-knowing," knowing every thought, | | every mood, every word, every feeling; knowing the activity of your | | mind-not knowing the Supreme Self, the big Self; there is no such thing; | | the Higher Self, the Atman, is still within the field of thought. | | Thought is the result of your conditioning, thought is the response of | | your memory-ancestral or immediate. And merely to try to meditate with- | | out first establishing deeply, irrevocably, that virtue which comes | | about through self-knowing, is utterly deceptive and absolutely use- | | less.Please, it is very important for those who are serious, to under- | | stand this. Because if you cannot do that, your meditation and actual | | living are divorced, are apart-so wide apart that though you may medi- | | tate, taking postures indefinitely, for the rest of your life, you will | | not see beyond your nose; any posture you take, anything that you do, | | will have no meaning whatsoever.... It is important to understand what | | this self-knowing is, just to be aware, without any choice, of the "me" | | which has its source in a bundle of memories- just to be conscious of it | | without interpretation, merely to observe the movement of the mind. But | | that observation is prevented when you are merely accumulating through | | observation - what to do, what not to do, what to achieve, what not to | | achieve; if you do that, you put an end to the living process of the | | movement of the mind as the self. That is, I have to observe and see the | | fact, the actual, the what is. If I approach it with an idea, with an | | opinion - such as "I must not," or "I must," which are the responses of | | memory- then the movement of what is is hindered, is blocked; and there- | | fore, there is no learning. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, January 29, 2030 (29) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | FEB/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[28]--[30]--[29]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C R E A T I V E E M P T I N E S S | | | | Can you not just listen to this as the soil receives the seed and see if | | the mind is capable of being free, empty? It can be empty only by under- | | standing all its own projections, its own activities, not off and on, | | but from day to day, from moment to moment. Then you will find the an- | | swer, then you will see that the change comes without your asking, that | | the state of creative emptiness is not a thing to be cultivated- it is | | there, it comes darkly, without any invitation, and only in that state | | is there a possibility of renewal, newness, revolution. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, January 30, 2030 (30) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ MAR/ APR/ MAY/ +---[01]--[31]--[30]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S E L F - K N O W L E D G E | | | | Right thinking comes with self-knowledge. Without understanding your- | | self, you have no basis for thought; without self-knowledge what you | | think is not true.You and the world are not two different entities with | | separate problems; you and the world are one. Your problem is the | | world's problem. You may be the result of certain tendencies, of envi- | | ronmental influences, but you are not different fundamentally from an- | | other. Inwardly we are very much alike; we are all driven by greed, ill | | will, fear, ambition, and so on. Our beliefs, hopes, aspirations have a | | common basis. We are one; we are one humanity, though the artificial | | frontiers of economics and politics and prejudice divide us. If you kill | | another, you are destroying yourself. You are the centre of the whole, | | and without understanding yourself you cannot understand reality.We have | | an intellectual knowledge of this unity but we keep knowledge and feel- | | ing in different compartments and hence we never experience the extraor- | | dinary unity of man. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, January 31, 2030 (31) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ MAY/ +---[02]--[01]--[01]--[31] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | R E L A T I O N S H I P I S A M I R R O R | | | | Self-knowledge is not according to any formula. You may go to a psychol- | | ogist or a psychoanalyst to find out about yourself, but that is not | | self-knowledge. Self-knowledge, comes into being when we are aware, of | | ourselves in relationship, which shows what we are from moment to momen- | | t. Relationship is a mirror in which to see ourselves as we actually | | are. But most of us are incapable of looking at ourselves as we are in | | relationship, because we immediately begin to condemn or justify what we | | see. We judge, we evaluate, we compare, we deny or accept, but we never | | observe actually what is, and for most people this seems to be the most | | difficult thing to do; yet this alone is the beginning of self-knowl- | | edge. If one is able to see oneself as one is in this extraordinary mir- | | ror of relationship which does not distort, if one can just look into | | this mirror with full attention and see actually what is, be aware of it | | without condemnation, without judgement, without evaluation - and one | | does this when there is earnest interest then one will find that the | | mind is capable of freeing itself from all conditioning; and it is only | | then that the mind is free to discover that which lies beyond the field | | of thought.After all,however learned or however petty the mind may be, | | it is consciously or unconsciously limited, conditioned, and any exten- | | sion of this conditioning is still within the field of thought. So free- | | dom is something entirely different. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 03[☺] 11[◑] 18[☻] 24[☽] | 01 02 03 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 __[♒AQUARIUS]__/ 18 19 20[21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 / [♓PISCES] Chinese New Year ( 狗 Dog 戌 Xū): Saturday, February 02 th Monthly Goals: Friday, February 01, 2030 (32) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[03]--[02]--[02]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E C O M I N G I S S T R I F E | | | | Life as we know it, our daily life, is a process of becoming. I am poor | | and I act with an end in view, which is to become rich. I am ugly and I | | want to become beautiful. Therefore my life is a process of becoming | | something. The will to be is the will to become, at different levels of | | consciousness, in different states, in which there is challenge, respon- | | se, naming and recording. Now, this becoming is strife, this becoming is | | pain, it is not? It is a constant struggle: I am this, and I want to be- | | come that. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, February 02, 2030 (33) (Chinese New Year ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[04]--[03]--[03]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A L L B E C O M I N G I S D I S I N T E G R A T I O N | | | | The mind has an idea, perhaps pleasurable, and it wants to be like that | | idea, which is a projection of your desire. You are this, which you do | | not like, and you want to become that, which you like. The ideal is a | | self-projection; the opposite is an extension of what is; it is not the | | opposite at all, but a continuity of what is, perhaps somewhat modified. | | The projection is self-willed, and conflict is the struggle towards the | | projection.... You are struggling to become something, and that some- | | thing is part of yourself. The ideal is your own projection. See how the | | mind has played a trick upon itself. You are struggling after words, | | pursuing your own projection, your own shadow. You are violent, and you | | are struggling to become non-violent, the ideal; but the ideal is a pro- | | jection of what is, only under a different name.When you are aware of | | this trick which you have played upon yourself, then the false as the | | false is seen. The struggle towards an illusion is the disintegrating | | factor. All conflict, all becoming is disintegration. When there is an | | awareness of this trick that the mind has played upon itself, then there | | is only what is. When the mind is stripped of all becoming, of all ide- | | als, of all comparison and condemnation, when its own structure has col- | | lapsed, then the what is has undergone complete transformation. As long | | as there is the naming of what is, there is relationship between the | | mind and what is; but when this naming process -which is memory, the | | very structure of the mind- is not, then what is is not. In this trans- | | formation alone is there integration. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, February 03, 2030 (34) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[05]--[04]--[04]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | CAN THE CRUDE MIND BECOME SENSITIVE? | | | | Listen to the question, to the meaning behind the words. Can the crude | | mind become sensitive? If I say my mind is crude and I try to become | | sensitive, the very effort to become sensitive is crudity. Please see | | this. Don't be intrigued, but watch it. Whereas, if I recognize that I | | am crude without wanting to change, without trying to become sensitive, | | if I begin to understand what crudeness is, observe it in my life from | | day to day -the greedy way I eat, the roughness with which I treat peo- | | ple, the pride, the arrogance, the coarseness of my habits and thoughts | | -then that very observation transforms what is.Similarly,if I am stupid | | and I say I must become intelligent, the effort to become intelligent is | | only a greater form of stupidity; because what is important is to under- | | stand stupidity. However much I may try to become intelligent, my stu- | | pidity will remain. I may acquire the superficial polish of learning, I | | may be able to quote books, repeat passages from great authors, but ba- | | sically I shall still be stupid. But if I see and understand stupidity | | as it expresses itself in my daily life- how I behave towards my servan- | | t, how I regard my neighbour, the poor man, the rich man, the clerk- | | then that very awareness brings about a breaking up of stupidity. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, February 04, 2030 (35) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[06]--[05]--[05]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O P P O R T U N I T I E S F O R S E L F - E X P A N S I O N | | | | ...Hierarchical structure offers an excellent opportunity for self-ex- | | pansion. You may want brotherhood, but how can there be brotherhood if | | you are pursuing spiritual distinctions? You may smile at worldly ti- | | tles; but when you admit the Master, the saviour, the guru in the realm | | of the spirit, are you not carrying over the worldly attitude? Can there | | be hierarchical divisions or degrees in spiritual growth, in the under- | | standing of truth, in the realization of God? Love admits no division. | | Either you love, or do not love; but do not make the lack of love into a | | long-drawn-out process whose end is love. When you know you do not love, | | when you are choicelessly aware of that fact, then there is a possibili- | | ty of transformation; but to sedulously cultivate this distinction be- | | tween the Master and the pupil, between those who have attained and | | those who have not, between the saviour and the sinner, is to deny love. | | The exploiter, who is in turn exploited, finds a happy hunting-ground in | | this darkness and illusion....Separation between God or reality and y- | | ourself is brought about by you, by the mind that clings to the known, | | to certainty, to security. This separation cannot be bridged over; there | | is no ritual, no discipline, no sacrifice that can carry you across it; | | there is no saviour, no Master, no guru who can lead you to the real or | | destroy this separation. The division is not between the real and your- | | self; it is in yourself....What is essential is to understand the in- | | creasing conflict of desire; and this understanding comes only through | | self-knowledge and constant awareness of the movements of the self. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, February 05, 2030 (36) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[07]--[06]--[06]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E Y O N D A L L E X P E R I E N C I N G | | | | Understanding of the self requires a great deal of intelligence, a great | | deal of watchfulness, alertness, watching ceaselessly, so that it does | | not slip away. I who am very earnest, want to dissolve the self. When I | | say that, I know it is possible to dissolve the self. Please be patient. | | The moment I say "I want to dissolve this", and in the process I follow | | for the dissolution of that, there is the experiencing of the self; and | | so, the self is strengthened. So, how is it possible for the self not to | | experience? One can see that creation is not at all the experience of | | the self. Creation is when the self is not there, because creation is | | not intellectual, is not of the mind, is not self-projected, is some- | | thing beyond all experiencing, as we know it. Is it possible for the | | mind to be quite still, in a state of non-recognition, which is, non-ex- | | periencing, to be in a state in which creation can take place -which | | means, when the self is not there, when the self is absent? Am I making | | myself clear or not? ...The problem is this, is it not? Any movement of | | the mind, positive or negative, is an experience which actually | | strengthens the `me'. Is it possible for the mind not to recognize? That | | can only take place when there is complete silence, but not the silence | | which is an experience of the self and which therefore strengthens the | | self. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, February 06, 2030 (37) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[08]--[07]--[07]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H A T I S T H E S E L F ? | | | | The search for power, position, authority, ambition and all the rest are | | the forms of the self in all its different ways. But what is important | | is to understand the self and I am sure you and I are convinced of it. | | If I may add here, let us be earnest about this matter; because I feel | | that if you and I as individuals, not as a group of people belonging to | | certain classes, certain societies, certain climatic divisions, can un- | | derstand this and act upon this, then I think there will be real revolu- | | tion. The moment it becomes universal and better organized, the self | | takes shelter in that; whereas, if you and I as individuals can love, | | can carry this out actually in everyday life, then the revolution that | | is so essential will come into being....You know what I mean by the | | self? By that, I mean the idea, the memory, the conclusion, the experi- | | ence, the various forms of nameable and unnameable intentions, the con- | | scious endeavour to be or not to be, the accumulated memory of the un- | | conscious, the racial, the group, the individual, the clan, and the w- | | hole of it all, whether it is projected outwardly in action, or project- | | ed spiritually as virtue; the striving after all this is the self. In it | | is included the competition, the desire to be. The whole process of | | that, is the self; and we know actually when we are faced with it, that | | it is an evil thing. I am using the word evil intentionally, because the | | self is dividing; the self is self-enclosing; its activities, however | | noble, are separated and isolated. We know all this. We also know that | | extraordinary are the moments when the self is not there, in which there | | is no sense of endeavour, of effort, and which happens when there is | | love. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, February 07, 2030 (38) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[09]--[08]--[08]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H E N T H E R E I S L O V E , S E L F I S N O T | | | | Reality, truth, is not to be recognized. For truth to come, belief, | | knowledge, experiencing, virtue, pursuit of virtue - which is different | | from being virtuous- all this must go. The virtuous person who is con- | | scious of pursuing virtue can never find reality. He may be a very de- | | cent person; that is entirely different from the man of truth, from the | | man who understands. To the man of truth, truth has come into being. A | | virtuous man is a righteous man, and a righteous man can never under- | | stand what is truth; because virtue to him is the covering of the self, | | the strengthening of the self; because he is pursuing virtue. When he | | says `I must be without greed', the state in which he is non-greedy and | | which he experiences, strengthens the self. That is why it is so impor- | | tant to be poor, not only in the things of the world, but also in belief | | and in knowledge. A man rich with worldly riches, or a man rich in | | knowledge and belief, will never know anything but darkness, and will be | | the centre of all mischief and misery. But if you and I, as individuals, | | can see this whole working of the self, then we shall know what love is. | | I assure you that is the only reformation which can possibly change the | | world. Love is not the self. Self cannot recognize love. You say "I | | love," but then, in the very saying of it, in the very experiencing of | | it, love is not. But, when you know love, self is not. When there is | | love, self is not. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, February 08, 2030 (39) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[10]--[09]--[09]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | U N D E R S T A N D I N G W H A T I S | | | | Surely, a man who is understanding life does not want beliefs. A man who | | loves, has no beliefs- he loves. It is the man who is consumed by the | | intellect who has beliefs, because intellect is always seeking security, | | protection; it is always avoiding danger, and therefore it builds ideas, | | beliefs, ideals, behind which it can take shelter. What would happen if | | you dealt with violence directly, now? You would be a danger to society; | | and because the mind foresees the danger, it says "I will achieve the | | ideal of non-violence ten years later which is such a fictitious, false | | process.... To understand what is, is more important than to create and | | follow ideals because ideals are false, and what is is the real. To un- | | derstand what is requires an enormous capacity, a swift and unprejudiced | | mind. It is because we don't want to face and understand what is that we | | invent the many ways of escape and give them lovely names as the ideal, | | the belief,God. Surely, it is only when I see the false as the false | | that my mind is capable of perceiving what is true. A mind that is con- | | fused in the false, can never find the truth. Therefore, I must under- | | stand what is false in my relationships, in my ideas, in the things | | about me because to perceive the truth requires the understanding of the | | false. Without removing the causes of ignorance, there cannot be en- | | lightenment; and to seek enlightenment when the mind is unenlightened is | | utterly empty, meaningless. Therefore, I must begin to see the false in | | my relationships with ideas, with people, with things. When the mind | | sees that which is false, then that which is true comes into being and | | then there is ecstasy, there is happiness. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, February 09, 2030 (40) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[11]--[10]--[10]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H A T W E B E L I E V E | | | | Does belief give enthusiasm? Can enthusiasm sustain itself without a be- | | lief, and is enthusiasm at all necessary, or is a different kind of en- | | ergy needed, a different kind of vitality, drive? Most of us have enthu- | | siasm for something or other. We are very keen, very enthusiastic about | | concerts, about physical exercise, or going to a picnic. Unless it is | | nourished all the time by something or other, it fades away and we have | | a new enthusiasm for other things. Is there a self-sustaining force, en- | | ergy, which doesn't depend on a belief?The other question is: Do we need | | a belief of any kind, and if we do, why is it necessary? That's one of | | the problems involved. We don't need a belief that there is sunshine, | | the mountains, the rivers. We don't need a belief that we and our wives | | quarrel. We don't have to have a belief that life is a terrible misery | | with its anguish, conflict, and constant ambition; it is a fact. But we | | demand a belief when we want to escape from a fact into an unreality. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, February 10, 2030 (41) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[12]--[11]--[11]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A G I T A T E D B Y B E L I E F | | | | So, your religion, your belief in God, is an escape from actuality, and | | therefore it is no religion at all. The rich man who accumulates money | | through cruelty, through dishonesty, through cunning exploitation be- | | lieves in God; and you also believe in God, you also are cunning, cruel, | | suspicious, envious. Is God to be found through dishonesty, through de- | | ceit, through cunning tricks of the mind? Because you collect all the | | sacred books and the various symbols of God, does that indicate that you | | are a religious person? So, religion is not escape from the fact; reli- | | gion is the understanding of the fact of what you are in your everyday | | relationships; religion is the manner of your speech, the way you talk, | | the way you address your servants, the way you treat your wife, your | | children, and neighbours. As long as you do not understand your rela- | | tionship with your neighbour, with society, with your wife and children, | | there must be confusion; and whatever it does, the mind that is confused | | will only create more confusion, more problems and conflict. A mind that | | escapes from the actual, from the facts of relationship, shall never | | find God; a mind that is agitated by belief shall not know truth. But | | the mind that understands its relationship with property, with people, | | with ideas, the mind which no longer struggles with the problems which | | relationship creates, and for which the solution is not withdrawal but | | the understanding of love-such a mind alone can understand reality. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, February 11, 2030 (42) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[13]--[12]--[12]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E Y O N D B E L I E F | | | | We realize that life is ugly, painful, sorrowful; we want some kind of | | theory, some kind of speculation or satisfaction, some kind of doctrine, | | which will explain all this, and so we are caught in explanation, in | | words, in theories, and gradually, beliefs become deeply rooted and un- | | shakable because behind those beliefs, behind those dogmas, there is the | | constant fear of the unknown. But we never look at that fear; we turn | | away from it. The stronger the beliefs, the stronger the dogmas. And | | when we examine these beliefs- the Christian, the Hindu, the Buddhist- | | we find that they divide people. Each dogma, each belief has a series of | | rituals, a series of compulsions which bind man and separate man. So, we | | start with an inquiry to find out what is true, what the significance is | | of this misery, this struggle, this pain; and we are soon caught up in | | beliefs, in rituals, in theories.Belief is corruption because, behind | | belief and morality lurks the mind, the self the self growing big, pow- | | erful and strong. We consider belief in God, the belief in something, as | | religion. We consider that to believe is to be religious. You under- | | stand? If you do not believe, you will be considered an atheist, you | | will be condemned by society. One society will condemn those who believe | | in God, and another society will condemn those who do not. They are both | | the same. So, religion becomes a matter of belief- and belief acts and | | has a corresponding influence on the mind; the mind then can never be | | free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what | | is God, not through any belief, because your very belief projects what | | you think ought to be God, what you think ought to be true. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, February 12, 2030 (43) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[14]--[13]--[13]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E S C R E E N O F B E L I E F | | | | You believe in God, and another does not believe in God, so your beliefs | | separate you from each other. Belief throughout the world is organized | | as Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity, and so it divides man from man. | | We are confused, and we think that through belief we shall clear the | | confusion; that is, belief is superimposed on the confusion, and we hope | | that confusion will thereby be cleared away. But belief is merely an | | escape from the fact of confusion; it does not help us to face and to | | understand the fact but to run away from the confusion in which we are. | | To understand the confusion, belief is not necessary, and belief only | | acts as a screen between ourselves and our problems. So, religion, which | | is organized belief, becomes a means of escape from what is, from the | | fact of confusion. The man who believes in God, the man who believes in | | the hereafter, or who has any other form of belief, is escaping from the | | fact of what he is.Do you not know those who believe in God, who do pu- | | ja, who repeat certain chants and words, and who in their daily life are | | dominating, cruel, ambitious, cheating, dishonest? Shall they find God? | | Are they really seeking God? Is God to be found through repetition of | | words, through belief? But such people believe in God, they worship God, | | they go to the temple every day, they do everything to avoid the fact of | | what they are -and such people you consider respectable because they are | | yourself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, February 13, 2030 (44) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[15]--[14]--[14]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M E E T I N G L I F E A N E W | | | | One of the things, it seems to me, that most of us eagerly accept and | | take for granted is the question of beliefs. I am not attacking beliefs. | | What we are trying to do is to find out why we accept beliefs; and if we | | can understand the motives, the causation of acceptance, then perhaps we | | may be able not only to understand why we do it, but also be free of it. | | One can see how political and religious beliefs, national and various | | other types of beliefs, do separate people, do create conflict, confu- | | sion, and antagonism which is an obvious fact; and yet we are unwilling | | to give them up. There is the Hindu belief, the Christian belief, the | | Buddhist innumerable sectarian and national beliefs, various political | | ideologies, all contending with one other, trying to convert one other. | | One can see, obviously, that belief is separating people, creating in- | | tolerance; is it possible to live without belief? One can find that out | | only if one can study oneself in relationship to a belief. Is it possi- | | ble to live in this world without a belief not change beliefs, not sub- | | stitute one belief for another, but be entirely free from all beliefs, | | so that one meets life anew each minute? This, after all, is the truth: | | to have the capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, | | without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the | | cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which | | is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, February 14, 2030 (45) (St.Valentine ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[16]--[15]--[15]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E L I E F H I N D E R S T R U E U N D E R S T A N D I N G | | | | If we had no belief, what would happen to us? Shouldn't we be very | | frightened of what might happen? If we had no pattern of action, based | | on a belief- either in God, or in communism, or in socialism, or in im- | | perialism, or in some kind of religious formula, some dogma in which we | | are conditioned- we should feel utterly lost, shouldn't we? And is not | | this acceptance of a belief the covering up of that fear -the fear of | | being really nothing, of being empty? After all, a cup is useful only | | when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, | | with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind; it is | | merely a repetitive mind. To escape from that fear- that fear of empti- | | ness, that fear of loneliness, that fear of stagnation, of not arriving, | | not succeeding, not achieving, not being something, not becoming some- | | thing -is surely one of the reasons, is it not, why we accept beliefs so | | eagerly and greedily? And, through acceptance of belief, do we under- | | stand ourselves? On the contrary. A belief, religious or political, ob- | | viously hinders the understanding of ourselves. It acts as a screen | | through which we look at ourselves. And can we look at ourselves without | | beliefs? If we remove these beliefs, the many beliefs that one has, is | | there anything left to look at? If we have no beliefs with which the | | mind has identified itself, then the mind, without identification, is | | capable of looking at itself as it is -and then, surely there is the be- | | ginning of the understand of oneself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, February 15, 2030 (46) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[17]--[16]--[16]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D I R E C T O B S E R V A T I O N | | | | Why do ideas take root in our minds? Why do not facts become all-impor- | | tant- not ideas? Why do theories, ideas, become so significant rather | | than the fact? Is it that we cannot understand the fact, or have not the | | capacity, or are afraid of facing the fact? Therefore, ideas, specula- | | tions, theories are a means of escaping away from the fact....You may | | run away, you may do all kinds of things; the facts are there the fact | | that one is angry, the fact that one is ambitious, the fact that one is | | sexual, a dozen things. You may suppress them, you may transmute them, | | which is another form of suppression; you may control them, but they are | | all suppressed, controlled, disciplined with ideas....Do not ideas waste | | our energy? Do not ideas dull the mind? You may be clever in specula- | | tion, in quotations; but it is obviously a dull mind which quotes, that | | has read a lot and quotes....You remove the conflict of the opposite at | | one stroke if you live with the fact and therefore liberate the energy | | to face the fact. For most of us, contradiction is an extraordinary | | field in which the mind is caught. I want to do this, and I do something | | entirely different; but if I face the fact of wanting to do this, there | | is no contradiction; and therefore, at one stroke I abolish altogether | | all sense of the opposite, and my mind then is completely concerned with | | what is, and with the understanding of what is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, February 16, 2030 (47) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[18]--[17]--[17]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A C T I O N W I T H O U T I D E A | | | | It is only when the mind is free from idea that there can be experienc- | | ing. Ideas are not truth; and truth is something that must be experi- | | enced directly, from moment to moment. It is not an experience which you | | want -which is then merely sensation. Only when one can go beyond the | | bundle of ideas -which is the "me," which is the mind, which has a par- | | tial or complete continuity only when one can go beyond that, when | | thought is completely silent, is there a state of experiencing. Then one | | shall know what truth is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, February 17, 2030 (48) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[19]--[18]--[18]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | ACTION WITHOUT THE PROCESS OF THOUGHT | | | | What do we mean by idea? Surely idea is the process of thought. Is it | | not? Idea is a process of mentation, of thinking; and thinking is always | | a reaction either of the conscious or of the unconscious. Thinking is a | | process of verbalization which is the result of memory; thinking is a | | process of time. So, when action is based on the process of thinking, | | such action must inevitably be conditioned, isolated. Idea must oppose | | idea, idea must be dominated by idea. There is a gap then between action | | and idea. What we are trying to find out is whether it is possible for | | action to be without idea. We see how idea separates people. As I have | | already explained, knowledge and belief are essentially separating qual- | | ities. Beliefs never bind people; they always separate people; when ac- | | tion is based on belief or an idea or an ideal, such an action must | | inevitably be isolated, fragmented. Is it possible to act without the | | process of thought, thought being a process of time, a process of calcu- | | lation, a process of self-protection, a process of belief, denial, con- | | demnation, justification. Surely, it must have occurred to you as it has | | to me, whether action is at all possible without idea. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, February 18, 2030 (49) ☻ ♒ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[20]--[19]--[19]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D O I D E A S L I M I T A C T I O N ? | | | | Can ideas ever produce action, or do ideas merely mold thought and | | therefore limit action? When action is compelled by an idea, action can | | never liberate man. It is extraordinarily important for us to understand | | this point. If an idea shapes action, then action can never bring about | | the solution to our miseries because, before it can be put into action, | | we have first to discover how the idea comes into being. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, February 19, 2030 (50) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[21]--[20]--[20]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I D E O L O G Y P R E V E N T S A C T I O N | | | | The world is always close to catastrophe. But it seems to be closer now. | | Seeing this approaching catastrophe, most of us take shelter in idea. We | | think that this catastrophe, this crisis, can be solved by an ideology. | | Ideology is always an impediment to direct relationship, which prevents | | action. We want peace only as an idea, but not as an actuality. We want | | peace on the verbal level which is only on the thinking level, though we | | proudly call it the intellectual level. But the word peace is not peace. | | Peace can only be when the confusion which you and another make ceases. | | We are attached to the world of ideas and not to peace. We search for | | new social and political patterns and not for peace; we are concerned | | with the reconciliation of effects and not in putting aside the cause of | | war. This search will bring only answers conditioned by the past. This | | conditioning is what we call knowledge, experience; and the new changing | | facts are translated, interpreted, according to this knowledge. So, | | there is conflict between what is and the experience that has been. The | | past, which is knowledge, must ever be in conflict with the fact, which | | is ever in the present. So, this will not solve the problem but will | | perpetuate the conditions which have created the problem. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, February 20, 2030 (51) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[22]--[21]--[21]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A C T I O N W I T H O U T I D E A T I O N | | | | The idea is the result of the thought process, the thought process is | | the response of memory, and memory is always conditioned. Memory is al- | | ways in the past, and that memory is given life in the present by a | | challenge. Memory has no life in itself; it comes to life in the present | | when confronted by a challenge. And all memory, whether dormant or ac- | | tive, is conditioned, is it not? Therefore there has to be quite a dif- | | ferent approach. You have to find out for yourself, inwardly, whether | | you are acting on an idea, and if there can be action without ideation. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, February 21, 2030 (52) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[23]--[22]--[22]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | ACTING WITHOUT IDEA IS THE WAY OF LOVE | | | | Thought must always be limited by the thinker who is conditioned; the | | thinker is always conditioned and is never free; if thought occurs, im- | | mediately idea follows. Idea in order to act is bound to create more | | confusion. Knowing all this, is it possible to act without idea? Yes, it | | is the way of love. Love is not an idea; it is not a sensation; it is | | not a memory; it is not a feeling of postponement, a self protective de- | | vice. We can only be aware of the way of love when we understand the w- | | hole process of idea. Now, is it possible to abandon the other ways and | | know the way of love which is the only redemption? No other way, politi- | | cal or religious, will solve the problem. This is not a theory which you | | will have to think over and adopt in your life; it must be actu- | | al......When you love, is there idea? Do not accept it; just look at it, | | examine it, go into it profoundly; because every other way we have | | tried, and there is no answer to misery. Politicians may promise it; the | | so-called religious organizations may promise future happiness; but we | | have not got it now, and the future is relatively unimportant when I am | | hungry. We have tried every other way; and we can only know the way of | | love if we know the way of idea and abandon idea, which is to act. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, February 22, 2030 (53) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[24]--[23]--[23]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C O N F L I C T O F T H E O P P O S I T E S | | | | I wonder if there is such a thing as evil? Please give your attention, | | go with me, let us inquire together. We say there is good and evil. | | There is envy and love, and we say that envy is evil and love is good. | | Why do we divide life, calling this good and that bad, thereby creating | | the conflict of the opposites? Not that there is not envy, hate, brutal- | | ity in the human mind and heart, an absence of compassion, love, but why | | do we divide life into the thing called good and the thing called evil? | | Is there not actually only one thing, which is a mind that is inatten- | | tive? Surely, when there is complete attention, that is, when the mind | | is totally aware, alert, watchful, there is no such thing as evil or | | good; there is only an awakened state. Goodness then is not a quality, | | not a virtue, it is a state of love. When there is love, there is nei- | | ther good nor bad, there is only love. When you really love somebody, | | you are not thinking of good or bad, your whole being is filled with | | that love. It is only when there is the cessation of complete attention, | | of love, that there comes the conflict between what I am and what I | | should be. Then that which I am is evil, and that which I should be is | | the so-called good....You watch your own mind and you will see that the | | moment the mind ceases to think in terms of becoming something, there is | | a cessation of action which is not stagnation; it is a state of total | | attention, which is goodness. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, February 23, 2030 (54) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[25]--[24]--[24]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E Y O N D D U A L I T Y | | | | Are you not aware of it? Are not its actions obvious, its sorrow crush- | | ing? Who has created it but each one of us? Who is responsible for it | | but each one of us? As we have created good, however little, so we have | | created evil, however vast. Good and evil are part of us and are also | | independent of us. When we think-feel narrowly, enviously, with greed | | and hate, we are adding to the evil which turns and rends us. This prob- | | lem of good and evil, this conflicting problem, is always with us as we | | are creating it. It has become part of us, this wanting and not wanting, | | loving and hating, craving and renouncing. We are continually creating | | this duality in which thought-feeling is caught up. Thought-feeling can | | go beyond and above good and its opposite only when it understands its | | cause -craving. In understanding merit and demerit there is freedom from | | both. Opposites cannot be fused and they are to be transcended through | | the dissolution of craving. Each opposite must be thought out, felt out, | | as extensively and deeply as possible, through all the layers of con- | | sciousness; through this thinking out, feeling out, a new comprehension | | is awakened which is not the product of craving or of time.There is evil | | in the world to which we are contributing as we contribute to the good. | | Man seems to unite more in hate than in good. A wise man realizes the | | cause of evil and good, and through understanding frees thought-feeling | | from it. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, February 24, 2030 (55) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[26]--[25]--[25]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | J U S T I F Y I N G E V I L | | | | Obviously the present crisis throughout the world is exceptional, with- | | out precedent. There have been crises of varying types at different pe- | | riods throughout history- social, national, political. Crises come and | | go; economic recessions, depressions, come, get modified, and continue | | in a different form. We know that; we are familiar with that process. | | Surely the present crisis is different, is it not? It is different first | | because we are dealing not with money nor with tangible things but with | | ideas. The crisis is exceptional because it is in the field of ideation. | | We are quarrelling with ideas, we are justifying murder; everywhere in | | the world we are justifying murder as a means to a righteous end, which | | in itself is unprecedented. Before, evil was recognized to be evil, mur- | | der was recognized to be murder, but now murder is a means to achieve a | | noble result. Murder, whether of one person or of a group of people, is | | justified, because the murderer, or the group that the murderer repre- | | sent, justifies it as a means of achieving a result that will be benefi- | | cial to man. That is we sacrifice the present for the future -and it | | does not matter what means we employ as long as our declared purpose is | | to produce a result that we say will be beneficial to man. Therefore, | | the implication is that a wrong means will produce a right end and you | | justify the wrong means through ideation.... We have a magnificent | | structure of ideas to justify evil and surely that is unprecedented. | | Evil is evil; it cannot bring about good. War is not a means to peace. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, February 25, 2030 (56) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[27]--[26]--[26]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | G O O D N E S S H A S N O M O T I V E | | | | If I have a motive to be good, does that bring about goodness? Or is | | goodness something entirely devoid of this urge to be good, which is ev- | | er based on a motive? Is good the opposite of bad, the opposite of evil? | | Every opposite contains the seed of its own opposite, does it not? There | | is greed, and there is the ideal of non greed. When the mind pursues non | | greed, when it tries to be non greedy, it is still greedy because it | | wants to be something. Greed implies desiring, acquiring, expanding; and | | when the mind sees that it does not pay to be greedy, it wants to be non | | greedy, so the motive is still the same, which is to be or to acquire | | something. When the mind wants not to want, the root of want, of desire, | | is still there. So goodness is not the opposite of evil; it is a totally | | different state. And what is that state?Obviously,goodness has no motive | | because all motive is based on the self; it is the egocentric movement | | of the mind. So what do we mean by goodness? Surely, there is goodness | | only when there is total attention. Attention has no motive. When there | | is a motive for attention, is there attention? If I pay attention in | | order to acquire something, the acquisition, whether it be good or bad, | | is not attention it is a distraction. A division. There can be goodness | | only when there is a totality of attention in which there is no effort | | to be or not to be. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, February 26, 2030 (57) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[28]--[27]--[27]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H U M A N E V O L U T I O N | | | | Must we know drunkenness to know sobriety? Must you go through hate in | | order to know what it is to be compassionate? Must you go through wars, | | destroying yourself and others, to know what peace is? Surely, this is | | an utterly false way of thinking, is it not? First you assume that there | | is evolution, growth, a moving from bad to good, and then you fit your | | thinking into that pattern. Obviously, there is physical growth, the | | little plant becoming the big tree; there is technological progress, the | | wheel evolving through centuries into the jet plane. But is there psy- | | chological progress, evolution? That is what we are discussing -whether | | there is a growth, an evolution of the "me," beginning with evil and | | ending up in good. Through a process of evolution, through time, can the | | "me," which is the centre of evil, ever become noble, good? Obviously | | not. That which is evil, the psychological "me," will always remain | | evil. But we do not want to face that. We think that through the process | | of time, through growth and change, the "I" will ultimately become real- | | ity. This is our hope, that is our longing -that the "I" will be made | | perfect through time. What is this "I," this "me"? It is a name, a form, | | a bundle of memories, hopes, frustrations, longings, pains, sorrows, | | passing joys. We want this "me" to continue and become perfect, and so | | we say that beyond the "me" there is a "super-me," a higher self, a | | spiritual entity which is timeless, but since we have thought of it, | | that "spiritual" entity is still within the field of time, is it not? If | | we can think about it, it is obviously within the field of our reason- | | ing. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, February 27, 2030 (58) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[29]--[28]--[28]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F R E E D O M F R O M O C C U P A T I O N | | | | Can the mind be free from the past, free from thought -not from the good | | or bad thought? How do I find out? I can only find out by seeing what | | the mind is occupied with. If my mind is occupied with the good or occu- | | pied with the bad, then it is only concerned with the past, it is occu- | | pied with the past. It is not free of the past. So, what is important is | | to find out how the mind is occupied. If it is occupied at all, it is | | always occupied with the past because all our consciousness is the past. | | The past is not only on the surface but on the highest level, and the | | stress on the unconscious is also the past....Can the mind be free from | | occupation? This means -can the mind be completely without being occu- | | pied and let memory, the thoughts good and bad, go by without choosing? | | The moment the mind is occupied with one thought, good or bad, then it | | is concerned with the past.... If you really listen -not just merely | | verbally, but really profoundly- then you will see that there is stabil- | | ity which is not of the mind, which is the freedom from the past.Yet, | | the past can never be put aside. There is a watching of the past as it | | goes by, but not occupation with the past. So the mind is free to ob- | | serve and not to choose. Where there is choice in this movement of the | | river of memory, there is occupation; and the moment the mind is occu- | | pied, it is caught in the past; and when the mind is occupied with the | | past, it is incapable of seeing something real, true, new, original, un- | | contaminated. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, February 28, 2030 (59) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[30]--[29]--[29]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H I N K I N G B E G E T S E F F O R T | | | | "How can I remain free from evil thoughts, evil and wayward thoughts?" | | ...Is there the thinker, the one apart from thought, apart from the | | evil, wayward thoughts? Please watch your own mind. We say, "There is | | the I, the me that says, "This is a wayward thought," "This is bad," "I | | must control this thought," "I must keep to this thought." That is what | | we know. Is the one, the I, the thinker, the judger, the one that | | judges, the censor, different from all this? Is the I different from | | thought, different from envy, different from evil? The I which says that | | it is different from this evil is everlastingly trying to overcome me, | | trying to push me away, trying to become something. So you have this | | struggle, the effort to put away thoughts, not to be wayward.We have, in | | the very process of thinking, created this problem of effort. Do you | | follow? Then you give birth to discipline, controlling thought- the I | | controlling the thought which is not good, the I which is trying to be- | | come non envious, non-violent, to be this and to be that. So you have | | brought into being the very process of effort when there is the I and | | the thing which it is controlling. That is the actual fact of our every- | | day existence. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ M-A-R-C-H 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 05[☺] 12[◑] 19[☻] 26[☽] | 01 02 03 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 __[♓PISCES]__/ 18 19 20[21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 / [♈ARIES] Monthly Goals: Friday, March 01, 2030 (60) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAR/ APR/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[31]--[30]--[30]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A F R E E M I N D H A S H U M I L I T Y | | | | Have you ever gone into the question of psychological dependence? If you | | go into it very deeply, you will find that most of us are terribly lone- | | ly. Most of us have such shallow, empty minds. Most of us do not know | | what love means. So, out of that loneliness, out of that insufficiency, | | out of the privation of life, we are attached to something, attached to | | the family; we depend upon it. And when the wife or the husband turns | | away from us, we are jealous. Jealousy is not love; but the love which | | society acknowledges in the family is made respectable. That is another | | form of defence, another form of escape from ourselves. So every form of | | resistance breeds dependence. And a mind that is dependent can never be | | free.You need to be free, because you will see that a mind that is free | | has the essence of humility. Such a mind, which is free and therefore | | has humility, can learn-not a mind that resists. Learning is an extraor- | | dinary thing-to learn, not to accumulate knowledge. Accumulating knowl- | | edge is quite a different thing. What we call knowledge is comparatively | | easy, because that is a movement from the known to the known. But to | | learn is a movement from the known to the unknown - you learn only like | | that, do you not? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, March 02, 2030 (61) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ MAY/ JUN/ +---[01]--[01]--[31]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | WE NEVER QUESTION THE PROBLEM OF DEPENDENCE | | | | Why do we depend? Psychologically, inwardly, we depend on a belief, on a | | system, on a philosophy; we ask another for a mode of conduct; we seek | | teachers who will give us a way of life which will lead us to some hope, | | some happiness. So we are always, are we not, searching for some kind of | | dependence, security. Is it possible for the mind ever to free itself | | from this sense of dependence? Which does not mean that the mind must | | achieve independence-that is only the reaction to dependence. We are not | | talking of independence, of freedom from a particular state. If we can | | inquire without the reaction of seeking freedom from a particular state | | of dependence, then we can go much more deeply into it.... We accept the | | necessity for dependence; we say it is inevitable. We have never ques- | | tioned the whole issue at all, why each one of us seeks some kind of de- | | pendence. Is it not that we really, deep down, demand security, perma- | | nency? Being in a state of confusion, we want someone to get us out of | | that confusion. So, we are always concerned with how to escape or avoid | | the state in which we are. In the process of avoiding that state, we are | | bound to create some kind of dependence, which becomes our authority. If | | we depend on another for our security, for our inward well-being, there | | arise out of that dependence innumerable problems, and then we try to | | solve those problems-the problems of attachment. But we never question, | | we never go into the problem of dependence itself. Perhaps if we can re- | | ally intelligently, with full awareness, go into this problem, then we | | may find that dependence is not the issue at all-that it is only a way | | of escaping from a deeper fact. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, March 03, 2030 (62) (Mardi Gras ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[02]--[02]--[01]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THERE IS SOME DEEPER FACTOR THAT MAKES US DEPEND | | | | We know we depend-on our relationship with people or on some idea or on | | a system of thought. Why?...Actually, I do not think dependence is the | | problem; I think there is some other deeper factor that makes us depend. | | And if we can unravel that, then both dependence and the struggle for | | freedom will have very little significance; then all the problems which | | arise through dependence will wither away. So, what is the deeper issue? | | Is it that the mind abhors, fears, the idea of being alone? And does the | | mind know that state which it avoids? ...So long as that loneliness is | | not really understood, felt, penetrated, dissolved-whatever word you may | | like to use-so long as that sense of loneliness remains, dependence is | | inevitable, and one can never be free; one can never find out for one- | | self that which is true, that which is religion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, March 04, 2030 (63) (Carnival Monday ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[03]--[03]--[02]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E C O M E D E E P L Y A W A R E | | | | Dependence sets going the movement of aloofness and attachment, a con- | | stant conflict without comprehension, without a release. You must become | | aware of the process of attachment and dependence, become aware of it | | without condemnation, without judgement, and then you will perceive the | | significance of this conflict of opposites. If you become deeply aware | | and consciously direct thought to comprehend the full meaning of need, | | of dependence, your conscious mind will be open and clear about it; and | | then the subconscious with its hidden motives, pursuits and intentions, | | will project itself into the conscious. When this happens, you must s- | | tudy and understand each intimation of the subconscious If you do this | | many times, becoming aware of the projections of the subconscious after | | the conscious has thought out the problem as clearly as possible, then, | | even though you give your attention to other matters, the conscious and | | the subconscious will work out the problem of dependence, or any other | | problem. Thus there is established a constant awareness which will pa- | | tiently and gently bring about integration; and if your health and diet | | are all right, this will in turn bring about fullness of being. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, March 05, 2030 (64) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[04]--[04]--[03]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | R E L A T I O N S H I P | | | | Relationship based on mutual need brings only conflict. However interde- | | pendent we are on each other, we are using each other for a purpose, for | | an end. With an end in view, relationship is not. You may use me and I | | may use you. In this usage, we lose contact. A society based on mutual | | usage is the foundation of violence. When we use another, we have only | | the picture of the end to be gained. The end, the gain, prevents rela- | | tionship, communion. In the usage of another, however gratifying and | | comforting it may be, there is always fear. To avoid this fear, we must | | possess. From this possession there arises envy, suspicion, and constant | | conflict. Such a relationship can never bring about happiness.A society | | whose structure is based on mere need, whether physiological or psycho- | | logical, must breed conflict, confusion and misery. Society is the pro- | | jection of yourself in relation with another, in which the need and the | | use are predominant. When you use another for your need, physically or | | psychologically, in actuality there is no relationship at all; you real- | | ly have no contact with the other, no communion with the other. How can | | you have communion with the other when the other is used as a piece of | | furniture, for your convenience and comfort? So, it is essential to un- | | derstand the significance of relationship in daily life. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, March 06, 2030 (65) (Ash Wednesday ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[05]--[05]--[04]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E ' M E ' I S T H E P O S S E S S I O N | | | | Renunciation, self-sacrifice, is not a gesture of greatness, to be | | praised and copied. We possess because without possession we are not. | | Possessions are many and varied. One who possesses no worldly things may | | be attached to knowledge, to ideas; another may be attached to virtue, | | another to experience, another to name and fame, and so on. Without pos- | | sessions, the "me" is not; the "me" is the possession, the furniture, | | the virtue, the name. In its fear of not being, the mind is attached to | | name, to furniture, to value; and it will drop these in order to be at a | | higher level, the higher being the more gratifying, the more permanent. | | The fear of uncertainty, of not being, makes for attachment, for posses- | | sion. When the possession is unsatisfactory or painful, we renounce it | | for a more pleasurable attachment. The ultimate gratifying possession is | | the word God, or its substitute, the State....So long as you are unwill- | | ing to be nothing, which in fact you are, you must inevitably breed sor- | | row and antagonism. The willingness to be nothing is not a matter of re- | | nunciation, of enforcement, inner or outer, but of seeing the truth of | | what is. Seeing the truth of what is brings freedom from the fear of in- | | security, the fear which breeds attachment and leads to the illusion of | | detachment, renunciation. The love of what is is the beginning of wis- | | dom. Love alone shares, it alone can commune; but renunciation and | | self-sacrifice are the ways of isolation and illusion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, March 07, 2030 (66) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[06]--[06]--[05]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O E X P L O I T I S T O B E E X P L O I T E D | | | | As most of us seek power in one form or another, the hierarchical prin- | | ciple is established, the novice and the initiate, the pupil and the | | Master, and even among the Masters there are degrees of spiritual | | growth. Most of us love to exploit and be exploited, and this system of- | | fers the means, whether hidden or open. To exploit is to be exploited. | | The desire to use others for your psychological necessities makes for | | dependence, and when you depend you must hold, possess; and what you | | possess, possesses you. Without dependence, subtle or gross, without | | possessing things, people and ideas, you are empty, a thing of no impor- | | tance. You want to be something, and to avoid the gnawing fear of being | | nothing you belong to this or that organization, to this or that ideolo- | | gy, to this church or that temple; so you are exploited, and you in your | | turn exploit. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, March 08, 2030 (67) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[07]--[07]--[06]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E C U L T I V A T I O N O F D E T A C H M E N T | | | | There is only attachment; there is no such thing as detachment. The mind | | invents detachment as a reaction to the pain of attachment. When you re- | | act to attachment by becoming "detached," you are attached to something | | else. So that whole process is one of attachment. You are attached to | | your wife or your husband, to your children, to ideas, to tradition, to | | authority, and so on; and your reaction to that attachment is detachmen- | | t. The cultivation of detachment is the outcome of sorrow, pain. You | | want to escape from the pain of attachment, and your escape is to find | | something to which you think you can be attached. So there is only at- | | tachment, and it is a stupid mind that cultivates detachment. All the | | books say, "Be detached," but what is the truth of the matter? If you | | observe your own mind, you will see an extraordinary thing-that through | | cultivating detachment, your mind is becoming attached to something | | else. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, March 09, 2030 (68) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[08]--[08]--[07]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A T T A C H M E N T I S S E L F - D E C E P T I O N | | | | We are the things we possess, we are that to which we are attached. At- | | tachment has no nobility. Attachment to knowledge is not different from | | any other gratifying addiction. Attachment is self-absorption, whether | | at the lowest or at the highest level.Attachment is self-deception, it | | is an escape from the hollowness of the self. The things to which we are | | attached- property, people, ideas -become all-important, for without the | | many things which fill its emptiness, the self is not. The fear of not | | being makes for possession; and fear breeds illusion, the bondage to | | conclusions. Conclusions, material or ideational, prevent the fruition | | of intelligence, the freedom in which alone reality can come into being; | | and without this freedom, cunning is taken for intelligence. The ways of | | cunning are always complex and destructive. It is this self-protective | | cunning that makes for attachment; and when attachment causes pain, it | | is this same cunning that seeks detachment and finds pleasure in the | | pride and vanity of renunciation. The understanding of the ways of cun- | | ning, the ways of the self, is the beginning of intelligence. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, March 10, 2030 (69) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[09]--[09]--[08]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | FACE THE FACT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS . . . | | | | We have all had the experience of tremendous loneliness, where books, | | religion, everything is gone and we are tremendously, inwardly, lonely, | | empty. Most of us can't face that emptiness, that loneliness, and we run | | away from it. Dependence is one of the things we run to, depend on, be- | | cause we can't stand being alone with ourselves. We must have the radio | | or books or talking, incessant chatter about this and that, about art | | and culture. So we come to that point when we know there is this ex- | | traordinary sense of self-isolation. We may have a very good job, work | | furiously, write books, but inwardly there is this tremendous vacuum. We | | want to fill that and dependence is one of the ways. We use dependence, | | amusement, church work, religions, drink, women, a dozen things to fill | | it up, cover it up. If we see that it is absolutely futile to try to | | cover it up, completely futile-not verbally, not with conviction and | | therefore agreement and determination-but if we see the total absurdity | | of it ... then we are faced with a fact. It is not a question of how to | | be free from dependence; that's not a fact; that's only a reaction to a | | fact. ...Why don't I face the fact and see what happens?The problem now | | arises of the observer and the observed. The observer says, "I am empty; | | I don't like it," and runs away from it. The observer says, "I am dif- | | ferent from the emptiness." But the observer is the emptiness; it is not | | emptiness seen by an observer. The observer is the observed. There is a | | tremendous revolution in thinking, in feeling, when that takes place. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, March 11, 2030 (70) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[10]--[10]--[09]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A T T A C H M E N T I S E S C A P E | | | | Just try to be aware of your conditioning. You can only know it indi- | | rectly, in relation to something else. You cannot be aware of your con- | | ditioning as an abstraction, for then it is merely verbal, without much | | significance. We are only aware of conflict. Conflict exists when there | | is no integration between challenge and response. This conflict is the | | result of our conditioning. Conditioning is attachment: attachment to | | work, to tradition, to property, to people, to ideas, and so on. If | | there were no attachment, would there be conditioning? Of course not. So | | why are we attached? I am attached to my country because through identi- | | fication with it I become somebody. I identify myself with my work, and | | the work becomes important, I am my family, my property; I am attached | | to them. The object of attachment offers me the means of escape from my | | own emptiness. Attachment is escape, and it is escape that strengthens | | conditioning. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, March 12, 2030 (71) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[11]--[11]--[10]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O B E A L O N E | | | | To be alone, which is not a philosophy of loneliness, is obviously to be | | in a state of revolution against the whole set-up of society-not only | | this society, but the communist society, the fascist, every form of so- | | ciety as organized brutality, organized power. And that means an ex- | | traordinary perception of the effects of power. Sir, have you noticed | | those soldiers rehearsing? They are not human beings any more, they are | | machines, they are your sons and my sons, standing there in the sun. | | This is happening here, in America, in Russia, and everywhere-not only | | at the governmental level, but also at the monastic level, belonging to | | monasteries, to orders, to groups who employ astonishing power. And it | | is only the mind which does not belong that can be alone. And aloneness | | is not something to be cultivated. You see this? When you see all this, | | you are out, and no governor or president is going to invite you to din- | | ner. Out of that aloneness there is humility. It is this aloneness that | | knows love-not power. The ambitious man, religious or ordinary, will n- | | ever know what love is. So, if one sees all this, then one has this | | quality of total living and therefore total action. This comes through | | self-knowledge. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, March 13, 2030 (72) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[12]--[12]--[11]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C R A V I N G I S A L W A Y S C R A V I N G | | | | To avoid suffering we cultivate detachment. Being forewarned that at- | | tachment sooner or later entails sorrow, we want to become detached. At- | | tachment is gratifying, but perceiving the pain in it, we want to be | | gratified in another manner, through detachment. Detachment is the same | | as attachment as long as it yields gratification. So what we are really | | seeking is gratification, we crave to be satisfied by whatever means.We | | are dependent or attached because it gives us pleasure, security, power, | | a sense of well-being, though in it there is sorrow and fear. We seek | | detachment also for pleasure, in order not to be hurt, not to be inward- | | ly wounded. Our search is for pleasure, gratification. Without condemn- | | ing or justifying we must try to understand this process, for unless we | | understand it there is no way out of our confusion and contradiction. | | Can craving ever be satisfied, or is it a bottomless pit? Whether we | | crave for the low or for the high, craving is always craving, a burning | | fire, and what can be consumed by it soon becomes ashes; but craving for | | gratification still remains, ever burning, ever consuming, and there is | | no end to it. Attachment and detachment are equally binding, and both | | must be transcended. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, March 14, 2030 (73) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[13]--[13]--[12]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I N T E N S I T Y F R E E O F A L L A T T A C H M E N T | | | | In the state of passion without a cause, there is intensity free of all | | attachment; but when passion has a cause, there is attachment and at- | | tachment is the beginning of sorrow. Most of us are attached; we cling | | to a person, to a country, to a belief, to an idea, and when the object | | of our attachment is taken away or otherwise loses its significance, we | | find ourselves empty, insufficient. This emptiness we try to fill by | | clinging to something else, which again becomes the object of our pas- | | sion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, March 15, 2030 (74) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[14]--[14]--[13]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | R E L A T I O N S H I P I S A M I R R O R | | | | Surely, only in relationship the process of what I am unfolds, does it | | not? Relationship is a mirror in which I see myself as I am; but as most | | of us do not like what we are, we begin to discipline, either positively | | or negatively, what we perceive in the mirror of relationship. That is, | | I discover something in relationship, in the action of relationship, and | | I do not like it. So, I begin to modify what I do not like, what I per- | | ceive as being unpleasant. I want to change it-which means I already | | have a pattern of what I should be. The moment there is a pattern of | | what I should be, there is no comprehension of what I am. The moment I | | have a picture of what I want to be, or what I should be, or what I | | ought not to be-a standard according to which I want to change my- | | self-then, surely, there is no comprehension of what I am at the moment | | of relationship.I think it is really important to understand this, for I | | think this is where most of us go astray. We do not want to know what we | | actually are at a given moment in relationship. If we are concerned | | merely with self-improvement, there is no comprehension of ourselves, of | | what is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, March 16, 2030 (75) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[15]--[15]--[14]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E F U N C T I O N O F R E L A T I O N S H I P | | | | Relationship is inevitably painful, which is shown in our every day ex- | | istence. If in relationship there is no tension, it ceases to be rela- | | tionship and merely becomes a comfortable sleep-state, an opiate-which | | most people want and prefer. Conflict is between this craving for com- | | fort and the factual, between illusion and actuality. If you recognize | | the illusion then you can, by putting it aside, give your attention to | | the understanding of relationship. But if you seek security in relation- | | ship, it becomes an investment in comfort, in illusion-and the greatness | | of relationship is its very insecurity. By seeking security in relation- | | ship you are hindering its function, which brings its own peculiar ac- | | tions and misfortunes.Surely, the function of relationship is to reveal | | the state of one's whole being. Relationship is a process of self-reve- | | lation, of self-knowledge. This self-revelation is painful, demanding | | constant adjustment, pliability of thought-emotion. It is a painful | | struggle, with periods of enlightened peace...But most of us avoid or | | put aside the tension in relationship, preferring the ease and comfort | | of satisfying dependency, an unchallenged security, a safe anchorage. | | Then family and other relationships become a refuge, the refuge of the | | thoughtless. When insecurity creeps into dependency, as it inevitably | | does, then that particular relationship is cast aside and a new one tak- | | en on in the hope of finding lasting security; but there is no security | | in relationship, and dependency only breeds fear. Without understanding | | the process of security and fear, relationship becomes a binding hin- | | drance, a way of ignorance. Then all existence is struggle and pain, and | | there is no way out of it save in right thinking, which comes through | | self-knowledge. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, March 17, 2030 (76) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[16]--[16]--[15]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H O W C A N T H E R E B E R E A L L O V E ? | | | | The image you have about a person, the image you have about your politi- | | cians, the prime minister, your god, your wife, your children-that image | | is being looked at. And that image has been created through your rela- | | tionship, or through your fears, or through your hopes. The sexual and | | other pleasures you have had with your wife, your husband, the anger, | | the flattery, the comfort, and all the things that your family life | | brings-a deadly life it is-have created an image about your wife or hus- | | band. With that image you look. Similarly, your wife or husband has an | | image about you. So the relationship between you and your wife or hus- | | band, between you and the politician is really the relationship between | | these two images. Right? That is a fact. How can two images which are | | the result of thought, of pleasure and so on, have any affection or | | love?So the relationship between two individuals, very close together or | | very far, is a relationship of images, symbols, memories. And in that, | | how can there be real love? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, March 18, 2030 (77) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[17]--[17]--[16]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W E A R E T H A T W H I C H W E P O S S E S S | | | | To understand relationship, there must be a passive awareness, which | | does not destroy relationship. On the contrary, it makes relationship | | much more vital, much more significant. Then there is in that relation- | | ship a possibility of real affection; there is a warmth, a sense of n- | | earness, which is not mere sentiment or sensation. And if we can so ap- | | proach or be in that relationship to everything, then our problems will | | be easily solved-the problems of property, the problems of possession. | | Because, we are that which we possess. The man who possesses money is | | the money. The man who identifies himself with property is the property, | | or the house, or the furniture. Similarly with ideas, or with people; | | and when there is possessiveness, there is no relationship. But most of | | us possess because we have nothing else, if we do not possess. We are | | empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with fur- | | niture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell | | makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living; and with that we | | are satisfied. And when there is a disruption, a breaking away of that, | | then there is sorrow because then you suddenly discover yourself as you | | are-an empty shell, without much meaning. So, to be aware of the whole | | content of relationship is action; and from that action there is a pos- | | sibility of true relationship, a possibility of discovering its great | | depth, its great significance, and of knowing what love is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, March 19, 2030 (78) ☻ ♓ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[18]--[18]--[17]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E I N G R E L A T E D | | | | Without relationship, there is no existence: to be is to be related.... | | Most of us do not seem to realize this-that the world is my relationship | | with others, whether one or many. My problem is that of relationship. | | What I am, that I project; and obviously, if I do not understand myself, | | the whole of relationship is one of confusion in ever-widening circles. | | So, relationship becomes of extraordinary importance, not with the so-- | | called mass, the crowd, but in the world of my family and friends, how- | | ever small that may be-my relationship with my wife, my children, my | | neighbour. In a world of vast organizations, vast mobilizations of peo- | | ple, mass movements, we are afraid to act on a small scale; we are | | afraid to be little people clearing up our own patch. We say to our- | | selves, "What can I personally do? I must join a mass movement in order | | to reform." On the contrary, real revolution takes place not through | | mass movements but through the inward revaluation of relationship-that | | alone is real reformation, a radical, continuous revolution. We are | | afraid to begin on a small scale. Because the problem is so vast, we | | think we must meet it with large numbers of people, with a great organi- | | zation, with mass movements. Surely, we must begin to tackle the problem | | on a small scale, and the small scale is the "me" and the "you." When I | | understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes | | love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of | | warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, | | that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action | | which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts | | with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving | | factor which is love. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, March 20, 2030 (79) (Holi (India) ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[19]--[19]--[18]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | YOU AND I ARE THE PROBLEM, NOT THE WORLD | | | | The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, | | is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each | | other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the | | world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we | | must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are | | the world, and our problems are the world's problems. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, March 21, 2030 (80) (March Equinox ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[20]--[20]--[19]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LIVING ALONE | | | | We want to run away from our loneliness, with its panicky fears, so we | | depend on another, we enrich ourselves with companionship, and so on. We | | are the prime movers, and other become pawns in our game; and when the | | pawn turns and demands something in return, we are shocked and grieved. | | If our own fortress is strong, without a weak spot in it, this battering | | from the outside is of little consequence to us. The peculiar tendencies | | that arise with advancing age must be understood and corrected while we | | are still capable of detached and tolerant self-observation and study; | | our fears must be observed and understood now. Our energies must be di- | | rected, not merely to the understanding of the outward pressures and de- | | mands for which we are responsible, but to the comprehension of our- | | selves, of our loneliness, our fears, demands, and frailties.There is no | | such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live | | without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and | | greater awareness for self-discovery. A "lone" existence, without this | | keen and flowing awareness, strengthens the already dominant tendencies, | | thus causing unbalance, distortion. It is now that one has to become | | aware of the set and peculiar habits of thought-feeling which come with | | age, and by understanding them make away with them. Inward riches alone | | bring peace and joy. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, March 22, 2030 (81) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[21]--[21]--[20]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F R E E D O M F R O M F E A R | | | | Is it possible for the mind to empty itself totally of fear? Fear of any | | kind breeds illusion; it makes the mind dull, shallow. Where there is | | fear there is obviously no freedom, and without freedom there is no love | | at all. And most of us have some form of fear; fear of darkness, fear of | | public opinion, fear of snakes, fear of physical pain, fear of old age, | | fear of death. We have literally dozens of fears. And is it possible to | | be completely free of fear?We can see what fear does to each one of us. | | It makes one tell lies; it corrupts one in various ways; it makes the | | mind empty, shallow. There are dark corners in the mind which can never | | be investigated and exposed as long as one is afraid. Physical self-pro- | | tection, the instinctive urge to keep away from the venomous snake, to | | draw back from the precipice, to avoid falling under the tramcar, and so | | on, is sane, normal, healthy. But I am asking about the psychological | | self-protectiveness which makes one afraid of disease, of death, of an | | enemy. When we seek fulfilment in any form, whether through painting, | | through music, through relationship, or what you will, there is always | | fear. So, what is important is to be aware of this whole process of one- | | self, to observe, to learn about it, and not ask how to get rid of fear. | | When you merely want to get rid of fear, you will find ways and means of | | escaping from it, and so there can never be freedom from fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, March 23, 2030 (82) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[22]--[22]--[21]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D E A L I N G W I T H F E A R ? | | | | One is afraid of public opinion, afraid of not achieving, not fulfill- | | ing, afraid of not having the opportunity; and through it all there is | | this extraordinary sense of guilt-one has done a thing that one should | | not have done; the sense of guilt in the very act of doing; one is | | healthy and others are poor and unhealthy; one has food and others have | | no food. The more the mind is inquiring, penetrating, asking, the | | greater the sense of guilt, anxiety. ...Fear is the urge that seeks a | | Master, a guru; fear is this coating of respectability, which every one | | loves so dearly-to be respectable. Do you determine to be courageous to | | face events in life, or merely rationalize fear away, or find explana- | | tions that will give satisfaction to the mind that is caught in fear? | | How do you deal with it? Turn on the radio, read a book, go to a temple, | | cling to some form of dogma, belief?Fear is the destructive energy in | | man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of | | extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas | | and beliefs. If you see that fear is destructive, then how do you pro- | | ceed to wipe the mind clean? You say that by probing into the cause of | | fear you would be free of fear. Is that so? Trying to uncover the cause | | and knowing the cause of fear does not eliminate fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, March 24, 2030 (83) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[23]--[23]--[22]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E D O O R T O U N D E R S T A N D I N G | | | | You cannot wipe away fear without understanding, without actually seeing | | into the nature of time, which means thought, which means word. From | | that arises the question: Is there a thought without word, is there a | | thinking without the word which is memory? Sir, without seeing the na- | | ture of the mind, the movement of the mind, the process of self-knowing, | | merely saying that I must be free of it, has very little meaning. You | | have to take fear in the context of the whole of the mind. To see, to go | | into all this, you need energy. Energy does not come through eating food | | - that is a part of physical necessity. But to see, in the sense I am | | using that word, requires an enormous energy; and that energy is dissi- | | pated when you are battling with words, when you are resisting, condemn- | | ing, when you are full of opinions which are preventing you from look- | | ing, seeing - your energy is all gone in that. So in the consideration | | of this perception, this seeing, again you open the door. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, March 25, 2030 (84) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[24]--[24]--[23]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F E A R M A K E S U S O B E Y | | | | Why do we do all this-obey, follow, copy? Why? Because, we are fright- | | ened inwardly to be uncertain. We want to be certain-we want to be cer- | | tain financially, we want to be certain morally-we want to be approved, | | we want to be in a safe position, we want never to be confronted with | | trouble, pain, suffering, we want to be enclosed. So, fear, consciously | | or unconsciously, makes us obey the Master, the leader, the priest, the | | government. Fear also controls us from doing something which may be | | harmful to others, because we will be punished. So behind all these ac- | | tions, greeds, pursuits, lurks this desire for certainty, this desire to | | be assured. So, without resolving fear, without being free from fear, | | merely to obey or to be obeyed has little significance; what has meaning | | is to understand this fear from day to day and how fear shows itself in | | different ways. It is only when there is freedom from fear that there is | | that inward quality of understanding, that aloneness in which there is | | no accumulation of knowledge or of experience, and it is that alone | | which gives extraordinary clarity in the pursuit of the real. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, March 26, 2030 (85) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[25]--[25]--[24]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F A C E - T O - F A C E W I T H T H E F A C T | | | | Are we afraid of a fact or of an idea about the fact? Are we afraid of | | the thing as it is, or are we afraid of what we think it is? Take death, | | for example. Are we afraid of the fact of death or of the idea of death? | | The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another. Am I | | afraid of the word death or of the fact itself? Because I am afraid of | | the word, of the idea, I never understand the fact, I never look at the | | fact, I am never in direct relation with the fact. It is only when I am | | in complete communion with the fact that there is no fear. If I am not | | in communion with the fact, then there is fear, and there is no commu- | | nion with the fact so long as I have an idea, an opinion, a theory, | | about the fact, so I have to be very clear whether I am afraid of the | | word, the idea, or the fact. If I am face-to-face with the fact, there | | is nothing to understand about it: the fact is there, and I can deal | | with it. If I am afraid of the word, then I must understand the word, go | | into the whole process of what the word, the term, implies.It is my | | opinion, my idea, my experience, my knowledge about the fact, that cre- | | ates fear. So long as there is verbalization of the fact, giving the | | fact a name and therefore identifying or condemning it, so long as | | thought is judging the fact as an observer, there must be fear. Thought | | is the product of the past; it can only exist through verbalization, | | through symbols, through images. So long as thought is regarding or | | translating the fact, there must be fear. Thought is the product of the | | past, it can only exist through verbalization, through symbols, through | | images; so long as thought is regarding or translating the fact, there | | must be fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, March 27, 2030 (86) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[26]--[26]--[25]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C O N T A C T I N G F E A R | | | | There is physical fear. You know, when you see a snake, a wild animal, | | instinctively there is fear; that is a normal, healthy, natural fear. It | | is not fear, it is a desire to protect oneself-that is normal. But the | | psychological protection of oneself-that is, the desire to be always | | certain-breeds fear. A mind that is seeking always to be certain is a | | dead mind, because there is no certainty in life, there is no permanen- | | cy.... When you come directly into contact with fear, there is a re- | | sponse of the nerves and all the rest of it. Then, when the mind is no | | longer escaping through words or through activity of any kind, there is | | no division between the observer and the thing observed as fear. It is | | only the mind that is escaping that separates itself from fear. But when | | there is a direct contract with fear, there is no observer, there is no | | entity that says, "I am afraid." So, the moment you are directly in con- | | tact with life, with anything, there is no division-it is this division | | that breeds competition, ambition, fear.So what is important is not "how | | to be free of fear?" If you seek a way, a method, a system to be rid of | | fear, you will be everlastingly caught in fear. But if you understand | | fear-which can only take place when you come directly in contact with | | it, as you are in contact with hunger, as you are directly in contact | | when you are threatened with losing your job-then you do something; only | | then will you find that all fear ceases-we mean all fear, not fear of | | this kind or of that kind. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, March 28, 2030 (87) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[27]--[27]--[26]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F E A R I S N O N - A C C E P T A N C E O F W H A T I S | | | | Fear finds various escapes. The common variety is identification, is it | | not?-identification with country, with society, with an idea. Haven't | | you noticed how you respond when you see a procession, a military pro- | | cession or a religious procession, or when the country is in danger of | | being invaded? You then identify yourself with the country, with a be- | | ing, with an ideology. There are other times when you identify yourself | | with your child, with your wife, with a particular form of action, or | | inaction. Identification is a process of self-forgetfulness. So long as | | I am conscious of the "me" I know there is pain, there is struggle, | | there is constant fear. But if I can identify myself with something | | greater, with something worthwhile, with beauty, with life, with truth, | | with belief, with knowledge, at least temporarily, there is an escape | | from the "me," is there not? If I talk about "my country" I forget my- | | self temporarily, do I not? If I can say something about God, I forget | | myself. If I can identify myself with my family, with a group, with a | | particular party, with a certain ideology, then there is a temporary | | escape.Do we now know what fear is? Is it not the non-acceptance of what | | is? We must understand the word acceptance. I am not using that word as | | meaning the effort made to accept. There is no question of accepting | | when I perceive what is. When I do not see clearly what is, then I bring | | in the process of acceptance. Therefore fear is the non-acceptance of | | what is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, March 29, 2030 (88) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[28]--[28]--[27]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E D I S O R D E R T H A T T I M E C R E A T E S | | | | Time means moving from what is to "what should be." I am afraid, but one | | day I shall be free of fear; therefore, time is necessary to be free of | | fear-at least, that is what we think. To change from what is to "what | | should be" involves time. Now, time implies effort in that interval be- | | tween what is and "what should be." I don't like fear, and I am going to | | make an effort to understand, to analyse, to dissect it, or I am going | | to discover the cause of it, or I am going to escape totally from it. | | All this implies effort-and effort is what we are used to. We are always | | in conflict between what is and "what should be." The "what I should be" | | is an idea, and the idea is fictitious, it is not "what I am," which is | | the fact; and the "what I am" can be changed only when I understand the | | disorder that time creates....So, is it possible for me to be rid of | | fear totally, completely, on the instant? If I allow fear to continue, I | | will create disorder all the time; therefore, one sees that time is an | | element of disorder, not a means to be ultimately free of fear. So there | | is no gradual process of getting rid of fear, just as there is no gradu- | | al process of getting rid of the poison of nationalism. If you have na- | | tionalism and you say that eventually there will be the brotherhood of | | man, in the interval there are wars, there are hatreds, there is misery, | | there is all this appalling division between man and man; therefore, | | time is creating disorder. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, March 30, 2030 (89) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[29]--[29]--[28]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H O W D O I L O O K A T A N G E R ? | | | | Obviously,I look at it as an observer being angry. I say, "I am angry." | | At the moment of anger there is no "I"; the "I" comes in immediately | | afterwards - which means time. Can I look at the fact without the factor | | of time, which is the thought, which is the word? This happens when | | there is the looking without the observer. See where it has led me. I | | now begin to perceive a way of looking - perceiving without the opinion, | | the conclusion, without condemning, judging. Therefore I perceive that | | there can be "seeing" without thought, which is the word. So the mind is | | beyond the clutches of ideas, of the conflict of duality and all the | | rest of it. So, can I look at fear not as an isolated fact?If you iso- | | late a fact that has not opened the door to the whole universe of the | | mind, then let us go back to the fact and begin again by taking another | | fact so that you yourself will begin to see the extraordinary thing of | | the mind, so that you have the key, you can open the door, you can burst | | into that.......By considering one fear - the fear of death, the fear of | | the neighbour, the fear of your spouse dominating over you, you know the | | whole business of domination - will that open the door? That is all that | | matters-not how to be free of it - because the moment you open the door, | | fear is completely wiped away. The mind is the result of time, and time | | is the word - how extraordinary to think of it! Time is thought; it is | | thought that breeds fear, it is thought that breeds the fear of death; | | and it is time which is thought, that has in its hand the whole intrica- | | cies and the subtleties of fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, March 31, 2030 (90) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | APR/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[30]--[30]--[29]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E R O O T O F A L L F E A R | | | | The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend | | engenders fear. The state of the non fear is not negation, it is not the | | opposite of fear nor is it courage. In understanding the cause of fear, | | there is its cessation, not the becoming courageous, for in all becoming | | there is the seed of fear. Dependence on things, on people, or on ideas | | breeds fear; dependence arises from ignorance, from the lack of self-- | | knowledge, from inward poverty; fear causes uncertainty of mind-heart, | | preventing communication and understanding. Through self-awareness we | | begin to discover and so comprehend the cause of fear, not only the su- | | perficial but the deep casual and accumulative fears. Fear is both in- | | born and acquired; it is related to the past, and to free thought-feel- | | ing from it, the past must be comprehended through the present. The past | | is ever wanting to give birth to the present which becomes the identify- | | ing memory of the "me"and the "mine," the "I." The self is the root of | | all fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ A-P-R-I-L 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 03[☺] 11[◑] 18[☻] 24[☽] | 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20[21] __[♈ARIES]__/ 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 / [♉TAURUS] Monthly Goals: Monday, April 01, 2030 (91) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ +---[01]--[31]--[30]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E R E I S O N L Y C R A V I N G | | | | There is no entity separate from craving; there is only craving, there | | is no one who craves. Craving takes on different masks at different | | times, depending on its interests. The memory of these varying interests | | meets the new, which brings about conflict, and so the chooser is born, | | establishing himself as an entity separate and distinct from craving. | | But the entity is not different from its qualities. The entity who tries | | to fill or run away from emptiness, incompleteness, loneliness, is not | | different from that which he is avoiding; he is it. He cannot run away | | from himself; all that he can do is to understand himself. He is his | | loneliness, his emptiness; and as long as he regards it as something | | separate from himself; he will be in illusion and endless conflict. When | | he directly experiences that he is his own loneliness, then only can | | there be freedom from fear. Fear exists only in relationship to an idea, | | and idea is the response of memory as thought. Thought is the result of | | experience; and though it can ponder over emptiness, have sensations | | with regard to it, it cannot know emptiness directly. The word loneli- | | ness, with its memories of pain and fear, prevents the experiencing of | | it afresh. The word is memory, and when the word is no longer signifi- | | cant, then the relationship between the experiencer and the experienced | | is wholly different; then that relationship is direct and not through a | | word, through memory; then the experiencer is the experience, which | | alone brings freedom from fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, April 02, 2030 (92) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ JUL/ +---[02]--[01]--[01]--[31] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | U N D E R S T A N D I N G D E S I R E | | | | We have to understand desire; and it is very difficult to understand | | something which is so vital, so demanding, so urgent because in the very | | fulfilment of desire passion is engendered, with the pleasure and the | | pain of it. And if one is to understand desire, obviously, there must be | | no choice. You cannot judge desire as being good or bad, noble or igno- | | ble, or say, "I will keep this desire and deny that one." All that must | | be set aside if we are to find out the truth of desire-the beauty of it, | | the ugliness or whatever it may be. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, April 03, 2030 (93) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[03]--[02]--[02]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D E S I R E H A S T O B E U N D E R S T O O D | | | | Let us goon to consider desire. We know, do we not, the desire which | | contradicts itself, which is tortured, pulling in different directions; | | the pain, the turmoil, the anxiety of desire, and the disciplining, the | | controlling. And in the everlasting battle with it we twist it out of | | all shape and recognition; but it is there, constantly watching, wait- | | ing, pushing. Do what you will, sublimate it, escape from it, deny it or | | accept it, give it full rein-it is always there. And we know how the re- | | ligious teachers and others have said that we should be desireless, cul- | | tivate detachment, be free from desire-which is really absurd, because | | desire has to be understood, not destroyed. If you destroy desire, you | | may destroy life itself. If you pervert desire, shape it, control it, | | dominate it, suppress it, you may be destroying something extraordinari- | | ly beautiful. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, April 04, 2030 (94) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[04]--[03]--[03]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E Q U A L I T Y O F D E S I R E | | | | ....What happens if you do not condemn desire, do not judge it as being | | good or bad, but simply be aware of it? I wonder if you know what it | | means to be aware of something? Most of us are not aware because we have | | become so accustomed to condemning, judging, evaluating, identifying, | | choosing. Choice obviously prevents awareness because choice is always | | made as a result of conflict. To be aware when you enter a room, to see | | all the furniture, the carpet or its absence, and so on-just to see it, | | to be aware of it all without any sense of judgement-is very difficult. | | Have you ever tried to look at a person, a flower, at an idea, an emo- | | tion, without any choice, any judgement?And if one does the same thing | | with desire, if one lives with it not denying it or saying, "What shall | | I do with this desire? It is so ugly, so rampant, so violent," not giv- | | ing it a name, a symbol, not covering it with a word-then, is it any | | longer the cause of turmoil? Is desire then something to be put away, | | destroyed? We want to destroy it because one desire tears against anoth- | | er creating conflict, misery and contradiction; and one can see how one | | tries to escape from this everlasting conflict. So can one be aware of | | the totality of desire? What I mean by totality is not just one desire | | or many desires, but the total quality of desire itself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, April 05, 2030 (95) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[05]--[04]--[04]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H Y S H O U L D N ' T O N E H A V E P L E A S U R E ? | | | | You see a beautiful sunset, a lovely tree, a river that has a wide, | | curving movement, or a beautiful face, and to look at it gives great | | pleasure, delight. What is wrong with that? It seems to me the confusion | | and the misery begin when that face, that river, that cloud, that moun- | | tain becomes a memory, and this memory then demands a greater continuity | | of pleasure; we want such things repeated. We all know this. I have had | | a certain pleasure, or you have had a certain delight in something, and | | we want it repeated. Whether it be sexual, artistic, intellectual, or | | something not quite of this character, we want it repeated-and I think | | that is where pleasure begins to darken the mind and create values which | | are false, not actual.What matters is to understand pleasure, not try to | | get rid of it that is too stupid. Nobody can get rid of pleasure. But to | | understand the nature and the structure of pleasure is essential; be- | | cause if life is only pleasure, and if that is what one wants, then with | | pleasure go the misery, the confusion, the illusions, the false values | | which we create, and therefore there is no clarity. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, April 06, 2030 (96) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[06]--[05]--[05]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A H E A L T H Y , N O R M A L R E A C T I O N | | | | ...I have to find out why desire has such potency in my life. It may be | | right or it may not be right. I have to find out. I see that. Desire | | arises, which is a reaction, which is a healthy, normal reaction; other- | | wise, I would be dead. I see a beautiful thing and I say, "By Jove, I | | want that." If I didn't, I'd be dead. But in the constant pursuit of it | | there is pain. That's my problem - there is pain as well as pleasure. I | | see a beautiful woman, and she is beautiful; it would be most absurd to | | say, "No, she's not." This is a fact. But what gives continuity to the | | pleasure? Obviously it is thought, thinking about it...I think about it. | | It is no longer the direct relationship with the object, which is de- | | sire, but thought now increases that desire by thinking about it, by | | having images, pictures, ideas......Thought comes in and says, "Please, | | you must have it; that's growth; that is important; that is not impor- | | tant; this is vital for your life; this is not vital for your life."But | | I can look at it and have a desire, and that's the end of it, without | | interference of thought. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, April 07, 2030 (97) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[07]--[06]--[06]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D Y I N G T O L I T T L E T H I N G S | | | | Have you ever tried dying to a pleasure voluntarily, not forcibly? Ordi- | | narily when you die you don't want to; death comes and takes you away; | | it is not a voluntary act, except in suicide. But have you ever tried | | dying voluntarily, easily, felt that sense of the abandonment of plea- | | sure? Obviously not! At present your ideals, your pleasures, your ambi- | | tions are the things which give so-called significance to them. Life is | | living, abundance, fullness, abandonment, not a sense of the 'I' having | | significance. That is mere intellection. If you experiment with dying to | | little things-that is good enough. Just to die to little pleasures-with | | ease, with comfort, with a smile-is enough, for then you will see that | | your mind is capable of dying to many things, dying to all memories. | | Machines are taking over the functions of memory-the computers-but the | | human mind is something more than a merely mechanical habit of associa- | | tion and memory. But it cannot be that something else if it does not die | | to everything it knows.Now to seethe truth of all this, a young mind is | | essential, a mind that is not merely functioning in the field of time. | | The young mind dies to everything. Can you see the truth of that immedi- | | ately, feel the truth of it instantly? You may not see the whole ex- | | traordinary significance of it, the immense subtlety, the beauty of that | | dying, the richness of it, but even to listen to it sows the seed, and | | the significance of these words takes root-not only at the superficial, | | conscious level, but right through all the unconscious. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, April 08, 2030 (98) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[08]--[07]--[07]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S E X | | | | Sex is a problem because it would seem that in that act there is com- | | plete absence of the self. In that moment you are happy, because there | | is the cessation of self-consciousness, of the 'me'; and desiring more | | of it- more of the abnegation of the self in which there is complete | | happiness, without the past or the future demanding that complete happi- | | ness through full fusion, integration-naturally it becomes all-importan- | | t. Isn't that so? Because it is something that gives me unadulterated | | joy, complete self forgetfulness, I want more and more of it. Now, why | | do I want more of it? Because, everywhere else I am in conflict, every- | | where else, at all the different levels of existence, there is the | | strengthening of the self. Economically, socially, religiously, there is | | the constant thickening of self-consciousness, which is conflict. After | | all, you are self-conscious only when there is conflict. Self-conscious- | | ness is in its very nature the result of conflict....So, the problem is | | not sex, surely, but how to be free from the self. You have tasted that | | state of being in which the self is not, if only for a few seconds, if | | only for a day, or what you will; and where the self is, there is con- | | flict, there is misery, there is strife. So, there is the constant long- | | ing for more of that self-free state. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, April 09, 2030 (99) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[09]--[08]--[08]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E U L T I M A T E E S C A P E | | | | What do we mean by the problem of sex? Is it the act, or is it a thought | | about the act? Surely, it is not the act. The sexual act is no problem | | to you any more than eating is a problem to you, but if you think about | | eating or anything else all day long because you have nothing else to | | think about, it becomes a problem to you. ....Why do you build it up, | | which you are obviously doing? The cinemas, the magazines, the stories, | | the way women dress, everything is building up your thought of sex. And | | why does the mind build it up, why does the mind think about sex at all? | | Why, sirs and ladies? It is your problem. Why? Why has it become a cen- | | tral issue in your life? When there are so many things calling, demand- | | ing your attention, you give complete attention to the thought of sex. | | What happens, why are your minds so occupied with it? Because that is a | | way of ultimate escape, is it not? It is a way of complete self-forget- | | fulness. For the time being, at least for the moment, you can forget y- | | ourself-and there is no other way of forgetting yourself. Everything | | else you do in life gives emphasis to the "me," to the self. Your busi- | | ness, your religion, your gods, your leaders, your political and econom- | | ic actions, your escapes, your social activities, your joining one party | | and rejecting another-all that is emphasizing and giving strength to the | | "me" ...When there is only one thing in your life which is an avenue to | | ultimate escape, to complete forgetfulness of yourself if only for a few | | seconds, you cling to it because that is the only moment you are hap- | | py....So, sex becomes an extraordinary difficult and complex problem as | | long as you do not understand the mind which thinks about the problem. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, April 10, 2030 (100) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[10]--[09]--[09]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W E H A V E M A D E S E X A P R O B L E M | | | | Why is it that whatever we touch we turn into a problem? ... Why has sex | | become a problem? Why do we submit to living with problems; why do we | | not put an end to them? Why do we not die to our problems instead of | | carrying them day after day, year after year? Surely, sex is a relevant | | question, which I shall answer presently, but there is the primary ques- | | tion: why do we make life into a problem? Working, sex, earning money, | | thinking, feeling, experiencing, you know, the whole business of liv- | | ing-why is it a problem? Is it not essentially because we always think | | from a particular point of view, from a fixed point of view? We are al- | | ways thinking from a centre towards the periphery, but the periphery is | | the centre for most of us, and so anything we touch is superficial. But | | life is not superficial; it demands living completely, and because we | | are living only superficially, we know only superficial reaction. What- | | ever we do on the periphery must inevitably create a problem, and that | | is our life-we live in the superficial and we are content to live there | | with all the problems of the superficial. So, problems exist as long as | | we live in the superficial, on the periphery-the periphery being the | | "me" and its sensations, which can be externalized or made subjective, | | which can be identified with the universe, with the country, or with | | some other thing made up by the mind. So, as long as we live within the | | field of the mind there must be complications, there must be problems; | | and that is all we know. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, April 11, 2030 (101) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[11]--[10]--[10]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H A T D O Y O U M E A N B Y L O V E ? | | | | Love is the unknowable. It can be realized only when the known is under- | | stood and transcended. Only when the mind is free of the known, then on- | | ly there will be love. So, we must approach love negatively, not posi- | | tively.What is love to most of us? With us, when we love, in it there is | | possessiveness, dominance, or subservience. From this possession arises | | jealously and fear of loss, and we legalize this possessive instinct. | | From possessiveness arise jealousy and the innumerable conflicts with | | which each one is familiar. Possessiveness, then, is not love. Nor is | | love sentimental. To be sentimental, to be emotional, excludes love. | | Sensitivity and emotions are merely sensations....Love alone can trans- | | form insanity, confusion, and strife. No system, no theory of the left | | or of the right can bring peace and happiness to man. Where there is | | love, there is no possessiveness, no envy; there is mercy and compas- | | sion, not in theory, but actually-for your wife and for your children, | | for your neighbour and for your servant....Love alone can bring about | | mercy and beauty, order and peace. There is love with its blessing when | | "you" cease to be. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, April 12, 2030 (102) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[12]--[11]--[11]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | AS LONG AS WE POSSESS, WE SHALL NEVER LOVE | | | | We know love as sensation, do we not? When we say we love, we know jeal- | | ousy, we know fear, we know anxiety. When you say you love someone, all | | that is implied: envy, the desire to possess, the desire to own, to dom- | | inate, the fear of loss, and so on. All this we call love, and we do not | | know love without fear, without envy, without possession; we merely ver- | | balize that state of love which is without fear, we call it impersonal, | | pure, divine, or God knows what else; but the fact is that we are jeal- | | ous, we are dominating, possessive. We shall know that state of love on- | | ly when jealousy, envy, possessiveness, domination, come to an end; and | | as long as we possess, we shall never love. ...When do you think about | | the person whom you love? You think about her when she is gone, when she | | is away, when she has left you.... So, you miss the person whom you say | | you love only when you are disturbed, when you are in suffering; and as | | long as you possess that person, you do not have to think about that | | person, because in possession there is no disturbance....Thinking comes | | when you are disturbed and you are bound to be disturbed as long as your | | thinking is what you call love. Surely, love is not a thing of the mind; | | and because the things of the mind have filled our hearts, we have no | | love. The things of the mind are jealousy, envy, ambition, the desire to | | be somebody, to achieve success. These things of the mind fill your | | hearts, and then you say you love; but how can you love when you have | | all these confusing elements in you? When there is smoke, how can there | | be a pure flame? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, April 13, 2030 (103) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[13]--[12]--[12]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O V E I S N O T A D U T Y | | | | ...When there is love, there is no duty. When you love your wife, you | | share everything with her-your property, your trouble, your anxiety, y- | | our joy. You do not dominate. You are not the man and she the woman to | | be used and thrown aside, a sort of breeding machine to carry on your | | name. When there is love, the word duty disappears. It is the man with | | no love in his heart who talks of rights and duties, and in this country | | duties and rights have taken the place of love. Regulations have become | | more important than the warmth of affection. When there is love, the | | problem is simple; when there is no love, the problem becomes complex. | | When a man loves his wife and his children, he can never possibly think | | in terms of duty and rights. Sirs, examine your own hearts and minds. I | | know you laugh it off-that is one of the tricks of the thoughtless, to | | laugh at something and push it aside. Your wife does not share your re- | | sponsibility, your wife does not share your property, she does not have | | the half of everything that you have because you consider the woman less | | than yourself, something to be kept and to be used sexually at your con- | | venience when your appetite demands it. So you have invented the words | | rights and duty; and when the woman rebels, you throw at her these word- | | s. It is a static society, a deteriorating society, that talks of duty | | and rights. If you really examine your hearts and minds, you will find | | that you have no love. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, April 14, 2030 (104) (Palm Sunday ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[14]--[13]--[13]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A T H I N G O F T H E M I N D | | | | What we call our love is a thing of the mind. Look at yourselves, Sirs, | | and Ladies, and you will see that what I am saying is obviously true; | | otherwise, our lives, our marriage, our relationships, would be entirely | | different, we would have a new society. We bind ourselves to another, | | not through fusion, but through contract, which is called love, mar- | | riage. Love does not fuse, adjust-it is neither personal nor impersonal, | | it is a state of being. The man who desires to fuse with something | | greater, to unite himself with another, is avoiding misery, confusion; | | but the mind is still in separation, which is disintegration. Love knows | | neither fusion nor diffusion, it is nether personal nor impersonal, it | | is a state of being which the mind can not find; it can describe it, | | give it a term, a name, but the word, the description, is not love. It | | is only when the mind is quiet that it shall know love, and that state | | of quietness is not a thing to be cultivated. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, April 15, 2030 (105) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[15]--[14]--[14]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I N C O N S I D E R I N G M A R R I A G E | | | | We are trying to understand the problem of marriage, in which is implied | | sexual relationship, love, companionship, communion. Obviously if there | | is no love, marriage becomes a disgrace, does it not? Then it becomes | | mere gratification. To love is one of the most difficult things, is it | | not? Love can come into being, can exist only when the self is absent. | | Without love, relationship is a pain; however gratifying, or however su- | | perficial, it leads to boredom, to routine, to habit with all its impli- | | cations. Then, sexual problems become all important. In considering mar- | | riage, whether it is necessary or not, one must first comprehend love. | | Surely, love is chaste, without love you cannot be chaste; you may be a | | celibate, whether a man or a woman, but that is not being chaste, that | | is not being pure, if there is no love. If you have an ideal of chasti- | | ty, that is if you want to become chaste, there is no love in it either | | because it is merely the desire to become something which you think is | | noble, which you think will help you to find Reality; there is no love | | there at all. Licentiousness is not chaste, it leads only to degrada- | | tion, to misery. So does the pursuit of an ideal. Both exclude love, | | both imply becoming something, indulging in something and therefore you | | become important and where you are important, love is not. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, April 16, 2030 (106) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[16]--[15]--[15]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O V E I S I N C A P A B L E O F A D J U S T M E N T | | | | Love is not a thing of the mind, is it? Love is not merely the sexual | | act, is it? Love is something which the mind can not possibly conceive. | | Love is something which cannot be formulated. And without love, you be- | | come related; without love, you marry. Then, in that marriage, you "ad- | | just yourselves" to each other. Lovely phrase! You adjust yourselves to | | each other, which is again an intellectual process, is it not?...This | | adjustment is obviously a mental process. All adjustments are. But, | | surely, love is incapable of adjustment. You know, Sirs, don't you?, | | that if you love another, there is no "adjustment." There is only com- | | plete fusion. Only when there is no love, do we begin to adjust. And | | this adjustment is called marriage. Hence, marriage fails, because it is | | the very source of conflict, a battle between two people. It is an ex- | | traordinarily complex problem, like all problems, but more so because | | the appetites, the urges, are so strong. So, a mind which is merely ad- | | justing itself can never be chaste. A mind which is seeking happiness | | through sex can never be chaste. Though you may momentarily have, in | | that act, self-abnegation, self-forgetfulness, the very pursuit of that | | happiness, which is of the mind, makes the mind unchaste. Chastity comes | | into being only where there is love. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, April 17, 2030 (107) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[17]--[16]--[16]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O L O V E I S T O B E C H A S T E | | | | This problem of sex is not simple and it cannot be solved on its own | | level. To try to solve it purely biologically is absurd; and to approach | | it through religion or to try to solve it as though it were a mere mat- | | ter of physical adjustment, of glandular action, or to hedge it in with | | taboos and condemnations is all too immature, childish, and stupid. It | | requires intelligence of the highest order. To understand ourselves in | | our relationship with another requires intelligence far more swift and | | subtle than to understand nature. But we seek to understand without in- | | telligence; we want immediate action, an immediate solution, and the | | problem becomes more and more important.... Love is not mere thought; | | thoughts are only the external action of the brain. Love is much deeper, | | much more profound, and the profundity of life can be discovered only in | | love. Without love, life has no meaning and that is the sad part of our | | existence. We grow old while still immature; our bodies become old, fat, | | and ugly, and we remain thoughtless. Though we read and talk about it, | | we have never known the perfume of life. Mere reading and verbalizing | | indicates an utter lack of the warmth of heart that enriches life; and | | without that quality of love, do what you will, join any society, bring | | about any law, you will not solve this problem. To love is to be chaste. | | Mere intellect is not chastity. The man who tries to be chaste in | | thought, is unchaste, because he has no love. Only the man who loves is | | chaste, pure, incorruptible. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, April 18, 2030 (108) ☻ ♈ (Easter Thursday ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[18]--[17]--[17]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | CONSTANT THOUGHT IS A WASTE OF ENERGY | | | | Most of us spend our life in effort, in struggle; and the effort, the | | struggle, the striving, is a dissipation of that energy. Man, throughout | | the historical period of man, has said that to find that reality or | | God-whatever name he may give to it-you must be celibate; that is, you | | take a vow of chastity and suppress, control, battle with yourself end- | | lessly all your life, to keep your vow. Look at the waste of energy! It | | is also a waste of energy to indulge. And it has far more significance | | when you suppress. The effort that has gone into suppression, into con- | | trol, into this denial of your desire distorts your mind, and through | | that distortion you have a certain sense of austerity which becomes | | harsh. Please listen. Observe it in yourself and observe the people | | around you. And observe this waste of energy, the battle. Not the impli- | | cations of sex, not the actual act, but the ideals, the images, the | | pleasure-the constant thought about them is a waste of energy. And most | | people waste their energy either through denial, or through a vow of | | chastity, or in thinking about it endlessly. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, April 19, 2030 (109) (Easter Friday ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[19]--[18]--[18]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E I D E A L I S T C A N N O T K N O W L O V E | | | | Those who are trying to be celibate in order to achieve God are unchaste | | for they are seeking a result or gain and so substituting the end, the | | result, for sex-which is fear. Their hearts are without love, and there | | can be no purity, and a pure heart alone can find reality. A disciplined | | heart, a suppressed heart, cannot know what love is. It cannot know love | | if it is caught in habit, in sensation-religious or physical, psycholog- | | ical or sensate. The idealist is an imitator and therefore he cannot | | know love. He cannot be generous, give himself over completely without | | the thought of himself. Only when the mind and heart are unburdened of | | fear, of the routine of sensational habits, when there is generosity and | | compassion, there is love. Such love is chaste. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, April 20, 2030 (110) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[20]--[19]--[19]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | U N D E R S T A N D I N G P A S S I O N | | | | Is it a religious life to punish oneself? Is mortification of the body | | or of the mind a sign of understanding? Is self-torture a way to reali- | | ty? Is chastity denial? Do you think you can go far through renuncia- | | tion? Do you really think there can be peace through conflict? Does not | | the means matter infinitely more than the end? The end may be, but the | | means is. The actual, the what is, must be understood and not smothered | | by determinations, ideals and clever rationalizations. Sorrow is not the | | way of happiness. The thing called passion has to be understood and not | | suppressed or sublimated, and it is no good finding a substitute for it. | | Whatever you may do, any device that you invent, will only strengthen | | that which has not been loved and understood. To love what we call pas- | | sion is to understand it. To love is to be in direct communion; and you | | cannot love something if you resent it, if you have ideas, conclusions | | about it. How can you love and understand passion if you have taken a | | vow against it? A vow is a form of resistance, and what you resist ulti- | | mately conquers you. Truth is not to be conquered; you cannot storm it; | | it will slip through your hands if you try to grasp it. Truth comes si- | | lently, without your knowing. What you know is not truth, it is only an | | idea, a symbol. The shadow is not the real. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, April 21, 2030 (111) (Easter ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[21]--[20]--[20]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M E A N S A N D E N D A R E O N E | | | | For the attainment of liberation, nothing is necessary. You cannot at- | | tain it through bargaining, through sacrifice, through elimination; it | | is not a thing that you can buy. If you do these things, you will get a | | thing of the marketplace, therefore not real. Truth cannot be bought, | | there is no means to truth; if there is a means, the end would not be | | truth, because means and end are one, they are not separate. Chastity as | | a means to liberation, to truth, is a denial of truth. Chastity is not a | | coin with which you buy it...Why do we think chastity is essential? | | ...What do we mean by sex? Not merely the act but thinking about it, | | feeling about it, anticipating it, escaping from it - that is our prob- | | lem. Our problem is sensation, wanting more and more. Watch yourself, | | don't watch your neighbour. Why are your thoughts so occupied with sex? | | Chastity can exist only when there is love, and without love there is no | | chastity. Without love, chastity is merely lust in a different form. To | | become chaste is to become something else; it is like a man becoming | | powerful, succeeding as a prominent lawyer, politician, or whatever else | | - the change is on the same level. That is not chastity but merely the | | end result of a dream, the outcome of the continual resistance to a par- | | ticular desire. ...So, chastity ceases to be a problem where there is | | love. Then life is not a problem, life is to be lived completely in the | | fullness of love, and that revolution will bring about anew world. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, April 22, 2030 (112) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[22]--[21]--[21]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O T A L A B A N D O N M E N T | | | | Perhaps you have never experienced that state of mind in which there is | | total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go. And you cannot | | abandon everything without deep passion, can you? You cannot abandon ev- | | erything intellectually or emotionally. There is total abandonment, | | surely, only when there is intense passion. Don't be alarmed by that | | word because a man who is not passionate, who is not intense, can never | | understand or feel the quality of beauty. The mind that holds something | | in reserve, the mind that has a vested interest, the mind that clings to | | position, power, prestige, the mind that is respectable, which is a hor- | | ror - such a mind can never abandon itself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, April 23, 2030 (113) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[23]--[22]--[22]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H I S P U R E F L A M E O F P A S S I O N | | | | In most of us there is very little passion. We may be lustful, we may be | | longing for something, we may be wanting to escape from something, and | | all this does give one a certain intensity. But unless we awaken and | | feel our way into this flame of passion without a cause, we shall not be | | able to understand that which we call sorrow. To understand something | | you must have passion, the intensity of complete attention. Where there | | is the passion for something, which produces contradiction, conflict, | | this pure flame of passion cannot be; and this pure flame of passion | | must exist in order to end sorrow, dissipate it completely. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, April 24, 2030 (114) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[24]--[23]--[23]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E A U T Y B E Y O N D F E E L I N G | | | | Without passion how can there be beauty? I do not mean the beauty of | | pictures, buildings, painted women, and all the rest of it. They have | | their own forms of beauty. A thing put together by man, like a cathe- | | dral, a temple, a picture, a poem, or a statue may or may not be beauti- | | ful. But there is a beauty which is beyond feeling and thought and which | | cannot be realized, understood, or known if there is not passion. So do | | not misunderstand the word passion. It is not an ugly word; it is not a | | thing you can buy in the market or talk about romantically. It has noth- | | ing whatever to do with emotion, feeling. It is not a respectable thing; | | it is a flame that destroys anything that is false. And we are always so | | afraid to allow that flame to devour the things that we hold dear, the | | things that we call important. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, April 25, 2030 (115) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[25]--[24]--[24]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A P A S S I O N F O R E V E R Y T H I N G | | | | For most of us, passion is employed only with regard to one thing, sex; | | or you suffer passionately and try to resolve that suffering. But I am | | using the word passion in the sense of a state of mind, a state of be- | | ing, a state of your inward core, if there is such a thing, that feels | | very strongly, that is highly sensitive-sensitive alike to dirt, to | | squalor, to poverty, and to enormous riches and corruption, to the beau- | | ty of a tree, of a bird, to the flow of water, and to a pond that has | | the evening sky reflected upon it. To feel all this intensely, strongly, | | is necessary. Because without passion life becomes empty, shallow , and | | without much meaning. If you cannot see the beauty of a tree and love | | that tree, if you cannot care for it intensely, you are not living. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, April 26, 2030 (116) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[26]--[25]--[25]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O V E , I A S S U R E Y O U , I S P A S S I O N | | | | You cannot be sensitive if you are not passionate. Do not be afraid of | | that word passion. Most religious books, most gurus, swamis, leaders, | | and all the rest of them, say, "Don't have passion." But if you have no | | passion, how can you be sensitive to the ugly, to the beautiful, to the | | whispering leaves, to the sunset, to a smile, to a cry? How can you be | | sensitive without a sense of passion in which there is abandonment? | | Sirs, please listen to me, and do not ask how to acquire passion. I know | | you are all passionate enough in getting a good job, or hating some poor | | chap, or being jealous of someone; but I am talking of something entire- | | ly different-a passion that loves. Love is a state in which there is no | | 'me'; love is a state in which there is no condemnation, no saying that | | sex is right or wrong, that this is good and something else is bad. Love | | is none of these contradictory things. Contradiction does not exist in | | love. And how can one love if one is not passionate? Without passion, | | how can one be sensitive? To be sensitive is to feel your neighbour sit- | | ting next to you; it is to see the ugliness of the town with its | | squalor, its filth, its poverty, and to see the beauty of the river, the | | sea, the sky. If you are not passionate, how can you be sensitive to all | | that? How can you feel a smile, a tear? Love, I assure you, is passion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, April 27, 2030 (117) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[27]--[26]--[26]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A P A S S I O N A T E M I N D I S I N Q U I R I N G | | | | Obviously there must be passion, and the question is how to revive that | | passion. Do not let us misunderstand each other. I mean passion in every | | sense, not merely sexual passion which is a very small thing. And most | | of us are satisfied with that because every other passion has been de- | | stroyed-in the office, in the factory, through following a certain job, | | routine, learning techniques-so there is no passion left; there is no | | creative sense of urgency and release. Therefore sex becomes important | | to us, and there we get lost in petty passion which becomes an enormous | | problem to the narrow, virtuous mind, or else it soon becomes a habit | | and dies. I am using the word passion as a total thing. A passionate man | | who feels strongly is not satisfied merely with some little job-whether | | it be the job of a prime minister, or of a cook, or what you will. A | | mind that is passionate is inquiring, searching, looking, asking, de- | | manding, not merely trying to find for its discontent some object in | | which it can fulfil itself and go to sleep. A passionate mind is grop- | | ing, seeking, breaking through, not accepting any tradition; it is not a | | decided mind, not a mind that has arrived, but it is a young mind that | | is ever arriving. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, April 28, 2030 (118) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[28]--[27]--[27]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | P E T T Y M I N D | | | | A passionate mind is groping, seeking, breaking through, not accepting | | any tradition; it is not a decided mind, not a mind that has arrived, | | but it is a young mind that is ever arriving.Now, how is such a mind to | | come into being? It must happen. Obviously, a petty mind cannot work at | | it. A petty mind trying to become passionate will merely reduce every- | | thing to its own pettiness. It must happen, and it can only happen when | | the mind sees its own pettiness and yet does not try to do anything | | about it. Am I making myself clear? Probably not. But as I said earlier, | | any restricted mind, however eager it is, will still be petty, and sure- | | ly that is obvious. A small mind, though it can go to the moon, though | | it can acquire a technique, though it can cleverly argue and defend, is | | still a small mind. So when the small mind says, "I must be passionate | | in order to do something worthwhile," obviously its passion will be very | | petty, will it not-like getting angry about some petty injustice or | | thinking that the whole world is changing because of some petty, little | | reform done in a potty, little village by a potty, little mind. If the | | little mind sees all that, then the very perception that it is small is | | enough; then its whole activity undergoes a change. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, April 29, 2030 (119) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[29]--[28]--[28]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O S T P A S S I O N | | | | The word is not the thing. The word passion is not passion. To feel that | | and to be caught in it without any volition or directive or purpose, to | | listen to this thing called desire, to listen to your own desires which | | you have, plenty of them, weak or strong-when you do that, you will see | | what a tremendous damage you do when you suppress desire, when you dis- | | tort it, when you want to fulfil it, when you want to do something about | | it, when you have an opinion about it. Most people have lost this pas- | | sion. Probably one has had it once in one's youth-to become a rich man, | | to have fame and to live a bourgeois or a respectable life; perhaps a | | vague muttering of that. And society-which is what you are-suppresses | | that. And so one has to adjust oneself to you who are dead, who are re- | | spectable, who have not even a spark of passion; and then one becomes a | | part of you, and thereby loses this passion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, April 30, 2030 (120) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[30]--[29]--[29]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | P A S S I O N W I T H O U T A C A U S E | | | | In the state of passion without a cause there is intensity free of all | | attachment; but when passion has a cause, there is attachment, and at- | | tachment is the beginning of sorrow. Most of us are attached, we cling | | to a person, to a country, to a belief to an idea, and when the object | | of our attachment is taken away or otherwise loses its significance, we | | find ourselves empty, insufficient. This emptiness we try to fill by | | clinging to something else, which again becomes the object of our pas- | | sion.Examine your own heart and mind. I am merely a mirror in which you | | are looking at yourself. If you don't want to look, that is quite all | | right; but if you do want to look, then look at yourself clearly, ruth- | | lessly, with intensity - not in the hope of dissolving your miseries, | | your anxieties, your sense of guilt, but in order to understand this ex- | | traordinary passion which always leads to sorrow.When passion has a | | cause it becomes lust. When there is a passion for something - for a | | person, for an idea, for some kind of fulfilment - then out of that pas- | | sion there comes contradiction, conflict, effort. You strive to achieve | | or maintain a particular state, or to recapture one that has been and is | | gone. But the passion of which I am speaking does not give rise to con- | | tradiction, conflict. It is totally unrelated to a cause, and therefore | | it is not an effect. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ M-A-Y 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 03[☺] 11[◑] 17[☻] 23[☽] | 01 02 03 04 05 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 __[♉TAURUS]__/ 20[21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 / [♊GEMINI] Monthly Goals: Wednesday, May 01, 2030 (121) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | MAY/ JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[31]--[30]--[30]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A M I N D R I C H W I T H I N N O C E N C E | | | | Truth, the real God-the real God, not the God that man has made- does | | not want a mind that has been destroyed, petty, shallow, narrow, limit- | | ed. It needs a healthy mind to appreciate it; it needs a rich mind | | -rich, not with knowledge but with innocence-a mind upon which there has | | never been a scratch of experience, a mind that is free from time. The | | gods that you have invented for your own comforts accept torture; they | | accept a mind that is being made dull. But the real thing does not want | | it; it wants a total, complete human being whose heart is full, rich, | | clear, capable of intense feeling, capable of seeing the beauty of a | | tree, the smile of a child, and the agony of a woman who has never had a | | full meal.You have to have this extraordinary feeling, this sensitivity | | to everything-to the animal, to the cat that walks across the wall, to | | the squalor, the dirt, the filth of human beings in poverty, in despair. | | You have to be sensitive-which is to feel intensely, not in any particu- | | lar direction, which is not an emotion which comes and goes, but which | | is to be sensitive with your nerves, with your eyes, with your body, | | with your ears, with your voice. You have to be sensitive completely all | | the time. Unless you are so completely sensitive, there is no intelli- | | gence. Intelligence comes with sensitivity and observation. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, May 02, 2030 (122) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ JUL/ AUG/ +---[01]--[01]--[31]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H A T R O L E H A S E M O T I O N I N L I F E ? | | | | How do emotions come into being? Very simple. They come into being | | through stimuli, through the nerves. You put a pin into me, I jump; you | | flatter me and I am delighted; you insult me and I don't like it. | | Through our senses emotions come into being. And most of us function | | through our emotion of pleasure; obviously, sir. You like to be recog- | | nized as a Hindu. Then you belong to a group, to a community, to a tra- | | dition, however old; and you like that, with the Gita, the Upanishads | | and the old traditions, mountain high. And the Muslim likes his and so | | on. Our emotions have come into being through stimuli, through environ- | | ment, and so on. It is fairly obvious.What role has emotion in life? Is | | emotion life? You understand? Is pleasure love? Is desire love? If emo- | | tion is love, there is something that changes all the time. Right? Don't | | you know all that?...So one has to realize that emotions, sentiment, en- | | thusiasm, the feeling of being good, and all that have nothing whatsoev- | | er to do with real affection, compassion. All sentiment, emotions have | | to do with thought and therefore lead to pleasure and pain. Love has no | | pain, no sorrow, because it is not the outcome of pleasure or desire. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, May 03, 2030 (123) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ AUG/ +---[02]--[02]--[01]--[31] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F E E L I N G I N T E L L I G E N C E | | | | The very first thing to do, if I may suggest it, is to find out why you | | are thinking in a certain way, and why you are feeling in a certain man- | | ner. Don't try to alter it, don't try to analyse your thoughts and your | | emotions; but become conscious of why you are thinking in a particular | | groove and from what motive you act. Although you can discover the mo- | | tive through analysis, although you may find out something through anal- | | ysis, it will not be real; it will be real only when you are intensely | | aware at the moment of the functioning of your thought and emotion; then | | you will see their extraordinary subtlety, their fine delicacy. So long | | as you have a "must" and a "must not," in this compulsion you will never | | discover that swift wandering of thought and emotion. And I am sure you | | have been brought up in the school of "must" and "must not" and hence | | you have destroyed thought and feeling. You have been bound and crippled | | by systems, methods, by your teachers. So leave all those "must" and "- | | must nots." This does not mean that there shall be licentiousness, but | | become aware of a mind that is ever saying, "I must," and "I must not." | | Then as a flower blossoms forth of a morning, so intelligence happens, | | is there, functioning, creating comprehension. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, May 04, 2030 (124) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[03]--[03]--[02]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I N T E L L E C T V S . I N T E L L I G E N C E | | | | Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Rather, intelli- | | gence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellec- | | tually and emotionally. There is a vast distinction between intellect | | and intelligence. Intellect is merely thought functioning independently | | of emotion. When intellect, irrespective of emotion, is trained in any | | particular direction, one may have great intellect, but one does not | | have intelligence, because in intelligence there is the inherent capaci- | | ty to feel as well as to reason; in intelligence both capacities are e- | | qually present, intensely and harmoniously.... If you bring your emo- | | tions into business, you say, business cannot be well managed or be hon- | | est. So you divide your mind into compartments: in one compartment you | | keep your religious interest, in another your emotions, in a third your | | business interest which has nothing to do with your intellectual and e- | | motional life. Your business mind treats life merely as a means of get- | | ting money in order to live. So this chaotic existence, this division of | | your life continues. If you really used your intelligence in business, | | that is, if your emotions and your thought were acting harmoniously, y- | | our business might fail. It probably would. And you will probably let it | | fail when you really feel the absurdity, the cruelty and the exploita- | | tion that is involved in this way of living.Until you really approach | | all of life with your intelligence, instead of merely with your intel- | | lect, no system in the world will save man from the ceaseless toil for | | bread. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, May 05, 2030 (125) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[04]--[04]--[03]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S E N T I M E N T A N D E M O T I O N B R E E D C R U E L T Y | | | | One can see that neither emotion nor sentiment has any place at all | | where love is concerned. Sentimentality and emotion are merely reactions | | of like or dislike. I like you and I get terribly enthusiastic about you | | - I like this place, oh, it is lovely and all the rest, which implies | | that I don't like the other and so on. Thus sentiment and emotion breed | | cruelty. Have you ever looked at it? Identification with the rag called | | the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that | | factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of | | your country, love of the neighbour . . .? One can see that where senti- | | ment and emotion come in, love is not. It is emotion and sentiment that | | breed the cruelty of like and dislike. And one can see also that where | | there is jealousy, there is no love, obviously. I am envious of you be- | | cause you have a better position, better job, better house, you look | | nicer, more intelligent,more awake and I am jealous of you. I don't in | | fact say I am jealous of you, but I compete with you, which is a form of | | jealousy, envy. So envy and jealousy are not love and I wipe them out; I | | don't go on talking about how to wipe them out and in the meantime con- | | tinue to be envious - I actually wipe them out as the rain washes the | | dust of many days off a leaf, I just wash them away. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, May 06, 2030 (126) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[05]--[05]--[04]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W E M U S T D I E T O A L L O U R E M O T I O N S | | | | What do we mean by emotion? Is it a sensation, a reaction, a response of | | the senses? Hate, devotion, the feeling of love or sympathy for another | | - they are all emotions. Some, like love and sympathy, we call positive, | | while others, like hate, we call negative and want to get rid of. Is | | love the opposite of hate? And is love an emotion, a sensation, a feel- | | ing that is stretched out through memory? ...So, what do we mean by | | love? Surely, love is not memory. That is very difficult for us to un- | | derstand because for most of us, love is memory. When you say that you | | love your wife or your husband, what do you mean by that? Do you love | | that which gives you pleasure? Do you love that with which you have i- | | dentified yourself and which you recognize as belonging to you? Please, | | these are facts; I am not inventing anything, so don't look horri- | | fied....It is the image, the symbol of "my wife" or "my husband" that we | | love, or think we love, not the living individual. I don't know my wife | | or my husband at all; and I can never know that person as long as know- | | ing means recognition. For recognition is based on memory - memory of | | pleasure and pain, memory of the things I have lived for, agonized over, | | the things I possess and to which I am attached. How can I love when | | there is fear, sorrow, loneliness, the shadow of despair? How can an am- | | bitious man love? And we are all very ambitious, however honourably.So, | | really to find out what love is, we must die to the past, to all our e- | | motions, the good and the bad - die effortlessly, as we would to a poi- | | sonous thing because we understand it. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, May 07, 2030 (127) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[06]--[06]--[05]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O N E M U S T H A V E G R E A T F E E L I N G S | | | | In the modern world where there are so many problems, one is apt to lose | | great feeling. I mean by that word feeling, not sentiment, not emotion- | | alism, not mere excitement, but that quality of perception, the quality | | of hearing, listening, the quality of feeling, a bird singing on a tree, | | the movement of a leaf in the sun. To feel things greatly, deeply, pene- | | tratingly, is very difficult for most of us because we have so many | | problems. Whatever we seem to touch turns into a problem. And, apparent- | | ly, there is no end to man's problems, and he seems utterly incapable of | | resolving them because the more the problems exist, the less the feel- | | ings become.I mean by"feeling" the appreciation of the curve of a | | branch, the squalor, the dirt on the road, to be sensitive to the sorrow | | of another, to be in a state of ecstasy when we see a sunset. These are | | not sentiments, these are not mere emotions. Emotion and sentiment or | | sentimentality turn to cruelty, they can be used by society; and when | | there is sentiment, sensation, then one becomes a slave to society. But | | one must have great feelings. The feeling for beauty, the feeling for a | | word, the silence between two words, and the hearing of a sound clearly | | - all that generates feeling. And one must have strong feelings, because | | it is only the feelings that make the mind highly sensitive. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, May 08, 2030 (128) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[07]--[07]--[06]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O B S E R V A T I O N W I T H O U T T H O U G H T | | | | There is no feeling without thought; and behind thought is pleasure; so | | those things go together: pleasure, the word, the thought, the feeling; | | they are not separated. Observation without thought, without feeling, | | without word is energy. Energy is dissipated by word, association, | | thought, pleasure and time; therefore there is no energy to look. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, May 09, 2030 (129) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[08]--[08]--[07]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E T O T A L I T Y O F F E E L I N G | | | | What is feeling? Feeling is like thought. Feeling is a sensation. I see | | a flower and I respond to that flower; I like it or dislike it. The like | | or the dislike is dictated by my thought, and the thought is the re- | | sponse of the background of memory. So, I say, "I like that flower," or | | "I do not like that flower;" "I like this feeling" or "I do not like | | that feeling." ...Now, is love related to feeling? Feeling is sensation, | | obviously-sensation of like and dislike, of good and bad, of good taste | | and all the rest of it. Is that feeling related to love? ... Have you | | watched your street, have you watched the way you live in your houses, | | the way you sit, the way you talk? And have you noticed all your saints | | whom you worship? For them passion is sex, and therefore they deny pas- | | sion, therefore they deny beauty-deny in the sense of putting those | | aside. So, with sensation you have put away love because you say, `Sen- | | sation will make me a prisoner, I will be a slave to sex-desire; there- | | fore I must cut it out."Therefore you have made sex into an immense | | problem. ... When you have understood feeling completely, not partially, | | when you have really understood the totality of feeling, then you will | | know what love is. When you can see the beauty of a tree, when you can | | see the beauty of a smile, when you can see the sun setting behind the | | walls of your town-see totally-then you will know what love is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, May 10, 2030 (130) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[09]--[09]--[08]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I F Y O U D O N O T N A M E T H A T F E E L I N G | | | | When you observe a feeling, that feeling comes to an end. But even | | though the feeling comes to an end, if there is an observer, a specta- | | tor, a censor, a thinker who remains apart from the feeling, then there | | is still a contradiction. So it is very important to understand how we | | look at a feeling.Take, for instance, a very common feeling: jealousy. | | We all know what it is to be jealous. Now, how do you look at your jeal- | | ousy? When you look at that feeling, you are the observer of jealousy as | | something apart from yourself. You try to change jealousy, to modify it, | | or you try to explain why you are justified in being jealous, and so on | | and so forth. So there is a being, a censor, an entity apart from jeal- | | ousy who observes it. For the moment jealousy may disappear, but it | | comes back again; and it comes back because you do not really see that | | jealousy is part of you....What I am saying is that the moment you give | | a name, a label to that feeling, you have brought it into the framework | | of the old; and the old is the observer, the separate entity who is made | | up of words, of ideas, of opinions about what is right and what is | | wrong. ... But if you don't name that feeling - which demands tremendous | | awareness, a great deal of immediate understanding - then you will find | | that there is no observer, no thinker, no centre from which you are | | judging, and that you are not different from the feeling. There is no | | `you' who feels it. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, May 11, 2030 (131) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[10]--[10]--[09]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | E M O T I O N S L E A D N O W H E R E | | | | Whether you are guided by your emotions or guided by your intellect, it | | leads to despair because it leads nowhere. But you realize that love is | | not pleasure, love is not desire.You know what pleasure is, sir? When | | you look at something or when you have a feeling, to think about that | | feeling, to dwell constantly upon that feeling gives you pleasure, and | | that pleasure you want and you repeat that pleasure over and over again. | | When a man is very ambitious or a little ambitious, that gives him plea- | | sure. When a man is seeking power, position, prestige in the name of the | | country, in the name of an idea, and all the rest of it, that gives him | | pleasure. He has no love at all, and therefore he creates mischief in | | the world. He brings about war within and without.So one has to realize | | that emotions, sentiment, enthusiasm, the feeling of being good, and all | | that have nothing whatsoever to do with real affection, compassion. All | | sentiment, emotions have to do with thought and therefore lead to plea- | | sure and pain. Love has no pain, no sorrow, because it is not the out- | | come of pleasure or desire. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, May 12, 2030 (132) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[11]--[11]--[10]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M E M O R Y N E G A T E S L O V E | | | | Is it possible to love without thinking? What do you mean by thinking? | | Thinking is a response to memories of pain or pleasure. There is no | | thinking without the residue which incomplete experience leaves. Love is | | different from emotion and feeling. Love cannot be brought into the | | field of thought; whereas feeling and emotion can be brought. Love is a | | flame without smoke, ever fresh, creative, joyous. Such love is danger- | | ous to society, to relationship. So, thought steps in, modifies, guides | | it, legalizes it, puts it out of danger; then one can live with it. Do | | you not know that when you love someone, you love the whole of mankind? | | Do you not know how dangerous it is to love man? Then, there is no bar- | | rier, no nationality; then, there is no craving for power and position, | | and things assume their values. Such a man is a danger to society.For | | the being of love, the process of memory must come to an end. Memory | | comes into being only when experience is not fully, completely under- | | stood. Memory is only the residue of experience; it is the result of a | | challenge which is not fully comprehended. Life is a process of chal- | | lenge and response. Challenge is always new but the response is ever | | old. This response, which is conditioning, which is the result of the | | past, must be understood and not disciplined or condemned away. It means | | living each day anew, fully and completely. This complete living is pos- | | sible only when there is love, when your heart is full, not with the | | words nor with the things made by the mind. Only where there is love, | | memory ceases; then every movement is a rebirth. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, May 13, 2030 (133) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[12]--[12]--[11]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D O N O T N A M E A F E E L I N G | | | | What happens when you do not name? You look at an emotion, at a sensa- | | tion, more directly and therefore have quite a different relationship to | | it, just as you have to a flower when you do not name it. You are forced | | to look at it anew. When you do not name a group of people, you are com- | | pelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as a mass. | | Therefore you are much more alert, much more observing, more understand- | | ing; you have a deeper sense of pity, love; but if you treat them all as | | the mass, it is over.If you do not label, you have to regard every feel- | | ing as it arises. When you label, is the feeling different from the la- | | bel? Or does the label awaken the feeling?...If I do not name a feeling, | | that is to say if thought is not functioning merely because of words or | | if I do not think in terms of words, images or symbols, which most of us | | do-then what happens? Surely the mind then is not merely the observer. | | When the mind is not thinking in terms of words, symbols, images, there | | is no thinker separate from the thought, which is the word. Then the | | mind is quiet, is it not? -not made quiet, it is quiet. When the mind is | | really quiet, then the feelings which arise can be dealt with immediate- | | ly. It is only when we give names to feelings and thereby strengthen | | them that the feelings have continuity; they are stored up in the cen- | | tre, from which we give further labels, either to strengthen or to com- | | municate them. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, May 14, 2030 (134) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[13]--[13]--[12]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | REMAIN WITH A FEELING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS | | | | You never remain with any feeling, pure and simple, but always surround | | it with the paraphernalia of words. The word distorts it; thought, | | whirling round it, throws it into shadow, overpowers it with mountainous | | fears and longings. You never remain with a feeling, and with nothing | | else: with hate, or with that strange feeling of beauty. When the feel- | | ing of hate arises, you say how bad it is; there is the compulsion, the | | struggle to overcome it, the turmoil of thought about it...Try remaining | | with the feeling of hate, with the feeling of envy, jealousy, with the | | venom of ambition; for after all, that's what you have in daily life, | | though you may want to live with love, or with the word 'love'. Since | | you have the feeling of hate, of wanting to hurt somebody with a gesture | | or a burning word, see if you can stay with that feeling. Can you? Have | | you ever tried? Try to remain with a feeling, and see what happens. You | | will find it amazingly difficult. Your mind will not leave the feeling | | alone; it comes rushing in with its remembrances, its associations, its | | do's and don'ts, its everlasting chatter. Pick up a piece of shell. Can | | you look at it, wonder at its delicate beauty, without saying how pretty | | it is, or what animal made it? Can you look without the movement of the | | mind? Can you live with the feeling behind the word, without the feeling | | that the word builds up? If you can, then you will discover an extraor- | | dinary thing, a movement beyond the measure of time, a spring that knows | | no summer. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, May 15, 2030 (135) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[14]--[14]--[13]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | U N D E R S T A N D I N G W O R D S | | | | I do not know if you have ever thought out or gone into this whole pro- | | cess of verbalizing, giving a name. If you have done so, it is really a | | most astonishing thing and a very stimulating and interesting thing. | | When we give a name to anything we experience, see or feel, the word be- | | comes extraordinarily significant; and word is time. Time is space, and | | the word is the centre of it. All thinking is verbalization; you think | | in words. And can the mind be free of the word? Don't say, "How am I to | | be free?" That has no meaning. But put that question to yourself and see | | how slavish you are to words like India, Gita, communism, Christian, | | Russian, American, English, the caste below you and the caste above you. | | The word love, the word God, the word meditation-what extraordinary sig- | | nificance we have given to these words and how slavish we are to them. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, May 16, 2030 (136) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[15]--[15]--[14]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M E M O R Y C L O U D S P E R C E P T I O N | | | | Are you speculating, or are you actually experiencing as we are going | | along? You do not know what a religious mind is, do you? From what you | | have said, you don't know what it means; you may have just a flutter or | | a glimpse of it, just as you see the clear, lovely blue sky when the | | cloud is broken through; but the moment you have perceived the blue sky, | | you have a memory of it, you want more of it and therefore you are lost | | in it; the more you want the word for storing it as an experience, the | | more you are lost in it. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, May 17, 2030 (137) ☻ ♉ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[16]--[16]--[15]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W O R D S C R E A T E L I M I T A T I O N S | | | | Is there a thinking without the word? When the mind is not cluttered up | | with words, then thinking is not thinking as we know; but it is an ac- | | tivity without the word, without the symbol; therefore it has no fron- | | tier-the word is the frontier.The word creates the limitation, the | | boundary. And a mind that is not functioning in words, has no limita- | | tion; it has no frontiers; it is not bound. ...Take the word love and | | see what it awakens in you, watch yourself; the moment I mention that | | word, you are beginning to smile and you sit up, you feel. So the word | | love awakens all kinds of ideas, all kinds of divisions such as carnal, | | spiritual, profane, infinite, and all the rest of it. But find out what | | love is. Surely, Sir, to find out what love is the mind must be free of | | that word and the significance of that word. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, May 18, 2030 (138) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[17]--[17]--[16]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | G O I N G B E Y O N D W O R D S | | | | To understand each other, I think it is necessary that we should not be | | caught in words; because, a word like God, for example, may have a par- | | ticular meaning for you, while for me it may represent a totally differ- | | ent formulation, or no formulation at all. So it is almost impossible to | | communicate with each other unless both of us have the intention of un- | | derstanding and going beyond mere words. The word freedom generally im- | | plies being free from something, does it not? It ordinarily means being | | free from greed, from envy, from nationalism, from anger, from this or | | that. Whereas, freedom may have quite another meaning, which is a sense | | of being free; and I think it is very important to understand this mean- | | ing....After all, the mind is made up of words, amongst other things. | | Now, can the mind be free of the word 'envy'? Experiment with this and | | you will see that words like God, truth, hate, envy, have a profound ef- | | fect on the mind. And can the mind be both neurologically and psycholog- | | ically free of these words? If it is not free of them, it is incapable | | of facing the fact of envy. When the mind can look directly at the fact | | which it calls 'envy', then the fact itself acts much more swiftly than | | the mind's endeavour to do something about the fact. As long as the mind | | is thinking of getting rid of envy through the ideal of non-envy, and so | | on, it is distracted, it is not facing the fact; and the very word envy | | is a distraction from the fact. The process of recognition is through | | the word; and the moment I recognize the feeling through the word, I | | give continuity to that feeling. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, May 19, 2030 (139) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[18]--[18]--[17]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | E X T R A O R D I N A R Y S E E I N G | | | | So we are asking, as at the beginning, can the mind come to that ex- | | traordinary seeing, not from the periphery, from the outside, from the | | boundary, but come upon it without any seeking? And to come upon it | | without seeking is the only way to find it. Because in coming upon it | | unknowingly, there is no effort, no seeking, no experience; and there is | | the total denial of all the normal practices to come into that centre, | | to that flowering. So the mind is highly sharpened, highly awake, and is | | no longer dependent upon any experience to keep itself awake.When one | | asks oneself, one may ask verbally; for most people, naturally, it must | | be verbal. And one has to realize that the word is not the thing-like | | the word tree' is not the tree, is not the actual fact. The actual fact | | is when one touches it, not through the word but when one actually comes | | into contact with it. Then it is an actuality -which means the word has | | lost its power to mesmerize people. For example, the word God is so | | loaded and it has mesmerized people so much that they will accept or | | deny, and function like a squirrel in a cage! So the word and the symbol | | must be set aside. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, May 20, 2030 (140) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[19]--[19]--[18]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | P E R C E P T I O N O F T R U T H I S I M M E D I A T E | | | | The verbal state has been carefully built up through centuries, in rela- | | tion between the individual and society; so the word, the verbal state | | is a social state as well as an individual state. To communicate as we | | are doing, I need memory, I need words, I must know English, and you | | must know English; it has been acquired through centuries upon cen- | | turies. The word is not only being developed in social relationships, | | but also as a reaction in that social relationship to the individual; | | the word is necessary. The question is: it has taken so long, centuries | | upon centuries, to build up the symbolical, the verbal state, and can | | that be wiped away immediately? . . . Through time are we going to get | | rid of the verbal imprisonment of the mind, which has been built up for | | centuries? Or must it break immediately? Now, you may say, "It must take | | time, I can't do it immediately." This means that you must have many | | days, this means a continuity of what has been, though it is modified in | | the process, till you reach a stage where there is no further to go. Can | | you do that? Because we are afraid, we are lazy, we are indolent, we say | | "Why bother about all this? It is too difficult"; or "I do not know what | | to do"-so you postpone, postpone, postpone. But you have to see the | | truth of the continuation and the modification of the word. The percep- | | tion of the truth of anything is immediate-not in time. Can the mind | | break through instantly, on the very questioning? Can the mind see the | | barrier of the word, understand the significance of the word in a flash | | and be in that state when the mind is no longer caught in time? You must | | have experienced this; only it is a very rare thing for most of us. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, May 21, 2030 (141) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[20]--[20]--[19]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S U B T L E T R U T H | | | | You have the flash of understanding, that extraordinary rapidity of in- | | sight, when the mind is very still, when thought is absent, when the | | mind is not burdened with its own noise. So, the understanding of any- | | thing-of a modern picture, of a child, of your wife, of your neighbour, | | or the understanding of truth which is in all things-can only come when | | the mind is very still. But such stillness can not be cultivated because | | if you cultivate a still mind, it is not a still mind, it is a dead | | mind....The more you are interested in something, the more your inten- | | tion to understand, the more simple, clear, free the mind is. Then ver- | | balization ceases. After all, thought is word, and it is the word that | | interferes. It is the screen of words, which is memory, that intervenes | | between the challenge and the response. It is the word that is respond- | | ing to the challenge, which we call intellection. So, the mind that is | | chattering, that is verbalizing, cannot understand truth-truth in rela- | | tionship, not an abstract truth. There is no abstract truth. But truth | | is very subtle. It is the subtle that is difficult to follow. It is not | | abstract. It comes so swiftly, so darkly, it cannot be held by the mind. | | Like a thief in the night, it comes darkly, not when you are prepared to | | receive it. Your reception is merely an invitation of greed. So a mind | | that is caught in the net of words cannot understand truth. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, May 22, 2030 (142) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[21]--[21]--[20]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A L L T H O U G H T I S P A R T I A L | | | | You and I realize that we are conditioned. If you say, as some people | | do, that conditioning is inevitable, then there is no problem; you are a | | slave, and that is the end of it. But if you begin to ask yourself | | whether it is at all possible to break down this limitation, this condi- | | tioning, then there is a problem; so you will have to inquire into the | | whole process of thinking, will you not? If you merely say, "I must be | | aware of my conditioning, I must think about it, analyse it in order to | | understand and destroy it," then you are exercising force. Your think- | | ing, your analysing is still the result of your background, so through | | your thought you obviously cannot break down the conditioning of which | | it is a part.Just see the problem first, don't ask what is the answer, | | the solution. The fact is that we are conditioned, and that all thought | | to understand this conditioning will always be partial; therefore there | | is never a total comprehension, and only in total comprehension of the | | whole process of thinking is there freedom. The difficulty is that we | | are always functioning within the field of the mind, which is the in- | | strument of thought, reasonable or unreasonable; and as we have seen, | | thought is always partial. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, May 23, 2030 (143) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[22]--[22]--[21]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F R E E D O M F R O M T H E S E L F | | | | 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 lis- | | tened, 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.So can I look, can | | the mind be aware of its conditioning? I think it can. Please experimen- | | t. 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. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, May 24, 2030 (144) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[23]--[23]--[22]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | AWARENESS MAY BURN AWAY THE PROBLEMS | | | | All thinking obviously is conditioned; there is no such thing as free | | thinking. Thinking can never be free, it is the outcome of our condi- | | tioning, of our background, of our culture, of our climate, of our so- | | cial, economic, political background. The very books that you read and | | the very practices that you do are all established in the background, | | and any thinking must be the result of that background. So if we can be | | aware-and we can go presently into what it signifies, what it means, to | | be aware-perhaps we shall be able to unconditional the mind without the | | process of will, without the determination to uncondition the mind. Be- | | cause the moment you determine, there is an entity who wishes, an entity | | who says, "I must uncondition my mind." That entity itself is the out- | | come of our desire to achieve a certain result, so a conflict is already | | there. So, it is possible to be aware of our conditioning, just to be | | aware?-in which there is no conflict at all. That very awareness, if al- | | lowed, may perhaps burn away the problems. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, May 25, 2030 (145) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[24]--[24]--[23]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THERE IS NO NOBLE OR BETTER CONDITIONING | | | | Does not the urge of the mind to free itself from its conditioning set | | going another pattern of resistance and conditioning? Having become | | aware of the pattern or mold in which you have grown up, you want to be | | free from it; but will not this desire to be free condition the mind a- | | gain in a different manner? The old pattern insists that you conform to | | authority, and now you are developing a new one which maintains that you | | must not conform; so you have two patterns, one in conflict with the | | other. As long as there is this inner contradiction, further condition- | | ing takes place....There is the urge that makes for conformity, and the | | urge to be free. However dissimilar these two urges may seem to be, are | | they not fundamentally similar? And if they are fundamentally similar, | | then your pursuit of freedom is vain, for you will only move from one | | pattern to another, endlessly. There is no noble or better conditioning, | | and it is this desire that has to be understood. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, May 26, 2030 (146) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[25]--[25]--[24]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F R E E D O M F R O M C O N D I T I O N I N G | | | | The desire to free oneself from conditioning only furthers conditioning. | | But if, instead of trying to suppress desire, one understands the whole | | process of desire, in that very understanding there comes freedom from | | conditioning.Freedom from conditioning is not a direct result. Do you | | understand? If I set about deliberately to free myself from my condi- | | tioning, that desire creates its own conditioning. I may destroy one | | form of conditioning, but I am caught in another. Whereas, if there is | | an understanding of desire itself, which includes the desire to be free, | | then that very understanding destroys all conditioning. Freedom from | | conditioning is a by product; it is not important. The important thing | | is to understand what it is that creates conditioning. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, May 27, 2030 (147) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[26]--[26]--[25]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S I M P L E A W A R E N E S S | | | | Surely any form of accumulation, either of knowledge or experience, any | | form of ideal, any projection of the mind, any determined practice to | | shape the mind-what it should be and should not be-all this is obviously | | crippling the process of investigation and discovery....So I think our | | inquiry must be not for the solution of our immediate problems but | | rather to find out whether the mind-the conscious as well as the deep | | unconscious mind in which is stored all the tradition, the memories, the | | inheritance of racial knowledge-whether all of it can be put aside. I | | think it can be done only if the mind is capable of being aware without | | any sense of demand, without any pressure-just to be aware. I think it | | is one of the most difficult things-to be so aware-because we are caught | | in the immediate problem and in its immediate solution, and so our lives | | are very superficial. Though one may go to all the analysts, read all | | the books, acquire much knowledge, attend churches, pray, mediate, prac- | | tice various disciplines, nevertheless, our lives are obviously very su- | | perficial because we do not know how to penetrate deeply. I think the | | understanding, the way of penetration, how to go very, very deeply, lies | | through awareness-just to be aware of our thoughts and feelings, without | | condemnation, without comparison, just to observe. You will see, if you | | will experiment, how extraordinarily difficult it is, because our whole | | training is to condemn, to approve, to compare. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, May 28, 2030 (148) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[27]--[27]--[26]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | NO PART OF THE MIND IS UNCONDITIONED | | | | Your mind is conditioned right through; there is no part of you which is | | unconditioned. That is a fact, whether you like it or not. You may say | | is a part of you- the watcher, the super-soul, the Atma - which is not | | conditioned; but because you think about it, it is within the field of | | thought, therefore it is conditioned. You can invent lots of theories | | about it, but the fact is that your mind is conditioned right through, | | the conscious as well as the unconscious, and any effort it makes to | | free itself is also conditioned. So what is the mind to do? Or rather, | | what is the state of the mind when it knows that it is conditioned and | | realizes that any effort it makes to uncondition itself is still condi- | | tioned?Now, when you say, "I know I am conditioned," do you really know | | it, or is that merely a verbal statement? Do you know it with the same | | potency with which you see a cobra? When you see a snake and know it to | | be a cobra, there is immediate, unpremeditated action; and when you say, | | "I know I am conditioned," has it the same vital significance as your | | perception of the cobra? Or is it merely a superficial acknowledgement | | of the fact, and not the realization of the fact? When I realize the | | fact that I am conditioned, there is immediate action. I don't have to | | make an effort to uncondition myself. The very fact that I am condi- | | tioned, and the realization of that fact, brings an immediate clarifica- | | tion. The difficulty lies in not realizing it in the sense of under- | | standing all its implications, seeing that all thought, however subtle, | | however cunning, however sophisticated or philosophical, is conditioned. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, May 29, 2030 (149) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[28]--[28]--[27]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E B U R D E N O F T H E U N C O N S C I O U S | | | | Inwardly,unconsciously, there is the tremendous weight of the past push- | | ing you in a certain direction....Now, how is one to wipe all that away? | | How is the unconscious to be cleansed immediately of the past? The ana- | | lysts think that the unconscious can be partially or even completely | | cleansed through analysis-through investigation, exploration, confes- | | sion, the interpretation of dreams, and so on-so that at least you be- | | come a "normal" human being, able to adjust yourself to the present en- | | vironment. But in analysis there is always the analyser and the anal- | | ysed, an observer who is interpreting the thing observed, which is a du- | | ality, a source of conflict.So I see that mere analysis of the uncon- | | scious will not lead anywhere. It may help me to be a little less neu- | | rotic, a little kinder to my wife, to my neighbour, or some superficial | | thing like that; but that is not what we are talking about. I see that | | the analytical process-which involves time, interpretation, the movement | | of thought as the observer analysing the thing observed-cannot free the | | unconscious; therefore I reject the analytical process completely. The | | moment I perceive the fact that analysis cannot under any circumstances | | clear away the burden of the unconscious, I am out of analysis. I no | | longer analyse. So what has taken place? Because there is no longer an | | analyser separated from the thing that he analyses, he is that thing. He | | is not an entity apart from it. Then one finds that the unconscious is | | of very little importance. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, May 30, 2030 (150) (Ascension of Christ ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[29]--[29]--[28]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E I N T E R V A L B E T W E E N T H O U G H T S | | | | Now, I say it is definitely possible for the mind to be free from all | | conditioning-not that you should accept my authority. If you accept it | | on authority, you will never discover, it will be another substitution | | and that will have no significance....The understanding of the whole | | process of conditioning does not come to you through analysis or intro- | | spection, because the moment you have the analyser that very analyser | | himself is part of the background and therefore his analysis is of no | | significance....How is it possible for the mind to be free? To be free, | | the mind must not only see and understand its pendulum-like swing be- | | tween the past and the future but also be aware of the interval between | | thoughts... If you watch very carefully, you will see that though the | | response, the movement of thought, seems so swift, there are gaps, there | | are intervals between thoughts. Between two thoughts there is a period | | of silence which is not related to the thought process. If you observe | | you will see that that period of silence, that interval, is not of time | | and the discovery of that interval, the full experiencing of that inter- | | val, liberates you from conditioning-or rather it does not liberate 'y- | | ou' but there is liberation from conditioning.... It is only when the | | mind is not giving continuity to thought, when it is still with a still- | | ness that is not induced, that is without any causation-it is only then | | that there can be freedom from the background. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, May 31, 2030 (151) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUN/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[30]--[30]--[29]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O B S E R V E H O W H A B I T S A R E F O R M E D | | | | Without freedom from the past there is no freedom at all, because the | | mind is never new, fresh, innocent. It is only the fresh, innocent mind | | that is free. Freedom has nothing to do with age, it has nothing to do | | with experience; and it seems to me that the very essence of freedom | | lies in understanding the whole mechanism of habit, both conscious and | | unconscious. It is not a question of ending habit, but of seeing totally | | the structure of habit. You have to observe how habits are formed and | | how, by denying or resisting one habit, another habit is created. What | | matters is to be totally conscious of habit; for then, as you will see | | for yourself there is no longer the formation of habit. To resist habit, | | to fight it, to deny it, only gives continuity to habit. When you fight | | a particular habit you give life to that habit, and then the very fight- | | ing of it becomes a further habit. But if you are simply aware of the | | whole structure of habit without resistance, then you will find there is | | freedom from habit, and in that freedom a new thing takes place.It is | | only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that | | is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, at- | | tentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - | | will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end. | | This is very important to understand, because as long as the mind is | | breaking down one habit, and in that very process creating another, it | | can obviously never be free; and it is only the free mind that can per- | | ceive something beyond itself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ J-U-N-E 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 02[☺] 09[◑] 15[☻] 22[☽] | 01 02 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 __[♊GEMINI]__/ 17 18 19 20[21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 / [♋CANCER] Monthly Goals: Saturday, June 01, 2030 (152) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[01]--[31]--[30]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | E N E R G Y C R E A T E S I T S O W N D I S C I P L I N E | | | | To seek reality requires immense energy; and, if man is not doing that, | | he dissipates his energy in ways that create mischief, and therefore so- | | ciety has to control him. Now, is it possible to liberate energy in | | seeking God or truth and, in the process of discovering what is true, to | | be a citizen who understands the fundamental issues of life and whom so- | | ciety cannot destroy?You see, man is energy, and if man does not seek | | truth, this energy becomes destructive; therefore society controls and | | shapes the individual, which smothers this energy... And perhaps you | | have noticed another interesting and very simple fact: that the moment | | you really want to do something, you have the energy to do it. ...That | | very energy becomes the means of controlling itself, so you don't need | | outside discipline. In the search for reality, energy creates its own | | discipline. The man who is seeking reality spontaneously becomes the | | right kind of citizen, which is not according to the pattern of any par- | | ticular society or government. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, June 02, 2030 (153) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ AUG/ SEP/ +---[02]--[01]--[31]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D U A L I T Y C R E A T E S C O N F L I C T | | | | Conflict of any kind-physically, psychologically, intellectually-is a | | waste of energy. Please, it is extraordinarily difficult to understand | | and to be free of this because most of us are brought up to struggle, to | | make effort. When we are at school, that is the first thing that we are | | taught-to make an effort. And that struggle, that effort is carried | | throughout life-that is, to be good you must struggle, you must fight | | evil, you must resist, control. So, educationally, sociologically, reli- | | giously, human beings are taught to struggle. You are told that to find | | God you must work, discipline, do practice, twist and torture your soul, | | your mind, your body, deny, suppress; that you must not look; that you | | must fight, fight, fight at that so-called spiritual level-which is not | | the spiritual level at all. Then, socially each one is out for himself, | | for his family....So, all around, we are wasting energy. And that waste | | of energy in essence is conflict: the conflict between "I should" and "I | | should not," "I must" and "I must not." Once having created duality, | | conflict is inevitable. So one has to understand this whole process of | | duality-not that there is not man and woman, green and red, light and | | darkness, tall and short; all those are facts. But in the effort that | | goes into this division between the fact and the idea, there is the | | waste of energy. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, June 03, 2030 (154) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[03]--[02]--[01]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E P A T T E R N O F A N I D E A | | | | If you say, "How am I to save energy?" then you have created a pattern | | of an idea-how to save it-and then conduct your life according to that | | pattern; therefore, there begins again a contradiction. Whereas if you | | perceive for yourself where your energies are being wasted, you will see | | that the principal force causing the waste is conflict-which is having a | | problem and never resolving it, living with a deadly memory of something | | gone, living in tradition. One has to understand the nature of the dis- | | sipation of energy, and the understanding of the dissipation of energy | | is not according to Shankara, Buddha or some saint, but the actual ob- | | servation of one's daily conflict in life. So the principal waste of en- | | ergy is conflict-which doesn't mean that you sit back and be lazy. Con- | | flict will always exist as long as the idea is more important than the | | fact. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, June 04, 2030 (155) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[04]--[03]--[02]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | WHERE THERE IS CONTRADICTION THERE IS CONFLICT | | | | You see that most of us are in conflict, live a life of contradiction, | | not only outwardly, but also inwardly. Contradiction implies effort. ... | | Where there is effort, there is wastage-there is a waste of energy. | | Where there is contradiction, there is conflict. Where there is conflic- | | t, there is effort to get over that conflict-which is another form of | | resistance. And where you resist, there is also a certain form of energy | | engendered-you know that when you resist something, that very resistance | | creates energy....All action is based on this friction that I must and I | | must not. And this form of resistance, this form of conflict, does breed | | energy; but that energy, if you observe very closely, is very destruc- | | tive; it is not creative. ...Most people are in contradiction. And if | | they have a gift, a talent to write or to paint or to do this or that, | | the tension of that contradiction gives them the energy to express, to | | create, to write, to be. The more the tension, the greater the conflict, | | the greater is the output, and that is what we call creation. But it is | | not at all creation. It is the result of conflict. To face the fact that | | you are in conflict, that you are in contradiction, will bring that | | quality of energy that is not the outcome of resistance. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, June 05, 2030 (156) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[05]--[04]--[03]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C R E A T I V E E N E R G Y | | | | Now the question is: Is there an energy which is not within the field of | | thought, which is not the result of self-contradictory, compulsive ener- | | gy, of self-fulfilment as frustration? You understand the question? I | | hope I am making myself clear. Because, unless we find the quality of | | that energy which is not merely the product of thought that bit by bit | | creates the energy but also is mechanical, action is destructive, | | whether we do social reform, write excellent books, be very clever in | | business, or create nationalistic divisions and take part in other po- | | litical activities and so on. Now, the question is whether there is such | | an energy, not theoretically-because when we are confronted with facts, | | to introduce theories is infantile, immature. It is like the case of a | | man who has cancer and is to be operated upon; it is no good discussing | | what kinds of instruments are to be used and all the rest of it; you | | have to face the fact that he is to be operated upon. So, similarly, a | | mind has to penetrate or be in such a state when the mind is not a slave | | to thought. After all, all thought in time is invention; all the gadget- | | s, jets, the refrigerators, the rockets, the exploration into the atom, | | space, they are all the result of knowledge, thought. All these are not | | creation; invention is not creation; capacity is not creation; thought | | can never be creative because thought is always conditioned and can nev- | | er be free. It is only that energy which is not the product of thought | | that is creative. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, June 06, 2030 (157) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[06]--[05]--[04]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E H I G H E S T F O R M O F E N E R G Y | | | | An idea about energy is entirely different from the fact of energy it- | | self. We have formulas or concepts of how to bring about a quality of | | energy that is of the highest quality. But the formula is entirely dif- | | ferent from the renovating, renewing quality of energy itself....The | | highest form of this energy, the apogee, is the state of mind when it | | has no idea, no thought, no sense of a direction or motive-that is pure | | energy. And that quality of energy cannot be sought after. You can't | | say, "Well, tell me how to get it, the modus operandi, the way." There | | is no way to it. To find out for ourselves the nature of this energy, we | | must begin to understand the daily energy that is wasted-the energy when | | we talk, when we hear a bird, a voice, when we see the river, the vast | | sky and the villagers, dirty, ill kept, ill, half-starved, and the tree | | that withdraws of an evening from all the light of day. The very obser- | | vation of everything is energy. And this energy we derive through food, | | through the sun's rays. This physical, daily energy that one has, obvi- | | ously can be augmented, increased, by the right kind of food and so on. | | That is necessary, obviously. But that same energy which becomes the en- | | ergy of the psyche-that is, thought-the moment that energy has any con- | | tradiction in itself, that energy is a waste of energy. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, June 07, 2030 (158) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[07]--[06]--[05]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THE ACT OF LISTENING TO A FACT WILL FREE THE MIND | | | | Somebody is telling you something, you listen. The very act of listening | | is the act of release. When you see the fact, the very perception of | | that fact is the release of that fact. The very listening, the very see- | | ing of something as a fact, has an extraordinary effect without the ef- | | fort of thought....Let us take one thing-say ambition. We have gone suf- | | ficiently into what it does, what its effects are. A mind that is ambi- | | tious can never know what it is to sympathize, to have pity, to love. An | | ambitious mind is a cruel mind-whether spiritually or outwardly or in- | | wardly. You have heard it. You hear it; when you hear that, you trans- | | late it and say, "How can I live in this world which is built on ambi- | | tion?" Therefore, you have not listened. You have responded, you have | | reacted to a statement, to a fact; therefore, you are not looking at the | | fact. You are merely translating the fact or giving an opinion about the | | fact or responding to the fact; therefore, you are not looking at the | | fact... If one listens-in the sense without any evaluation, reaction, | | judgement-surely then, the fact creates that energy which destroys, | | wipes away, sweeps away ambition which creates conflict. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, June 08, 2030 (159) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[08]--[07]--[06]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A T T E N T I O N W I T H O U T R E S I S T A N C E | | | | You know what space is. There is space in this room. The distance be- | | tween here and your hostel, between the bridge and your home, between | | this bank of the river and the other-all that is space. Now, is there | | also space in your mind? Or is it so crowded that there is no space in | | it at all? If your mind has space, then in that space there is si- | | lence-and from that silence everything else comes, for then you can lis- | | ten, you can pay attention without resistance. That is why it is very | | important to have space in the mind. If the mind is not overcrowded, not | | ceaselessly occupied, then it can listen to that dog barking, to the | | sound of a train crossing the distant bridge, and also be fully aware of | | what is being said by a person talking here. Then the mind is a living | | thing, it is not dead. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, June 09, 2030 (160) ◑ (Whitsunday ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[09]--[08]--[07]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A T T E N T I O N F R E E O F E F F O R T | | | | Is there attention without anything absorbing the mind? Is there atten- | | tion without concentrating upon an object? Is there attention without | | any form of motive, influence, compulsion? Can the mind give full atten- | | tion without any sense of exclusion? Surely it can, and that is the only | | state of attention; the others are mere indulgence, or tricks of the | | mind. If you can give full attention without being absorbed in some- | | thing, and without any sense of exclusion, then you will find out what | | it is to meditate; because in that attention there is no effort, no di- | | vision, no struggle, no search for a result. So meditation is a process | | of freeing the mind from systems, and of giving attention without either | | being absorbed, or making an effort to concentrate. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, June 10, 2030 (161) (Whitmonday ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[10]--[09]--[08]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A N A T T E N T I O N T H A T I S N O T E X C L U S I V E | | | | I think there is a difference between the attention that is given to an | | object, and attention without object. We can concentrate on a particular | | idea, belief, object- which is an exclusive process; and there is also | | an attention, an awareness, which is not exclusive. Similarly, there is | | a discontent which has no motive, which is not the outcome of some frus- | | tration, which cannot be canalized, which cannot accept any fulfilment. | | Perhaps I may not be using the right word for it, but I think that that | | extraordinary discontent is the essential. Without that, every other | | form of discontent merely becomes a way to satisfaction. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, June 11, 2030 (162) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[11]--[10]--[09]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | ATTENTION IS LIMITLESS, WITHOUT FRONTIERS | | | | In the cultivation of the mind, our emphasis should not be on concentra- | | tion, but on attention. Concentration is a process of forcing the mind | | to narrow down to a point, whereas attention is without frontiers. In | | that process the mind is always limited by a frontier or boundary, but | | when our concern is to understand the totality of the mind, mere concen- | | tration becomes a hindrance. Attention is limitless, without the fron- | | tiers of knowledge. Knowledge comes through concentration, and any ex- | | tension of knowledge is still within its own frontiers.In the state of | | attention the mind can and does use knowledge, which of necessity is the | | result of concentration; but the part is never the whole, and adding to- | | gether the many parts does not make for the perception of the whole. | | Knowledge, which is the additive process of concentration does not bring | | about the understanding of the immeasurable. The total is never within | | the brackets of a concentrated mind.So attention is of primary impor- | | tance, but it does not come through the effort of concentration. Atten- | | tion is a state in which the mind is ever learning without a centre | | around which knowledge gathers as accumulated experience. A mind that is | | concentrated upon itself uses knowledge as a means of its own expansion; | | and such activity becomes self-contradictory and anti-social. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, June 12, 2030 (163) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[12]--[11]--[10]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C O M P L E T E A T T E N T I O N | | | | What do we mean by attention? Is there attention when I am forcing my | | mind to attend? When I say to myself, "I must pay attention, I must con- | | trol my mind and push aside all other thoughts," would you call that at- | | tention? Surely that is not attention. What happens when the mind forces | | itself to pay attention? It creates a resistance to prevent other | | thoughts from seeping in; it is concerned with resistance, with pushing | | away; therefore it is incapable of attention. That is true, is it not?To | | understand something totally you must give your complete attention to | | it. But you will soon find out how extraordinarily difficult that is, | | because your mind is used to being distracted, so you say, "By Jove, it | | is good to pay attention, but how am I to do it?" That is, you are back | | again with the desire to get something, so you will never pay complete | | attention. ...When you see a tree or a bird, for example, to pay com- | | plete attention is not to say, "That is an oak," or, "That is a parrot," | | and walk by. In giving it a name you have already ceased to pay atten- | | tion. ... Whereas, if you are wholly aware, totally attentive when you | | look at something, then you will find that a complete transformation | | takes place, and that total attention is the good. There is no other, | | and you cannot get total attention by practice. With practice you get | | concentration, that is, you build up walls of resistance, and within | | those walls of resistance is the concentrator, but that is not atten- | | tion, it is exclusion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, June 13, 2030 (164) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[13]--[12]--[11]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | ELIMINATION OF FEAR IS THE BEGINNING OF ATTENTION | | | | How is the state of attention to be brought about? It cannot be culti- | | vated through persuasion, comparison, reward or punishment, all of which | | are forms of coercion. The elimination of fear is the beginning of at- | | tention. Fear must exist as long as there is an urge to be or to become, | | which is the pursuit of success, with all its frustrations and tortuous | | contradictions. You can teach concentration, but attention cannot be | | taught, just as you cannot possibly teach freedom from fear, and in un- | | derstanding these causes there is the elimination of fear. So attention | | arises spontaneously when around the student there is an atmosphere of | | well-being, when he has the feeling of being secure, of being at ease, | | and is aware of the disinterested action that comes with love. Love does | | not compare, and so the envy and torture of "becoming" cease. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, June 14, 2030 (165) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[14]--[13]--[12]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THERE IS NO PLACE AT WHICH TO ARRIVE | | | | Can humility be practiced? Surely, to be conscious that you are humble, | | is not to be humble. You want to know that you have arrived. This indi- | | cates, does it not?, that you are listening in order to achieve a par- | | ticular state, a place where you will never be disturbed, where you will | | find everlasting happiness, permanent bliss. But as I said previously, | | there is no arriving, there is only the movement of learning - and that | | is the beauty of life. If you have arrived, there is nothing more. And | | all of you have arrived, or you want to arrive, not only in your busi- | | ness, but in everything you do; so you are dissatisfied, frustrated, | | miserable. Sirs, there is no place at which to arrive, there is just | | this movement of learning which becomes painful only when there is accu- | | mulation. A mind that listens with complete attention, will never look | | for a result because it is constantly unfolding; like a river, it is al- | | ways in movement. Such a mind is totally unconscious of its own activi- | | ty, in the sense that there is no perpetuation of a self, of a "me," | | which is seeking to achieve an end. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, June 15, 2030 (166) ☻ ♊ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[15]--[14]--[13]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | K N O W L E D G E I S N O T A W A R E N E S S | | | | Awareness is that state of mind which observes something without any | | condemnation or acceptance, which merely faces the thing as it is. When | | you look at a flower non botanically, then you see the totality of the | | flower; but if your mind is completely taken up with the botanical | | knowledge of what the flower is, you are not totally looking at the | | flower. Though you may have knowledge of the flower, if that knowledge | | takes the whole ground of your mind, the whole field of your mind, then | | you are not looking totally at the flower.So, to look at a fact is to be | | aware. In that awareness, there is no choice, no condemnation, no like | | or dislike. But most of us are incapable of doing this because tradi- | | tionally, occupationally, in every way, we are not capable of facing the | | fact without the background. We have to be aware of the background.We | | have to be aware of our conditioning, and that conditioning shows itself | | when we observe a fact; and as you are concerned with the observation of | | the fact and not with the background, the background is pushed aside. | | When the main interest is to understand the fact only, and when you see | | that the background prevents you from understanding the fact, then the | | vital interest in the fact wipes away the background. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, June 16, 2030 (167) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[16]--[15]--[14]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I N T R O S P E C T I O N I S I N C O M P L E T E | | | | In awareness there is only the present-that is, being aware, you see the | | past process of influence which controls the present and modifies the | | future.Awareness is an integral process, not a process of division. For | | example, if I ask the question, "Do I believe in God," -in the very pro- | | cess of asking, I can observe, if I am aware, what it is that is making | | me ask that question; if I am aware I can perceive what have been and | | what are the forces at work which are compelling me to ask that ques- | | tion. Then I am aware of various forms of fear-those of my ancestors who | | have created a certain idea of God and have handed it down to me, and | | combining their idea with my present reactions, I have modified or | | changed the concept of God. If I am aware I perceive this entire process | | of the past, its effect in the present and in the future, integrally, as | | a whole.If one is aware, one sees how through fear one's concept of God | | arose; or perhaps there was a person who had an original experience of | | reality or of God and communicated it to another who in his greediness | | made it his own, and gave impetus to the process of imitation. Awareness | | is the process of completeness, and introspection is incomplete. The re- | | sult of introspection is morbid, painful, whereas awareness is enthusi- | | asm and joy. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, June 17, 2030 (168) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[17]--[16]--[15]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S E E I N G T H E W H O L E | | | | How do you look at a tree? Do you see the whole of the tree? If you | | don't see it as a whole, you don't see the tree at all. You may pass it | | by and say, "There is a tree, how nice it is"! or say, "It is a mango | | tree," or "I do not know what those trees are; they may be tamarind | | trees." But when you stand and look-I am talking actually, factually-you | | never see the totality of it; and if you don't see the totality of the | | tree, you do not see the tree. In the same way is awareness. If you | | don't see the operations of your mind totally in that sense-as you see | | the tree- you are not aware. The tree is made up of the roots, the | | trunk, the branches, the big ones and the little ones and the very deli- | | cate one that goes up there; and the leaf, the dead leaf, the withered | | leaf and the green leaf, the leaf that is eaten, the leaf that is ugly, | | the leaf that is dropping, the fruit, the flower-all that you see as a | | whole when you see the tree. In the same way, in that state of seeing | | the operations of your mind, in that state of awareness, there is your | | sense of condemnation, approval, denial, struggle, futility, the de- | | spair, the hope, the frustration; awareness covers all that, not just | | one part. So, are you aware of your mind in that very simple sense, as | | seeing a whole picture-not one corner of the picture and saying, "Who | | painted that picture?" | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, June 18, 2030 (169) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[18]--[17]--[16]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A W A R E N E S S C A N N O T B E D I S C I P L I N E D | | | | If awareness is practiced, made into a habit, then it becomes tedious | | and painful. Awareness cannot be disciplined. That which is practiced is | | no longer awareness, for in practice is implied the creation of habit, | | the exertion of effort and will. Effort is distortion. There is not only | | the awareness of the outer-of the flight of birds, of shadows, of the | | restless sea, the trees and the wind, the beggar and the luxurious cars | | that pass by-but also there is the awareness of the psychological pro- | | cess, the inward tension and conflict. You do not condemn a bird in | | flight; you observe it, you see the beauty of it. But, when you consider | | your own inward strife, you condemn it or justify it. You are incapable | | of observing this inward conflict without choice or justification. To be | | aware of your thought and feeling without identification and denial is | | not tedious and painful, but in search of a result, an end to be gained, | | conflict is increased and the tedium of strife begins. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, June 19, 2030 (170) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[19]--[18]--[17]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L E T A T H O U G H T F L O W E R | | | | Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows fly- | | ing across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in | | front, the colours they are wearing-being extensively aware, which needs | | watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the | | trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing. To be exten- | | sively aware and from there acting-that is to be aware of the totality | | of one's own being. To have a mere sectional capacity, a fragmentation | | of capacity or capacity fragmented, and to pursue that capacity and | | derive experience through that capacity which is limited-that makes the | | quality of the mind mediocre, limited, narrow. But an awareness of the | | totality of one's own being, understood through the awareness of every | | thought and every feeling, and never limiting it, letting every thought | | and every feeling flower, and therefore being aware-that is entirely d- | | ifferent from action or concentration which is merely capacity and | | therefore limited.To let a thought flower or a feeling flower requires | | attention-not concentration. I mean by the flowering of a thought giving | | freedom to it to see what happens, what is taking place in your thought, | | in your feeling. Anything that flowers must have freedom, must have | | light; it cannot be restricted. You cannot put any value on it, you can- | | not say, "That is right, that is wrong; this should be, and that should | | not be"-thereby, you limit the flowering of thought. And it can only | | flower in this awareness. Therefore, if you go into it very deeply, you | | will find that this flowering of thought is the ending of thought. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, June 20, 2030 (171) (Feast of Corpus Christi ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[20]--[19]--[18]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | P A S S I V E A W A R E N E S S | | | | In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained.There is | | silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there | | comes understanding. In this process when thought and feeling unfold | | themselves, which is only possible when there is neither acquisition nor | | acceptance, then there comes an extensional awareness, all the hidden | | layers and their significance are revealed. This awareness reveals that | | creative emptiness which cannot be imagined or formulated. This exten- | | sional awareness and the creative emptiness are a total process and are | | not different stages. When you silently observe a problem without con- | | demnation, justification, there comes passive awareness. In this passive | | awareness, the problem is understood and dissolved.In awareness there is | | heightened sensitivity, in which there is the highest form of negative | | thinking. When the mind is formulating, producing, there can be no cre- | | ation. It is only when the mind is still and empty, when it is not cre- | | ating a problem-in that alert passivity there is creation. Creation can | | only take place in negation, which is not the opposite of the positive. | | Being nothing is not the antithesis of being something. A problem comes | | into being only when there is a search for result. When the search for | | result ceases, then only is there no problem. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, June 21, 2030 (172) (June Solstice ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[21]--[20]--[19]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | WHAT IS THOROUGHLY UNDERSTOOD WILL NOT REPEAT ITSELF | | | | In self-awareness there is no need for confession, for self-awareness | | creates the mirror in which all things are reflected without distortion. | | Every thought-feeling is thrown, as it were, on the screen of awareness | | to be observed, studied and understood; but this flow of understanding | | is blocked when there is condemnation or acceptance, judgement or iden- | | tification. The more the screen is watched and understood-not as a duty | | or enforced practice, but because pain and sorrow have created the insa- | | tiable interest that brings its own discipline-the greater the intensity | | of awareness, and this in turn brings heightened understanding. ...You | | can follow a thing if it moves slowly; a rapid machine must be made to | | slow down if one is to study its movements. Similarly, thoughts-feelings | | can be studied and understood only if the mind is capable of proceeding | | slowly; but once it has awakened this capacity, it can move at a high | | velocity, which makes it extremely calm. When revolving at high speed | | the several blades of a fan appear to be a solid sheet of metal. Our d- | | ifficulty is to make the mind revolve slowly so that each thought-feel- | | ing can be followed and understood. What is deeply and thoroughly under- | | stood will not repeat itself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, June 22, 2030 (173) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[22]--[21]--[20]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | V I O L E N C E | | | | What takes place when you give complete attention to the thing that we | | call violence?-violence being not only what separates human beings, | | through belief, conditioning, and so on, but also what comes into being | | when we are seeking personal security, or the security of individuality | | through a pattern of society. Can you look at that violence with com- | | plete attention? And when you look at that violence with complete atten- | | tion, what takes place? When you give complete attention to anything-y- | | our learning of history or mathematics, looking at your wife or your | | husband-what takes place? I do not know if you have gone into it-proba- | | bly most of us have never given complete attention to anything-but when | | you do, what takes place? Sirs, what is attention? Surely when you are | | giving complete attention there is care, and you cannot care if you have | | no affection, no love. And when you give attention in which there is | | love, is there violence? You are following? Formally I have condemned | | violence, I have escaped from it, I have justified it, I have said it is | | natural. All these things are inattention. But when I give attention to | | what I have called violence-and in that attention there is care, affec- | | tion, love-where is there space for violence? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, June 23, 2030 (174) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[23]--[22]--[21]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | IS IT POSSIBLE TO END THIS VIOLENCE? | | | | When you talk about violence, what do you mean by it? It is really quite | | an interesting question, if you go into it deeply, to inquire whether a | | human being, living in this world, can totally cease to be violent. So- | | cieties, religious communities, have tried not to kill animals. Some | | have even said, "If you don't want to kill animals, what about the veg- | | etables?". You can carry it to such an extent that you would cease to | | exist. Where do you draw the line? Is there an arbitrary line according | | to your ideal, to your fancy, to your norm, to your temperament, to your | | conditioning, and you say, "I'll go up to there but not beyond"? Is | | there a difference between individual anger, with violent action on the | | part of the individual, and the organized hatred of a society which | | breeds and builds up an army to destroy another society? Where,at what | | level,and what fragment of violence are you discussing,or do you want to | | discuss whether man can be free of total violence, not a particular | | fragment which he calls violence? We know what violence is without ex- | | pressing in words, in phrases, in action. As a human being in whom the | | animal is still very strong, in spite of centuries of so-called civi- | | lization, where shall I begin? Shall I begin at the periphery, which is | | society, or at the centre, which is myself? You tell me not to be vio- | | lent, because it is ugly. You explain to me all the reasons, and I see | | that violence is a terrible thing in human beings, outwardly and inward- | | ly. Is it possible to end this violence? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, June 24, 2030 (175) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[24]--[23]--[22]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E C E N T R A L C A U S E O F C O N F L I C T | | | | Do not think by merely wishing for peace, you will have peace, when in | | your daily life of relationship you are aggressive, acquisitive, seeking | | psychological security here or in the hereafter. You have to understand | | the central cause of conflict and sorrow and then dissolve it and not | | merely look to the outside for peace. But you see, most of us are indo- | | lent. We are too lazy to take hold of ourselves and understand our- | | selves, and being lazy, which is really a form of conceit, we think | | others will solve this problem for us and give us peace, or that we | | should destroy the apparently few people that are causing wars. When the | | individual is in conflict within himself he must inevitably create con- | | flict without, and only he can bring about peace within himself and so | | in the world, for he is the world. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, June 25, 2030 (176) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[25]--[24]--[23]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | R E A L I Z E Y O U A R E V I O L E N T | | | | The animal is violent. Human beings who are the result of the animal, | | are also violent; it is part of their being to be violent, to be angry, | | to be jealous, to be envious, to seek power, position, prestige and all | | the rest of it, to dominate, to be aggressive. Man is violent-this is | | shown by thousands of wars-and he has developed an ideology which he | | calls "non-violence." ... And when there is actual violence as a war be- | | tween this country and the next country, everybody is involved in it. | | They love it. Now, when you are actually violent and you have an ideal | | of non-violence, you have a conflict. You are always trying to become | | non-violent-which is a part of the conflict. You discipline yourself in | | order not to be violent-which, again, is a conflict, friction. So when | | you are violent and have the ideal of non-violence, you are essentially | | violent. To realize that you are violent is the first thing to do-not | | try to become non-violent.To see violence as it is, not try to translate | | it, not to discipline it, not to overcome it, not to suppress it, but to | | see it as though you are seeing it for the first time -that is to look | | at it without any thought. I have explained already what we mean by | | looking at a tree with innocence-which is to look at it without the im- | | age. In the same way, you have to look at violence without the image | | which is involved in the word itself. To look at it without any movement | | of thought is to look at it as though you are looking at it for the | | first time, and therefore looking at it with innocence. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, June 26, 2030 (177) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[26]--[25]--[24]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F R E E D O M F R O M V I O L E N C E | | | | So can you see the fact of violence-the fact not only outside of you but | | also inside you - and not have any time interval between listening and | | acting? This means by the very act of listening you are free from vio- | | lence. You are totally free from violence because you have not admitted | | time, an ideology through which you can get rid of violence. This re- | | quires very deep meditation, not just a verbal agreement or disagreemen- | | t. We never listen to anything; our minds, our brain cells are so condi- | | tioned to an ideology about violence that we never look at the fact of | | violence. We look at the fact of violence through an ideology, and the | | looking at violence through an ideology creates a time interval. And | | when you admit time, there is no end to violence; you go on showing vio- | | lence, preaching non-violence. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, June 27, 2030 (178) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[27]--[26]--[25]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E M A J O R C A U S E O F V I O L E N C E | | | | The major cause of violence, I think, is that each one of us is inward- | | ly, psychologically, seeking security. In each one of us the urge for | | psychological security-that inward sense of being safe-projects the de- | | mand, the outward demand, for security. Inwardly each one of us wants to | | be secure, sure, certain.That is why we have all these marriage laws; in | | order that we may possess a woman, or a man, and so be secure in our re- | | lationship. If that relationship is attacked we become violent, which is | | the psychological demand, the inward demand, to be certain of our rela- | | tionship to everything. But there is no such thing as certainty, securi- | | ty, in any relationship. Inwardly, psychologically, we should like to be | | secure, but there is no such thing as permanent security.... So all | | these are the contributory causes of the violence that is prevalent, | | rampaging, throughout the world. I think anybody who has observed, even | | if only a little, what is going on in the world, and especially in this | | unfortunate country, can also, without a great deal of intellectual s- | | tudy, observe and find out in himself those things which, projected out- | | wardly, are the causes of this extraordinary brutality, callousness, in- | | difference, violence. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, June 28, 2030 (179) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[28]--[27]--[26]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E F A C T I S W E A R E V I O L E N T | | | | We all see the importance of the cessation of violence. And how am I, as | | an individual, to be free of violence-not just superficially, but total- | | ly, completely, inwardly? If the ideal of non-violence will not free the | | mind from violence, then will the analysis of the cause of violence help | | to dissolve violence?After all,this is one of our major problems, is it | | not? The whole world is caught up in violence, in wars; the very struc- | | ture of our acquisitive society is essentially violent. And if you and I | | as individuals are to be free from violence-totally, inwardly free, not | | merely superficially or verbally-then how is one to set about it without | | becoming self-centred?You understand the problem, do you not? If my con- | | cern is to free the mind from violence and I practice discipline in | | order to control violence and change it into non-violence, surely that | | brings about self-centred thought and activity, because my mind is fo- | | cused all the time on getting rid of one thing and acquiring something | | else. And yet I see the importance of the mind being totally free from | | violence. So what am I to do? Surely, it is not a question of how one is | | not to be violent. The fact is that we are violent, and to ask "How am I | | not to be violent?" merely creates the ideal, which seems to me to be | | utterly futile. But if one is capable of looking at violence and under- | | standing it, then perhaps there is a possibility of resolving it total- | | ly. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, June 29, 2030 (180) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[29]--[28]--[27]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O D E S T R O Y H A T E | | | | We see the world of hate taking its harvest at the present. This world | | of hate has been created by our fathers and their forefathers and by us. | | Thus ignorance stretches indefinitely into the past. It has not come in- | | to being by itself. It is the outcome of human ignorance, a historical | | process, isn't it? We as individuals have cooperated with our ancestors, | | who, with their forefathers, set going this process of hate, fear, | | greed, and so on. Now, as individuals, we partake of this world of hate | | so long as we, individually, indulge in it.The world,then, is an exten- | | sion of yourself. If you as an individual desire to destroy hate, then | | you as an individual must cease hating. To destroy hate, you must disso- | | ciate yourself from hate in all its gross and subtle forms, and so long | | as you are caught up in it you are part of that world of ignorance and | | fear. Then the world is an extension of yourself, yourself duplicated | | and multiplied. The world does not exist apart from the individual. It | | may exist as an idea, as a state, as a social organization, but to carry | | out that idea, to make that social or religious organization function, | | there must be the individual. His ignorance, his greed, and his fear | | maintain the structure of ignorance, greed, and hate. If the individual | | changes, can he affect the world, the world of hate, greed, and so on? | | ...The world is an extension of yourself so long as you are thoughtless, | | caught up in ignorance, hate, greed, but when you are earnest, thought- | | ful and aware, there is not only a dissociation from those ugly causes | | that create pain and sorrow, but also in that understanding there is a | | completeness, a wholeness. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, June 30, 2030 (181) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[30]--[29]--[28]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THAT THING WHICH YOU FIGHT YOU BECOME | | | | Surely that thing which you fight you become. ...If I am angry and you | | meet me with anger what is the result? More anger. You have become that | | which I am. If I am evil and you fight me with evil means then you also | | become evil, however righteous you may feel. If I am brutal and you use | | brutal methods to overcome me, then you become brutal like me. And this | | we have done thousands of years.Surely there is a different approach | | than to meet hate by hate? If I use violent methods to quell anger in | | myself then I am using wrong means for a right end, and thereby the | | right end ceases to be. In this there is no understanding; there is no | | transcending anger. Anger is to be studied tolerantly and understood; it | | is not to be overcome through violent means. Anger may be the result of | | many causes and without comprehending them there is no escape from | | anger.We have created the enemy, the bandit, and becoming ourselves the | | enemy in no way brings about an end to enmity. We have to understand the | | cause of enmity and cease to feed it by our thought, feeling and action. | | This is an arduous task demanding constant self-awareness and intelli- | | gent pliability, for what we are the society, the state is. The enemy | | and the friend are the outcome of our thought and action. We are respon- | | sible for creating enmity and so it is more important to be aware of our | | own thought and action than to be concerned with the foe and the friend, | | for right thinking puts an end to division. Love transcends the friend | | and the enemy. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ J-U-L-Y 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 31[☺] 08[◑] 15[☻] 22[☽] | 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20[21] __[♋CANCER]__/ 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 / [♌LEO] Monthly Goals: Monday, July 01, 2030 (182) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JUL/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[31]--[30]--[29]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H A P P I N E S S V S . G R A T I F I C A T I O N | | | | What is it that most of us are seeking? What is it that each one of us | | wants? Especially in this restless world, where everybody is trying to | | find some kind of peace, some kind of happiness, a refuge, surely it is | | important to find out, isn't it?, what it is that we are trying to seek, | | what it is that we are trying to discover? Probably most of us are seek- | | ing some kind of happiness, some kind of peace; in a world that is rid- | | den with turmoil, wars, contention, strife, we want a refuge where there | | can be some peace. I think that is what most of us want. So we pursue, | | go from one leader to another, from one religious organization to anoth- | | er, from one teacher to another.Now, is it that we are seeking happiness | | or is it that we are seeking gratification of some kind from which we | | hope to derive happiness? There is a difference between happiness and | | gratification. Can you seek happiness? Perhaps you can find gratifica- | | tion but surely you cannot find happiness. Happiness is derivative; it | | is a by-product of something else. So, before we give our minds and | | hearts to something which demands a great deal of earnestness, atten- | | tion, thought, care, we must find out, must we not?, what it is that we | | are seeking; whether it is happiness, or gratification? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, July 02, 2030 (183) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ +---[01]--[31]--[30]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O N E M U S T G O D E E P T O K N O W J O Y | | | | Very few of us enjoy anything. We have very little joy in seeing the | | sunset, or the full moon, or a beautiful person, or a lovely tree, or a | | bird in flight, or a dance. We do not really enjoy anything. We look at | | it, we are superficially amused or excited by it, we have a sensation | | which we call joy. But enjoyment is something far deeper, which must be | | understood and gone into....As we grow older, though we want to enjoy | | things, the best has gone out of us; we want to enjoy other kinds of | | sensations-passions, lust, power, position. These are all the normal | | things of life, though they are superficial; they are not to be con- | | demned, not to be justified, but to be understood and given their right | | place. If you condemn them as being worthless, as being sensational, s- | | tupid or unspiritual, you destroy the whole process of living...To know | | joy one must go much deeper. Joy is not mere sensation. It requires ex- | | traordinary refinement of the mind, but not the refinement of the self | | that gathers more and more to itself. Such a self, such a man, can never | | understand this state of joy in which the enjoyer is not. One has to un- | | derstand this extraordinary thing; otherwise, life becomes very small, | | petty, superficial-being born, learning a few things, suffering, bearing | | children having responsibilities, earning money, having a little intel- | | lectual amusement and then to die. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, July 03, 2030 (184) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ OCT/ +---[02]--[01]--[01]--[31] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H A P P I N E S S C A N N O T B E P U R S U E D | | | | What do you mean by happiness? Some will say happiness consists in get- | | ting what you want. You want a car, and you get it, and you are happy. I | | want a sari or clothes; I want to go to Europe and if I can, I am happy. | | I want to be the ... greatest politician, and if I get it, I am happy; | | if I cannot get it, I am unhappy. So, what you call happiness is getting | | what you want, achievement or success, becoming noble, getting anything | | that you want. As long as you want something and you can get it, you | | feel perfectly happy; you are not frustrated, but if you cannot get what | | you want, then unhappiness begins. All of us are concerned with this, | | not only the rich and the poor. The rich and the poor all want to get | | something for themselves, for their family, for society; and if they are | | prevented, stopped, they will be unhappy. We are not discussing, we are | | not saying that the poor should not have what they want. That is not the | | problem. We are trying to find out what is happiness and whether happi- | | ness is something of which you are conscious. The moment you are con- | | scious that you are happy, that you have much, is that happiness? The | | moment you are conscious that you are happy, it is not happiness, is it? | | So you cannot go after happiness. The moment you are conscious that you | | are humble, you are not humble. So happiness is not a thing to be pur- | | sued; it comes. But if you seek it, it will evade you. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, July 04, 2030 (185) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[03]--[02]--[02]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H A P P I N E S S I S N O T S E N S A T I O N | | | | Mind can never find happiness. Happiness is not a thing to be pursued | | and found, as sensation. Sensation can be found again and again, for it | | is ever being lost; but happiness cannot be found. Remembered happiness | | is only a sensation, a reaction for or against the present. What is over | | is not happiness; the experience of happiness which is over is sensa- | | tion, for remembrance is the past and the past is sensation. Happiness | | is not sensation....What you know is the past, not the present; and the | | past is sensation, reaction, memory. You remember that you were happy; | | and can the past tell what happiness is? It can recall but it cannot be. | | Recognition is not happiness; to know what it is to be happy, is not | | happiness. Recognition is the response of memory; and can the mind, the | | complex of memories, experiences, ever be happy? The very recognition | | prevents the experiencing.When you are aware that you are happy, is | | there happiness? When there is happiness, are you aware of it? Con- | | sciousness comes only with conflict, the conflict of remembrance of the | | more. Happiness is not the remembrance of the more. Where there is con- | | flict, happiness is not. Conflict is where the mind is. Thought at all | | levels is the response of memory, and so thought invariably breeds con- | | flict. Thought is sensation, and sensation is not happiness. Sensations | | are ever seeking gratifications. The end is sensation, but happiness is | | not an end; it cannot be sought out. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, July 05, 2030 (186) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[04]--[03]--[03]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | CAN HAPPINESS BE FOUND THROUGH ANYTHING? | | | | We seek happiness through things, through relationship, through thought- | | s, ideas. So things, relationship, and ideas become all-important and | | not happiness. When we seek happiness through something, then the thing | | becomes of greater value than happiness itself. When stated in this man- | | ner, the problem sounds simple and it is simple. We seek happiness in | | property, in family, in name; then property, family, idea become all-im- | | portant, for then happiness is sought through a means, and then the | | means destroys the end. Can happiness be found through any means, | | through anything made by the hand or by the mind? Things, relationship, | | and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by | | them....Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship | | is constant friction and death awaits; ideas and beliefs have no stabil- | | ity, no permanency. We seek happiness in them and yet do not realize | | their impermanency. So sorrow becomes our constant companion and over- | | coming it our problem.To find out the true meaning of happiness, we must | | explore the river of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is not an end in it- | | self. Is there a source to a stream? Every drop of water from the begin- | | ning to the end makes the river. To imagine that we will find happiness | | at the source is to be mistaken. It is to be found where you are on the | | river of self-knowledge. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, July 06, 2030 (187) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[05]--[04]--[04]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H A P P I N E S S T H A T I S N O T O F T H E M I N D | | | | We may move from one refinement to another, from one subtlety to anoth- | | er, from one enjoyment to another; but at the centre of it all, there is | | "the me" - "the me" that is enjoying, that wants more happiness, "the | | me" that searches, looks for, longs for happiness, "the me" that strug- | | gles, "the me" that becomes more and more refined, but never likes to | | come to an end. It is only when "the me" in all subtle forms comes to an | | end that there is a state of bliss which cannot be sought after, an ec- | | stasy, a real joy without pain, without corruption.......When the mind | | goes beyond the thought of "the me," the experiencer, the observer, the | | thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorrupt- | | ible. That happiness cannot be permanent, in the sense in which we use | | that word. But, our mind is seeking permanent happiness, something that | | will last, that will continue. That very desire for continuity is cor- | | ruption......If we can understand the process of life without condemn- | | ing, without saying it is right or wrong, then, I think, there comes a | | creative happiness which is not "yours" or "mine." That creative happi- | | ness is like sunshine. If you want to keep the sunshine to yourself, it | | is no longer the clear, warm life-giving sun. Similarly, if you want | | happiness because you are suffering, or because you have lost somebody, | | or because you have not been successful, then that is merely a reaction. | | But when the mind can go beyond, then there is a happiness that is not | | of the mind. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, July 07, 2030 (188) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[06]--[05]--[05]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | U N D E R S T A N D I N G S U F F E R I N G | | | | Why do we enquire "what is happiness"? Is that the right approach? Is | | that the right probing? We are not happy. If we were happy, our world | | would be entirely different; our civilization, our culture would be | | wholly, radically different. We are unhappy human beings, petty, miser- | | able, struggling, vain, surrounding ourselves with useless, futile | | things, satisfied with petty ambitions, with money, and position. We are | | unhappy beings, though we may have knowledge, though we may have money, | | rich houses, plenty of children, cars, experience. We are unhappy, suf- | | fering, human beings, and because we are suffering, we want happiness, | | and so we are led away by those who promise this happiness, social, eco- | | nomic or spiritual....What is the good of my asking if there is happi- | | ness when I am suffering? Can I understand suffering? That is my prob- | | lem, not how to be happy. I am happy when I am not suffering, but the | | moment I am conscious of it, it is not happiness.... So, I must under- | | stand what is suffering. Can I understand what is suffering when a part | | of my mind is running away seeking happiness, seeking a way out of this | | misery? So must I not, if I am to understand suffering, be completely | | one with it, not reject it, not justify it, not condemn it, not compare | | it, but completely be with it and understand it? The truth of what is | | happiness will come if I know how to listen. I must know how to listen | | to suffering; if I can listen to suffering I can listen to happiness be- | | cause that is what I am. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, July 08, 2030 (189) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[07]--[06]--[06]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | SUFFERING IS SUFFERING, NOT YOURS OR MINE | | | | Is your suffering as an individual different from my suffering, or from | | the suffering of a man in Asia, in America, or in Russia? The circum- | | stances, the incidents may vary, but in essence another man's suffering | | is the same as mine and yours, isn't it? Suffering is suffering, surely, | | not yours or mine. Pleasure is not your pleasure, or my pleasure - it is | | pleasure. When you are hungry, it is not your hunger only, it is the | | hunger of the whole of Asia too. When you are driven by ambition, when | | you are ruthless, it is the same ruthlessness that drives the politi- | | cian, the man in power, whether he is in Asia, in America, or in Russi- | | a.You see, that is what we object to. We don't see that we are all one | | humanity, caught in different spheres of life, in different areas. When | | you love somebody, it is not your love. If it is, it becomes tyrannical, | | possessive, jealous, anxious, brutal. Similarly, suffering is suffering; | | it is not yours or mine. I am not just making it impersonal, I am not | | making it something abstract. When one suffers, one suffers. When a man | | has no food, no clothing, no shelter, he is suffering, whether he lives | | in Asia, or in the West. The people who are now being killed or wound- | | ed-the Vietnamese and the Americans-are suffering. To understand this | | suffering-which is neither yours nor mine, which is not impersonal or | | abstract, but actual and which we all have- requires great deal of pene- | | tration, insight. And the ending of this suffering will naturally bring | | about peace, not only within, but outside. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, July 09, 2030 (190) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[08]--[07]--[07]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | U N D E R S T A N D I N G S U F F E R I N G | | | | Why am I or why are you callous to another man's suffering? Why are we | | indifferent to the coolie who is carrying a heavy load, to the woman who | | is carrying a baby? Why are we so callous? To understand that, we must | | understand why suffering makes us dull. Surely, it is suffering that | | makes us callous; because we don't understand suffering, we become in- | | different to it. If I understand suffering, then I become sensitive to | | suffering, awake to everything, not only to myself, but to the people | | about me, to my wife, to my children, to an animal, to a beggar. But we | | don't want to understand suffering, and the escape from suffering makes | | us dull, and therefore we are callous. Sir, the point is that suffering, | | when not understood, dulls the mind and heart; and we do not understand | | suffering because we want to escape from it, through the guru, through a | | saviour, through mantras, through reincarnation, through ideas, through | | drink and every other kind of addiction-anything to escape what | | is....Now, the understanding of suffering does not lie in finding out | | what the cause is. Any man can know the cause of suffering; his own | | thoughtlessness, his stupidity, his narrowness, his brutality, and so | | on. But if I look at the suffering itself without wanting an answer, | | then what happens? Then, as I am not escaping, I begin to understand | | suffering; my mind is watchfully alert, keen, which means I become sen- | | sitive, and being sensitive, I am aware of other people's suffering. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, July 10, 2030 (191) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[09]--[08]--[08]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A C Q U I R I N G B E L I E F S T O W A R D O F F P A I N | | | | Physical pain is a nervous response, but psychological pain arises when | | I hold on to things that give me satisfaction, for then I am afraid of | | anyone or anything that may take them away from me. The psychological | | accumulations prevent psychological pain as long as they are undis- | | turbed; that is, I am a bundle of accumulations, experiences, which pre- | | vent any serious form of disturbance-and I do not want to be disturbed. | | Therefore I am afraid of anyone who disturbs them. Thus my fear is of | | the known; I am afraid of the accumulations, physical or psychological, | | that I have gathered as a means of warding off pain or preventing sor- | | row. But sorrow is in the very process of accumulating to ward off psy- | | chological pain. Knowledge also helps to prevent pain. As medical knowl- | | edge helps to prevent physical pain, so beliefs help to prevent psycho- | | logical pain, and that is why I am afraid of losing my beliefs, though I | | have no perfect knowledge or concrete proof of the reality of such be- | | liefs. I may reject some of the traditional beliefs that have been | | foisted on me because my own experience gives me strength, confidence, | | understanding; but such beliefs and the knowledge which I have acquired | | are basically the same-a means of warding off pain. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, July 11, 2030 (192) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[10]--[09]--[09]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I N T E G R A T E D U N D E R S T A N D I N G | | | | What do we mean by "grief"? Is it something apart from you?Is it some- | | thing outside of you, inwardly or outwardly, which you are observing, | | which you are experiencing? Are you merely the observer experiencing? | | Or, is it something different? Surely that is an important point, is it | | not? When I say "I suffer," what do I mean by it? Am I different from | | the suffering? Surely that is the question, is it not? Let us find | | out.There is sorrow - I am not loved, my son dies, what you will. There | | is one part of me that is demanding why, demanding the explanation, the | | reasons, the causes. The other part of me is in agony for various rea- | | sons. And there is also another part of me which wants to be free from | | the sorrow, which wants to go beyond it. We are all these things, are we | | not? So, if one part of me is rejecting, resisting sorrow, another part | | of me is seeking an explanation, is caught up in theories, and another | | part of me is escaping from the fact - how then can I understand it to- | | tally? It is only when I am capable of integrated understanding that | | there is a possibility of freedom from sorrow. But if I am torn in dif- | | ferent directions, then I do not see the truth of it....Now, please lis- | | ten carefully; and you will see that when there is a fact, a truth, | | there is understanding of it only when I can experience the whole thing | | without division-and not when there is the separation of the "me" ob- | | serving suffering. That is the truth. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, July 12, 2030 (193) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[11]--[10]--[10]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | Y O U A R E T H E S U F F E R I N G | | | | When there is no observer who is suffering, is the suffering different | | from you? You are the suffering, are you not? You are not apart from the | | pain-you are the pain. What happens? There is no labelling, there is no | | giving it a name and thereby brushing it aside-you are merely that pain, | | that feeling, that sense of agony. When you are that, what happens? When | | you do not name it, when there is no fear with regard to it, is the cen- | | tre related to it? If the centre is related to it, then it is afraid of | | it. Then it must act and do something about it. But if the centre is | | that, then what do you do? There is nothing to be done, is there? If you | | are that and you are not accepting it, not labelling it, not pushing it | | aside-if you are that thing, what happens? Do you say you suffer then? | | Surely, a fundamental transformation has taken place. Then there is no | | longer "I suffer", because there is no centre to suffer and the centre | | suffers because we have never examined what the centre is. We just live | | from word to word, from reaction to reaction. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, July 13, 2030 (194) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[12]--[11]--[11]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I S S U F F E R I N G E S S E N T I A L ? | | | | There are so many varieties and complications and degrees of suffering. | | We all know that. You know it very well, and we carry this burden right | | through life, practically from the moment we are born until the moment | | we collapse into the grave....If we say that it is inevitable, then | | there is no answer; if you accept it, then you have stopped inquiring | | into it. You have closed the door to further inquiry; if you escape from | | it, you have also closed the door. You may escape into man or woman, in- | | to drink, amusement, into various forms of power, position, prestige, | | and the internal chatter of nothingness. Then your escapes become al- | | l-important; the objects to which you fly assume colossal importance. So | | you have shut the door on sorrow also, and that is what most of us do. | | ...Now, can we stop escape of every kind and come back to suffering? | | ...That means not seeking a solution for suffering. There is physical | | suffering-a toothache, stomach-ache, an operation, accidents, various | | forms of physical sufferings which have their own answer. There is also | | the fear of future pain, which would cause suffering. Suffering is | | closely related to fear and, and without comprehension of these two ma- | | jor factors in life, we shall never comprehend what it is to be compas- | | sionate, to love. So a mind that is concerned with the comprehension of | | what is compassion, love, and all the rest of it must surely understand | | what is fear and what is sorrow. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, July 14, 2030 (195) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[13]--[12]--[12]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | CONSCIOUS SORROW AND UNCONSCIOUS SORROW | | | | Sorrow is. . . grief, uncertainty, the feeling of complete loneliness. | | There is the sorrow of death, the sorrow of not being able to fulfil | | oneself, the sorrow of not being recognized, the sorrow of loving and | | not being loved in return. There are innumerable forms of sorrow, and it | | seems to me that without understanding sorrow, there is no end to con- | | flict, to misery, to the everyday travail of corruption and deteriora- | | tion....There is conscious sorrow, and there is also unconscious sorrow, | | the sorrow that seems to have no basis, no immediate cause. Most of us | | know conscious sorrow, and we also know how to deal with it. Either we | | run away from it through religious belief or we rationalize it, or we | | take some kind of drug, whether intellectual or physical; or we bemuse | | ourselves with words, with amusements, with superficial entertainment. | | We do all this, and yet we cannot get away from conscious sorrow.Then | | there is the unconscious sorrow that we have inherited through the cen- | | turies. Man has always sought to overcome this extraordinary thing | | called sorrow, grief,misery; but even when we are superficially happy | | and have everything we want, deep down in the unconscious there are | | still the roots of sorrow. So when we talk about the ending of sorrow, | | we mean the ending of all sorrow, both conscious and unconscious.To end | | sorrow one must have a very clear, very simple mind. Simplicity is not a | | mere idea. To be simple demands a great deal of intelligence and sensi- | | tivity. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, July 15, 2030 (196) ☻ ♋ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[14]--[13]--[13]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H U R T F E E L I N G S | | | | ..."How should we act in order not to trouble others?" Is that what you | | want to know? I am afraid then we should not be acting at all. If you | | live completely, your actions may cause trouble; but what is more impor- | | tant: finding out what is true, or not disturbing others? This seems so | | simple that it hardly needs to be answered. Why do you want to respect | | other people's feelings and points of view? Are you afraid of having y- | | our own feelings hurt, your point of view being changed? If people have | | opinions that differ from yours, you can find out if they are true only | | by questioning them, by coming into active contact with them. And if you | | find that those opinions and feelings are not true, your discovery may | | cause disturbance to those who cherish them. Then what should you do? | | Should you comply with them, or compromise with them in order not to | | hurt your friends? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, July 16, 2030 (197) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[15]--[14]--[14]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S E L F - I M A G E L E A D S T O P A I N | | | | Why divide problems as major and minor? Is not everything a problem? Why | | make them little or big problems, essential or unessential problems? If | | we could understand one problem, go into it very deeply however small or | | big it is, then we would uncover all problems. This is not a rhetorical | | answer. Take any problem: anger, jealousy, envy, hatred - we know them | | all very well. If you go into anger very deeply, not just brush it | | aside, then what is involved? Why is one angry? Because one is hurt, | | someone has said an unkind thing; and when someone says a flattering | | thing you are pleased. Why are you hurt? Self-importance, is it not? And | | why is there self-importance?Because one has an idea, a symbol of one- | | self, an image of oneself, what one should be, what one is or what one | | should not be. Why does one create an image about oneself? Because one | | has never studied what one is, actually. We think we should be this or | | that, the ideal, the hero, the example. What awakens anger is that our | | ideal, the idea we have of ourselves, is attacked. And our idea about | | ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we are. But when you are | | observing the actual fact of what you are, no one can hurt you. Then, if | | one is a liar and is told that one is a liar it does not mean that one | | is hurt; it is a fact. But when you are pretending you are not a liar | | and are told that you are, then you get angry, violent. So we are always | | living in an ideational world, a world of myth and never in the world of | | actuality. To observe what is, to see it, actually be familiar with it, | | there must be no judgement, no evaluation, no opinion, no fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, July 17, 2030 (198) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[16]--[15]--[15]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | P E R V E R T E D P L E A S U R E | | | | There is such a thing as sadism. Do you know what that word means? An | | author called the Marquis de Sade once wrote a book about a man who en- | | joyed hurting people and seeing them suffer. From that comes the word | | sadism, which means deriving pleasure from the suffering of others. For | | certain people there is a peculiar satisfaction in seeing others suffer. | | Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, | | but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse | | to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled | | down; you criticize, gossip thoughtlessly about others, all of which is | | an expression of insensitivity, a form of wanting to hurt people. One | | may injure another deliberately, with vengeance, or one may do it uncon- | | sciously with a word, with a gesture with a look; but in either case the | | urge is to hurt somebody, and there are very few who radically set aside | | this perverted form of pleasure. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, July 18, 2030 (199) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[17]--[16]--[16]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | R E A L E D U C A T I O N | | | | The mind creates through experience, tradition, memory. Can the mind be | | free from storing up, though it is experiencing? You understand the dif- | | ference? What is required is not the cultivation of memory but the free- | | dom from the accumulative process of the mind.You hurt me, which is an | | experience; and I store up that hurt; and that becomes my tradition; and | | from that tradition, I look at you, I react from that tradition. That is | | the everyday process of my mind and your mind. Now, is it possible that, | | though you hurt me, the accumulative process does not take place. The | | two processes are entirely different.If you say harsh words to me, it | | hurts me; but if that hurt is not given importance, it does not become | | the background from which I act; so it is possible that I meet you | | afresh. That is real education, in the deep sense of the word. Because, | | then, though I see the conditioning effects of experience, the mind is | | not conditioned. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, July 19, 2030 (200) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[18]--[17]--[17]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C E S S A T I O N O F A N G E R | | | | We have all, I am sure, tried to subdue anger but somehow that does not | | seem to dissolve it. Is there a different approach to dissipate | | anger?...Anger may spring from physical or psychological causes. One is | | angry, perhaps, because one is thwarted, one's defensive reactions are | | being broken down, or one's security which has been carefully built up | | is being threatened, and so on. We are all familiar with anger. How is | | one to understand and dissolve anger? If you consider that your beliefs, | | concepts, opinions, are of the greatest importance, then you are bound | | to react violently when questioned. Instead of clinging to beliefs, | | opinions, if you begin to question whether they are essential to one's | | comprehension of life, then through the understanding of its causes | | there is the cessation of anger. Thus one begins to dissolve one's own | | resistances which cause conflict and pain. This again requires earnest- | | ness. We are used to controlling ourselves for sociological or religious | | reasons or for convenience, but to uproot anger requires deep aware- | | ness....You say you are angry when you hear of injustice. Is it because | | you love humanity, because you are compassionate? Do compassion and | | anger dwell together? Can there be justice when there is anger, hatred? | | You are perhaps angry at the thought of general injustice, cruelty, but | | your anger does not alter injustice or cruelty; it can only do harm. To | | bring about order, you yourself have to be thoughtful, compassionate. | | Action born of hatred can only create further hatred. There can be no | | righteousness where there is anger. Righteousness and anger cannot dwell | | together. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, July 20, 2030 (201) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[19]--[18]--[18]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F O R G I V E N E S S I S N O T T R U E C O M P A S S I O N | | | | What is it to be compassionate? Please find out for yourself, feel it | | out, whether a mind that is hurt, that can be hurt, can ever forgive. | | Can a mind that is capable of being hurt, ever forgive? And can such a | | mind which is capable of being hurt, which is cultivating virtue, which | | is conscious of generosity, can such a mind be compassionate? Compas- | | sion, as love, is something which is not of the mind. The mind is not | | conscious of itself as being compassionate, as loving. But the moment | | you forgive consciously, the mind is strengthening its own centre in its | | own hurt. So the mind which consciously forgives can never forgive; it | | does not know forgiveness; it forgives in order not to be further | | hurt.So it is very important to find out why the mind actually remember- | | s, stores away. Because the mind is everlastingly seeking to aggrandize | | itself, to become big, to be something When the mind is willing not to | | be anything, to be nothing, completely nothing, then in that state there | | is compassion. In that state there is neither forgiveness nor the state | | of hurt; but to understand that, one has to understand the conscious de- | | velopment of the "me...."So, as long as there is the conscious cultiva- | | tion of any particular influence, any particular virtue, there can be no | | love, there can be no compassion, because love and compassion are not | | the result of conscious effort. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, July 21, 2030 (202) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[20]--[19]--[19]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | WHERE THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF PAIN THERE IS NO LOVE | | | | The questioner wants to know how he can act freely and without self-re- | | pression when he knows his action must hurt those he loves. You know, to | | love is to be free-both parties are free. Where there is the possibility | | of pain, where there is the possibility of suffering in love, it is not | | love, it is merely a subtle form of possession, of acquisitiveness. If | | you love, really love someone, there is no possibility of giving him | | pain when you do something that you think is right. It is only when you | | want that person to do what you desire or he wants you to do what he de- | | sires, that there is pain. That is, you like to be possessed; you feel | | safe, secure, comfortable; though you know that comfort is but transien- | | t, you take shelter in that comfort, in that transience. So each strug- | | gle for comfort, for encouragement, really but betrays the lack of in- | | ward richness; and therefore an action separate, apart from the other | | individual naturally creates disturbance, pain and suffering; and one | | individual has to suppress what he really feels in order to adjust him- | | self to the other. In other words, this constant repression, brought | | about by so-called love, destroys the two individuals. In that love | | there is no freedom; it is merely a subtle bondage. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, July 22, 2030 (203) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[21]--[20]--[20]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E N A T U R E O F T H E T R A P | | | | Sorrow is the result of a shock, it is the temporary shaking up of a | | mind that has settled down, that has accepted the routine of life. Some- | | thing happens-a death, the loss of a job, the questioning of a cherished | | belief-and the mind is disturbed. But what does a disturbed mind do? It | | finds a way to be undisturbed again; it takes refuge in another belief, | | in a more secure job, in a new relationship. Again the wave of life | | comes along and shatters its safeguards, but the mind soon finds still | | further defences; and so it goes on. This is not the way of intelli- | | gence, is it?No form of external or inward compulsion will help, will | | it? All compulsion, however subtle, is the outcome of ignorance; it is | | born of the desire for reward or the fear of punishment. To understand | | the whole nature of the trap is to be free of it; no person, no system, | | no belief can set you free. The truth of this is the only liberating | | factor-but you have to see it for yourself, and not merely be persuaded. | | You have to take the voyage on an uncharted sea. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, July 23, 2030 (204) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[22]--[21]--[21]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E E N D O F S O R R O W | | | | If you walk down the road, you will see the splendour of nature, the ex- | | traordinary beauty of the green fields and the open skies; and you will | | hear the laughter of children. But in spite of all that, there is a | | sense of sorrow. There is the anguish of a woman bearing a child; there | | is sorrow in death; there is sorrow when you are looking forward to | | something, and it does not happen; there is sorrow when a nation runs | | down, goes to seed; and there is the sorrow of corruption, not only in | | the collective, but also in the individual. There is sorrow in your own | | house, if you look deeply - the sorrow of not being able to fulfil, the | | sorrow of your own pettiness or incapacity, and various unconscious sor- | | rows.There is also laughter in life. Laughter is a lovely thing - to | | laugh without reason, to have joy in one's heart without cause, to love | | without seeking anything in return. But such laughter rarely happens to | | us. We are burdened with sorrow; our life is a process of misery and | | strife, a continuous disintegration, and we almost never know what it is | | to love with our whole being....We want to find a solution, a means, a | | method by which to resolve this burden of life, and so we never actually | | look at sorrow. We try to escape through myths, through images, through | | speculation; we hope to find some way to avoid this weight, to stay a- | | head of the wave of sorrow....Sorrow has an ending, but it does not come | | about through any system or method. There is no sorrow when there is | | perception of what is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, July 24, 2030 (205) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[23]--[22]--[22]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M E E T I N G S O R R O W | | | | How do you meet sorrow? I'm afraid that most of us meet it very superfi- | | cially. Our education, our training, our knowledge, the sociological in- | | fluences to which we are exposed, all make us superficial. A superficial | | mind is one that escapes to the church, to some conclusion, to some con- | | cept, to some belief or idea. Those are all a refuge for the superficial | | mind that is in sorrow. And if you cannot find a refuge, you build a | | wall around yourself and become cynical, hard, indifferent, or you | | escape through some facile, neurotic reaction. All such defences against | | suffering prevent further inquiry....Please watch your own mind; observe | | how you explain your sorrows away, lose yourself in work, in ideas, or | | cling to a belief in God, or in a future life. And if no explanation, no | | belief has been satisfactory, you escape through drink, through sex, or | | by becoming cynical, hard, bitter brittle. ...Generation after genera- | | tion it has been passed on by parents to their children, and the super- | | ficial mind never takes the bandage off that wound; it does not really | | know, it is not really acquainted with sorrow. It merely has an idea | | about sorrow. It has a picture, a symbol of sorrow, but it never meets | | sorrow-it meets only the word sorrow. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, July 25, 2030 (206) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[24]--[23]--[23]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | E V A D I N G S O R R O W | | | | Most of us have sorrow in different forms-in relationship, in the death | | of someone, in not fulfilling oneself and withering away to nothing, or | | in trying to achieve, trying to become something, and meeting with total | | failure. And there is the whole problem of sorrow on the physical | | side-illness, blindness, incapacitation, paralysis, and so on. Every- | | where there is this extraordinary thing called sorrow-with death waiting | | round the corner. And we do not know how to meet sorrow, so either we | | worship it, or rationalize it, or try to run away from it. Go to any | | Christian church and you will find that sorrow is worshipped; it is made | | into something extraordinary, holy, and it is said that only through | | sorrow, through the crucified Christ, can you find God. In the East they | | have their own forms of evasion, other ways of avoiding sorrow, and it | | seems to me an extraordinary thing that so very few, whether in the East | | or in the West, are really free of sorrow.It would be a marvellous thing | | if in the process of your listening-unemotionally, not sentimentally-to | | what is being said...you could really understand sorrow and be totally | | free of it; because then there would be no self-deception, no illusions, | | no anxieties, no fear, and the brain could function clearly, sharply, | | logically. And then, perhaps, one would know what love is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, July 26, 2030 (207) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[25]--[24]--[24]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F O L L O W T H E M O V E M E N T O F S U F F E R I N G | | | | What is suffering?...What does it mean? What is it that is suffering? | | Not why there is suffering, not what is the cause of suffering, but what | | is actually happening? I do not know if you see the difference. Then I | | am simply aware of suffering, not as apart from me, not as an observer | | watching suffering-it is part of me, that is, the whole of me is suffer- | | ing. Then I am able to follow its movement, see where it leads. Surely | | if I do that, it opens up, does it not? Then I see that I have laid em- | | phasis on the "me"-not on the person whom I love. He only acted to cover | | me from my misery, from my loneliness, from my misfortune. As I am not | | something, I hoped he would be that. That has gone; I am left, I am | | lost, I am lonely. Without him, I am nothing. So I cry. It is not that | | he is gone but that I am left. I am alone....There are innumerable peo- | | ple to help me to escape-thousands of so-called religious people, with | | their beliefs and dogmas, hopes and fantasies- "It is karma, it is God's | | will"-you know, all giving me a way out. But if I can stay with it and | | not put it away from me, not try to circumscribe or deny it, then what | | happens? What is the state of my mind when it is thus following the | | movement of suffering? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, July 27, 2030 (208) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[26]--[25]--[25]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S P O N T A N E O U S C O M P R E H E N S I O N | | | | We never say, "Let me see what that thing is that suffers." You cannot | | see by enforcement, by discipline. You must look with interest, with | | spontaneous comprehension. Then you will see that the thing we call suf- | | fering, pain, the thing that we avoid, and the discipline, have all | | gone. As long as I have no relationship to the thing as outside me, the | | problem is not; the moment I establish a relationship with it outside | | me, the problem is. As long as I treat suffering as something outside-I | | suffer because I lost my brother, because I have no money, because of | | this or that-I establish a relationship to it and that relationship is | | fictitious. But if I am that thing, if I see the fact, then the whole | | thing is transformed, it all has a different meaning. Then there is full | | attention, integrated attention and that which is completely regarded is | | understood and dissolved, and so there is no fear and therefore the word | | sorrow is non-existent.. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, July 28, 2030 (209) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[27]--[26]--[26]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E C E N T R E O F S U F F E R I N G | | | | When you see a most lovely thing, a beautiful mountain, a beautiful sun- | | set, a ravishing smile, a ravishing face, that fact stuns you, and you | | are silent; hasn't it ever happened to you? Then you hug the world in | | your arms. But that is something from outside which comes to your mind, | | but I am talking of the mind which is not stunned but which wants to | | look, to observe. Now, can you observe without all this upsurging of | | conditioning? To a person in sorrow, I explain in words; sorrow is | | inevitable, sorrow is the result of fulfilment. When all explanations | | have completely stopped, then only can you look-which means you are not | | looking from the centre. When you look from a centre, your faculties of | | observation are limited. If I hold to a post and want to be there, there | | is a strain, there is pain. When I look from the centre into suffering, | | there is suffering. It is the incapacity to observe that creates pain. I | | cannot observe if I think, function, see from a centre-as when I say, "I | | must have no pain, I must find out why I suffer, I must escape." When I | | observe from a centre, whether the centre is a conclusion, an idea, | | hope, despair, or anything else, that observation is very restricted, | | very narrow, very small, and that engenders sorrow.. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, July 29, 2030 (210) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[28]--[27]--[27]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A N I M M E N S I T Y B E Y O N D A L L M E A S U R E | | | | What happens when you lose someone by death? The immediate reaction is a | | sense of paralysis, and when you come out of that state of shock, there | | is what we call sorrow. Now, what does that word sorrow mean? The com- | | panionship, the happy words, the walks, the many pleasant things you did | | and hoped to do together-all this is taken away in a second, and you are | | left empty, naked, lonely. That is what you are objecting to, that is | | what the mind rebels against: being suddenly left to itself, utterly | | lonely, empty, without any support. Now, what matters is to live with | | that emptiness, just to live with it without any reaction, without ra- | | tionalizing it, without running away from it to mediums, to the theory | | of reincarnation, and all that stupid nonsense-to live with it with your | | whole being. And if you go into it step by step you will find that there | | is an ending of sorrow-a real ending, not just a verbal ending, not the | | superficial ending that comes through escape, through identification | | with a concept, or commitment to an idea. Then you will find there is | | nothing to protect, because the mind is completely empty and is no | | longer reacting in the sense of trying to fill that emptiness; and when | | all sorrow has thus come to an end, you will have started on another | | journey-a journey that has no ending and no beginning. There is an im- | | mensity that is beyond all measure, but you cannot possibly enter into | | that world without the total ending of sorrow.. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, July 30, 2030 (211) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[29]--[28]--[28]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I V E W I T H S O R R O W | | | | We all have sorrow. Don't you have sorrow in one form or another? And do | | you want to know about it? If you do, you can analyse it and explain why | | you suffer. You can read books on the subject, or go to the church, and | | you will soon know something about sorrow. But I am not talking about | | that; I am talking about the ending of sorrow. Knowledge does not end | | sorrow. The ending of sorrow begins with the facing of psychological | | facts within oneself and being totally aware of all the implications of | | those facts from moment to moment. This means never escaping from the | | fact that one is in sorrow, never rationalizing it, never offering an | | opinion about it, but living with that fact completely.You know,to live | | with the beauty of those mountains and not get accustomed to it is very | | difficult.... You have beheld those mountains, heard the stream, and | | seen the shadows creep across the valley, day after day; and have you | | not noticed how easily you get used to it all? You say, "Yes, it is | | quite beautiful," and you pass by. To live with beauty, or to live with | | an ugly thing, and not become habituated to it requires enormous ener- | | gy-an awareness that does not allow your mind to grow dull. In the same | | way, sorrow dulls the mind if you merely get used to it-and most of us | | do get used to it. But you need not get used to sorrow. You can live | | with sorrow, understand it, go into it-but not in order to know about | | it. You know that sorrow is there; it is a fact, and there is nothing | | more to know. You have to live. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, July 31, 2030 (212) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[30]--[29]--[29]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E I N C O M M U N I O N W I T H S O R R O W | | | | Most of us are not in communion with anything. We are not directly in | | communion with our friends, with our wives, with our children....So to | | understand sorrow, surely you must love it, must you not? That is, you | | must be in direct communion with it. If you would understand some- | | thing-your neighbour, your wife, or any relationship-if you would under- | | stand something completely, you must be near it. You must come to it | | without any objection, prejudice, condemnation, or repulsion; you must | | look at it, must you not? If I would understand you, I must have no | | prejudices about you. I must be capable of looking at you, not through | | barriers, screens of my prejudices and conditionings. I must be in com- | | munion with you, which means I must love you. Similarly, if I would un- | | derstand sorrow, I must love it, I must be in communion with it. I can- | | not do so because I am running away from it through explanations, | | through theories, through hopes, through postponements, which are all | | the process of verbalization. So words prevent me from being in commu- | | nion with sorrow. Words prevent me-words of explanations, rationaliza- | | tions, which are still words, which are the mental process-from being | | directly in communion with sorrow. It is only when I am in communion | | with sorrow that I understand it. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ A-U-G-U-S-T 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 29[☺] 07[◑] 13[☻] 20[☽] | 01 02 03 04 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 __[♌LEO]__/ 19 20[21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 / [♍VIRGO] Monthly Goals: Thursday, August 01, 2030 (213) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | AUG/ SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[31]--[30]--[30]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F U L L H E A R T , E M P T Y M I N D | | | | There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you | | only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in | | your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind. | | When there is love in your heart, you do not talk about organizing for | | brotherhood; you do not talk about belief, you do not talk about divi- | | sion or the powers that create division, you need not seek reconcilia- | | tion. Then you are a simply a human being without a label, without a | | country. This means that you must strip yourself of all those things and | | allow truth to come into being; and it can come only when the mind is | | empty, when the mind ceases to create. Then it will come without your | | invitation. Then it will come as swiftly as the wind and unbeknown. It | | comes obscurely, not when you are watching, wanting. It is there as sud- | | den as sunlight, as pure as the night; but to receive it, the heart must | | be full and the mind empty. Now you have the mind full and your heart | | empty. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, August 02, 2030 (214) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ OCT/ NOV/ +---[01]--[01]--[31]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T R U T H I S A S T A T E O F B E I N G | | | | So, there is no path to truth, and there are not two truths. Truth is | | not of the past or of the present, it is timeless; and the man who | | quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of the Christ, or who mere- | | ly repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is | | not truth. Repetition is a lie. Truth is a state of being which arises | | when the mind- which seeks to divide, to be exclusive, which can think | | only in terms of results, of achievement- has come to an end. Only then | | will there be truth. The mind that is making effort, disciplining itself | | in order to achieve an end, cannot know truth, because the end is its | | own projection, and the pursuit of that projection, however noble, is a | | form of self -worship. Such a being is worshipping himself, and there- | | fore he cannot know truth. Truth is to be known only when we understand | | the whole process of the mind, that is, when there is no strife. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, August 03, 2030 (215) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[02]--[02]--[01]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T R U T H H A S N O A B I D I N G P L A C E | | | | Truth is a fact, and the fact can be understood only when the various | | things that have been placed between the mind and the fact are removed. | | The fact is your relationship to property, to your wife, to human be- | | ings, to nature, to ideas; and as long as you do not understand the fact | | of relationship, your seeking God merely increases the confusion because | | it is a substitution, an escape, and therefore it has no meaning. As | | long as you dominate your wife or she dominates you, as long as you pos- | | sess and are possessed, you cannot know love; as long as you are sup- | | pressing, substituting, as long as you are ambitious, you cannot know | | truth.He alone shall know truth who is not seeking, who is not striving, | | who is not trying to achieve a result. ...Truth is not continuous, it | | has no abiding place, it can be seen only from moment to moment. Truth | | is always new, therefore timeless. What was truth yesterday is not truth | | today, what is truth today is not truth tomorrow. Truth has no continu- | | ity. It is the mind which wants to make the experience which it calls | | truth continuous, and such a mind shall not know truth. Truth is always | | new; it is to see the same smile, and see that smile newly, to see the | | same person, and see that person anew, to see the waving palms anew, to | | meet life anew. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, August 04, 2030 (216) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[03]--[03]--[02]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E R E I S N O G U I D E T O T R U T H | | | | Is God to be found by seeking him out? Can you search after the unknow- | | able? To find, you must know what you are seeking. If you seek to find, | | what you find will be a self-projection; it will be what you desire, and | | the creation of desire is not truth. To seek truth is to deny it. Truth | | has no fixed abode; there is no path, no guide to it, and the word is | | not truth. Is truth to be found in a particular setting, in a special | | climate, among certain people? Is it here and not there? Is that one the | | guide to truth, and not another? Is there a guide at all? When truth is | | sought, what is found can only come out of ignorance, for the search it- | | self is born of ignorance. You cannot search out reality; you must cease | | for reality to be. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, August 05, 2030 (217) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[04]--[04]--[03]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T R U T H I S F O U N D M O M E N T T O M O M E N T | | | | Truth cannot be accumulated. What is accumulated is always being de- | | stroyed; it withers away. Truth can never wither because it can only be | | found from moment to moment in every thought, in every relationship, in | | every word, in every gesture, in a smile, in tears. And if you and I can | | find that and live it- the very living is the finding of it- then we | | shall not become propagandists; we shall be creative human beings- not | | perfect human beings, but creative human beings, which is vastly differ- | | ent. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, August 06, 2030 (218) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[05]--[05]--[04]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E T R U E R E V O L U T I O N A R Y | | | | Truth is not for those who are respectable, nor for those who desire | | self-extension, self-fulfilment. Truth is not for those who are seeking | | security, permanency; for the permanency they seek is merely the oppo- | | site of impermanency. Being caught in the net of time, they seek that | | which is permanent, but the permanent they seek is not the real because | | what they seek is the product of their thought. Therefore, a man who | | would discover reality must cease to seek- which does not mean that he | | must be contented with what is. On the contrary, a man who is intent | | upon the discovery of truth must be inwardly a complete revolutionary. | | He cannot belong to any class, to any nation, to any group or ideology, | | to any organized religion; for truth is not in the temple or the church, | | truth is not to be found in the things made by the hand or by the mind. | | Truth comes into being only when the things of the mind and of the hand | | are put aside, and that putting aside of the things of the mind and of | | the hand is not a matter of time. Truth comes to him who is free of | | time, who is not using time as a means of self-extension. Time means | | memory of yesterday, memory of your family, of your race, of your par- | | ticular character, of the accumulation of your experience which makes up | | the 'me' and the 'mine'. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, August 07, 2030 (219) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[06]--[06]--[05]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | S E E T H E T R U T H I N T H E F A L S E | | | | You may superficially agree when you hear it said that nationalism, with | | all its emotionalism and vested interest, leads to exploitation and the | | setting of man against man; but to really free your mind from the petti- | | ness of nationalism is another matter. To be free, not only from nation- | | alism but also from all the conclusions of organized religions and po- | | litical systems, is essential if the mind is to be young, fresh, inno- | | cent, that is, in a state of revolution; and it is only such a mind that | | can create a new world- not the politicians, who are dead, nor the | | priests, who are caught in their own religious systems.So, fortunately | | or unfortunately for yourself, you have heard something which is true; | | and if you merely hear it and are not actively disturbed so that your | | mind begins to free itself from all the things which are making it nar- | | row and crooked, then the truth you have heard will become a poison. | | Surely, truth becomes a poison if it is heard and does not act in the | | mind, like the festering of a wound. But to discover for oneself what is | | true and what is false, and to see the truth in the false, is to let | | that truth operate and bring forth its own action. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, August 08, 2030 (220) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[07]--[07]--[06]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | U N D E R S T A N D T H E A C T U A L | | | | It is really not complex, though it may be arduous. You see, we don't | | start with the actual, with the fact, with what we are thinking, doing, | | desiring; we start with assumptions, or with ideals, which are not actu- | | alities, and so we are led astray. To start with facts, and not with as- | | sumptions, we need close attention; and every form of thinking not orig- | | inating from the actual is a distraction. That's why it is so important | | to understand what is actually taking place both within and around | | one....If you are a Christian, your visions follow a certain pattern; if | | you are a Hindu, a Buddhist, or a Muslim, they follow a different pat- | | tern. You see Christ or Krishna, according to your conditioning; your | | education, the culture in which you have been brought up, determines y- | | our visions. Which is the actuality: the vision, or the mind which has | | been shaped in a certain mold? The vision is the projection of the par- | | ticular tradition which happens to form the background of the mind. This | | conditioning, not the vision which it projects, is the actuality, the | | fact. To understand the fact is simple; but it is made difficult by our | | likes and dislikes, by our condemnation of the fact, by the opinions or | | judgements we have about the fact. To be free of these various forms of | | evaluation is to understand the actual, the what is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, August 09, 2030 (221) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[08]--[08]--[07]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | TRANSLATION OF THE FACTS PREVENTS SEEING | | | | A mind that gives an opinion about a fact is a narrow, limited, destruc- | | tive mind. ...You can translate the fact in one way, and I can translate | | it in another way. The translation of the fact is a curse which prevents | | us from seeing the actual fact and doing something about the fact. When | | you and I discuss our opinions about the fact, nothing is done about the | | fact; you can add perhaps more to the fact, see more nuances, implica- | | tions, significance about the fact, and I may see less significance in | | the facts. But the fact cannot be interpreted; I cannot offer an opinion | | about the fact. It is so, and it is very difficult for a mind to accept | | the fact. We are always translating, we are always giving different | | meanings to it, according to our prejudices, conditionings, hopes, fears | | and all the rest of it. If you and I could see the fact without offering | | an opinion, interpreting, giving a significance, then the fact becomes | | much more alive- not more alive- the fact is there alone, nothing else | | matters; then the fact has its own energy which drives you in the right | | direction. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, August 10, 2030 (222) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[09]--[09]--[08]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THERE IS ONLY ONE FACT: IMPERMANENCE | | | | We are trying to find out if there is, or is not, a permanent state- not | | what we would like, but the actual fact, the truth of the matter. Every- | | thing about us, within as well as without- our relationships, our | | thoughts, our feelings- is impermanent, in a constant state of flux. Be- | | ing aware of this, the mind craves permanency, a perpetual state of | | peace, of love, of goodness, a security that neither time nor events can | | destroy; therefore it creates the soul, the Atman, and the visions of a | | permanent paradise. But this permanency is born of impermanency, and so | | it has within it the seeds of the impermanent. There is only one fact: | | impermanence. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, August 11, 2030 (223) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[10]--[10]--[09]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H A N K E R I N G A F T E R T H E U N K N O W A B L E | | | | You want me to tell you what reality is. Can the indescribable be put | | into words? Can you measure something immeasurable? Can you catch the | | wind in your fist? If you do, is that the wind? If you measure that | | which is immeasurable, is that the real? If you formulate it, is it the | | real? Surely not, for the moment you describe something which is inde- | | scribable, it ceases to be the real. The moment you translate the un- | | knowable into the known, it ceases to be the unknowable. Yet that is | | what we are hankering after. All the time we want to know, because then | | we shall be able to continue, then we shall be able, we think, to cap- | | ture ultimate happiness, permanency. We want to know because we are not | | happy, because we are striving miserably, because we are worn out, de- | | graded. Yet instead of realizing the simple fact- that we are degraded, | | that we are dull, weary, in turmoil- we want to move away from what is | | the known into the unknown, which again becomes the known and therefore | | we can never find the real. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, August 12, 2030 (224) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[11]--[11]--[10]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | IS SUFFERING MERELY A WORD OR AN ACTUALITY? | | | | Is suffering merely a word, or an actuality? If it is an actuality and | | not just a word, then the word has no meaning now, so there is merely | | the feeling of intense pain. With regard to what? With regard to an im- | | age, to an experience, to something which you have or have not. If you | | have it, you call it pleasure; if you haven't it is pain. Therefore | | pain, sorrow, is in relationship to something. Is that something merely | | verbalization, or an actuality?-as fear cannot exist by itself but only | | in relationship to something: to an individual, to an incident, to a | | feeling. Now, you are fully aware of the suffering. Is that suffering | | apart from you and therefore you are merely the observer who perceives | | the suffering, or is that suffering you? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, August 13, 2030 (225) ☻ ♌ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[12]--[12]--[11]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | Y O U A N D N O T H I N G N E S S A R E O N E | | | | You are nothing. You may have your name and title, your property and | | bank account, you may have power and be famous; but in spite of all | | these safeguards, you are as nothing. You may be totally unaware of this | | emptiness, this nothingness, or you may simply not want to be aware of | | it; but it is there, do what you will to avoid it. You may try to escape | | from it in devious ways, through personal or collective violence, | | through individual or collective worship, through knowledge or amusemen- | | t; but whether you are asleep or awake, it is always there. You can come | | upon your relationship to this nothingness and its fear only by being | | choicelessly aware of the escapes. You are not related to it as a sepa- | | rate, individual entity; you are not the observer watching it; without | | you, the thinker, the observer, it is not. You and nothingness are one; | | you and nothingness are a joint phenomenon, not two separate processes. | | If you, the thinker, are afraid of it and approach it as something con- | | trary and opposed to you, then any action you may take towards it must | | inevitably lead to illusion and so to further conflict and misery. When | | there is the discovery, the experiencing of that nothingness as you, | | then fear- which exists only when the thinker is separate from his | | thoughts and so tries to establish a relationship with them- completely | | drops away. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, August 14, 2030 (226) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[13]--[13]--[12]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | H O W D O W E E N D F E A R ? | | | | We are discussing something which needs your attention, not your agree- | | ment or disagreement. We are looking at life most rigorously, objective- | | ly, clearly- not according to your sentiment, your fancy, what you like | | or don't like. It's what we like and don't like that has created this | | misery. All that we are saying is this: "How do we end fear?" That's one | | of our great problems, because if a human being can't end it he lives in | | darkness everlastingly, not everlastingly in the Christian sense but in | | the ordinary sense; one life is good enough. For me, as a human being, | | there must be a way out and not by creating a hope in some future. Can I | | as a human being end fear, totally; not little bits of it? Probably y- | | ou've never put this question to yourself, and probably you've not put | | the question because you don't know how to get out of it. But if you did | | put that question most seriously, with the intention of finding out not | | how to end it, but with the intention of finding out the nature and the | | structure of fear, the moment you have found out, fear itself comes to | | an end; you don't have to do anything about it.When we are aware of it | | and come into contact with it directly, the observer is the observed. | | There is no difference between the observer and the thing observed. When | | fear is observed without the observer, there is action, but not the ac- | | tion of the observer acting upon fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, August 15, 2030 (227) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[14]--[14]--[13]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E D U A L I T Y O F T H I N K E R A N D T H O U G H T | | | | As you watch anything- a tree, your wife, your children, your neighbour, | | the stars of a night, the light on the water, the bird in the sky, any- | | thing- there is always the observer- the censor, the thinker the experi- | | encer, the seeker- and the thing he is observing; the observer and the | | observed; the thinker and the thought. So, there is always a division. | | It is this division that is time. That division is the very essence of | | conflict. And when there is conflict, there is contradiction. There is | | "the observer and the observed"-that is a contradiction; there is a sep- | | aration. And hence where there is contradiction, there is conflict. And | | when there is conflict, there is always the urgency to get beyond it, to | | conquer it, to overcome it, to escape from it, to do something about it, | | and all that activity involves time. As long as there is this division, | | time will go on, and time is sorrow.And a man who will understand the | | end of sorrow must understand this, must find, must go beyond this dual- | | ity between the thinker and the thought, the experiencer and the experi- | | enced. That is, when there is a division between the observer and the | | observed, there is time, and therefore there is no ending of sorrow. | | Then, what is one to do? You understand the question? I see, within my- | | self, the observer is always watching, judging, censoring, accepting, | | rejecting, disciplining, controlling, shaping. That observer, that | | thinker, is the result of thought, obviously. Thought is first; not the | | observer, not the thinker. If there was no thinking at all, there would | | be no observer, no thinker; then there would only be complete, total at- | | tention. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, August 16, 2030 (228) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[15]--[15]--[14]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H O U G H T C R E A T E S T H E T H I N K E R | | | | Thought is verbalized sensation; thought is the response of memory, the | | word, the experience, the image. Thought is transient, changing, imper- | | manent, and it is seeking permanency. So thought creates the thinker, | | who then becomes the permanent; he assumes the role of the censor, the | | guide, the controller, the molder of thought. This illusory permanent | | entity is the product of thought, of the transient. This entity is | | thought; without thought he is not. The thinker is made up of qualities; | | his qualities cannot be separated from himself. The controller is the | | controlled, he is merely playing a deceptive game with himself. Till the | | false is seen as the false, truth is not. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, August 17, 2030 (229) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[16]--[16]--[15]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A W A L L O F I M P R E G N A B L E T H O U G H T | | | | "How can there be a fusion of the thinker with his thoughts?" Not | | through the action of will, nor through discipline, nor through any form | | of effort, control or concentration, nor through any other means. The | | use of a means implies an agent who is acting, does it not? As long as | | there is an actor, there will be a division. The fusion takes place only | | when the mind is utterly still without trying to be still. There is this | | stillness, not when the thinker comes to an end, but only when thought | | itself has come to an end. There must be freedom from the response of | | conditioning, which is thought. Each problem is solved only when idea, | | conclusion is not; conclusions, idea, thought, are the agitations of the | | mind. How can there be understanding when the mind is agitated? Earnest- | | ness must be tempered with the swift play of spontaneity. You will find, | | if you have heard all that has been said, that truth will come in mo- | | ments when you are not expecting it. If I may say so, be open, sensi- | | tive, be fully aware of what is from moment to moment. Don't build | | around yourself a wall of impregnable thought. The bliss of truth comes | | when the mind is not occupied with its own activities and struggles. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, August 18, 2030 (230) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[17]--[17]--[16]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H E N T H E O B S E R V E R I S T H E O B S E R V E D | | | | Space is necessary. Without space there is no freedom. We are talking | | psychologically. It is only when one is in contact, when there is no s- | | pace between the observer and the observed that one is in total rela- | | tionship - with a tree for instance. One is not identified with the | | tree, the flower, a woman, a man or whatever it is, but when there is | | this complete absence of space as the observer and the observed, then | | there is vast space. In that space there is no conflict; in that space | | there is freedom.Freedom is not a reaction. You cannot say, " Well, I am | | free". The moment you say you are free you are not free, because you are | | conscious of yourself as being free from something, and therefore you | | have the same situation as an observer observing a tree. He has created | | a space, and in that space he breeds conflict. To understand this re- | | quires not intellectual agreement or disagreement, or saying, "I don't | | understand", but rather it requires coming directly into contact with | | what is. It means seeing that all your actions, every moment of action | | is of the observer and the observed, and within that space there is | | pleasure, pain and suffering the desire to fulfil, to become famous. | | Within that space there is no contact with anything. Contact, relation- | | ship has a quite different meaning when the observer is no longer apart | | from the observed. There is this extraordinary space, and there is free- | | dom. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, August 19, 2030 (231) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[18]--[18]--[17]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | IS THERE AN OBSERVER WATCHING LONELINESS? | | | | My mind observes loneliness, and avoids it, runs away from it. But if I | | do not run away from it, is there a division, is there a separation, is | | there an observer watching loneliness? Or, is there only a state of | | loneliness, my mind itself being empty, lonely? Not that there is an ob- | | server who knows that there is loneliness. I think this is important to | | grasp, swiftly, not verbalizing too much. We say now "I am envious, and | | I want to get rid of envy," so there is an observer and the observed; | | the observer wishes to get rid of that which he observes. But is the ob- | | server not the same as the observed? It is the mind itself that has cre- | | ated the envy, and so the mind cannot do anything about envy. So, my | | mind observes loneliness; the thinker is aware that he is lonely But by | | remaining with it, being fully in contact, which is, not to run away | | from it, not to translate and all the rest of it, then, is there a dif- | | ference between the observer and the observed? Or is there only one s- | | tate, which is, the mind itself is lonely, empty? Not that the mind ob- | | serves itself as being empty, but mind itself is empty. Then, can the | | mind, being aware that it itself is empty, and that whatever its endeav- | | our, any movement away from that emptiness is merely an escape, a depen- | | dence, can the mind put away all dependence and be what it is, complete- | | ly empty, completely lonely? And if it is in that state, is there not | | freedom from all dependence, from all attachment? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, August 20, 2030 (232) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[19]--[19]--[18]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H A T I S A C C U M U L A T E D I S N O T T R U T H | | | | As long as there is the experiencer remembering the experience, truth is | | not. Truth is not something to be remembered, stored up, recorded, and | | then brought out. What is accumulated is not truth. The desire to expe- | | rience creates the experiencer, who then accumulates and remembers. De- | | sire makes for the separation of the thinker from his thought; the de- | | sire to become, to experience, to be more or to be less, makes for divi- | | sion between the experiencer and the experience. Awareness of the ways | | of desire is self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the beginning of medita- | | tion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, August 21, 2030 (233) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[20]--[20]--[19]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I M M E D I A T E A C T I O N | | | | If you are in contact with anything, with your wife, with your children, | | with the sky, with the clouds, with any fact, the moment thought inter- | | feres with it you lose contact. Thought springs from memory. Memory is | | the image, and from there you look and therefore there is a separation | | between the observer and the observed.You have to understand this very | | deeply. It is this separation of the observer from the observed that | | makes the observer want more experience, more sensations, and so he is | | everlastingly pursuing, seeking. It has to be completely and totally un- | | derstood that as long as there is an observer, the one that is seeking | | experience, the censor, the entity that evaluates, judges, condemns, | | there is no immediate contact with what is. When you have pain, physical | | pain, there is direct perception; there is not the observer who is feel- | | ing the pain; there is only pain. Because there is no observer there is | | immediate action. There is not the idea and then action, but there is | | only action when there is pain, because there is a direct physical con- | | tact. The pain is you; there is pain. As long as this is not completely | | understood, realized, explored and felt deeply, as long as it is not | | wholly grasped, not intellectually, not verbally, that the observer is | | the observed, all life becomes conflict, a contradiction between oppos- | | ing desires, the "what should be" and the "what is". You can do this on- | | ly if you are aware whether you are looking at it as an observer, when | | you look at a flower or a cloud or anything.. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, August 22, 2030 (234) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[21]--[21]--[20]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | R E A L I T Y I S I N W H A T I S | | | | Instead of asking who has realized or what God is why not give your w- | | hole attention and awareness to what is? Then you will find the unknown, | | or rather it will come to you. If you understand what is the known, you | | will experience that extraordinary silence which is not induced, not en- | | forced, that creative emptiness in which alone reality can enter. It | | cannot come to that which is becoming, which is striving; it can only | | come to that which is being, which understands what is. Then you will | | see that reality is not in the distance; the unknown is not far off; it | | is in what is. As the answer to a problem is in the problem, so reality | | is in what is; if we can understand it, then we shall know truth. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, August 23, 2030 (235) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[22]--[22]--[21]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F A C E T H E F A C T | | | | I'm in sorrow. Psychologically I'm terribly disturbed; and I have an | | idea about it: what I should do, what I should not do, how it should be | | changed. That idea, that formula, that concept prevents me from looking | | at the fact of what is. Ideation and the formula are escapes from what | | is. There is immediate action when there is great danger. Then you have | | no idea. You don't formulate an idea and then act according to that | | idea.The mind has become lazy, indolent through a formula which has giv- | | en it a means of escape from action with regard to what is. Seeing for | | ourselves the whole structure of what has been said, not because it has | | been pointed out to us, is it possible to face the fact: the fact that | | we are violent, as an example? We are violent human beings, and we have | | chosen violence as the way of life- war and all the rest of it. Though | | we talk everlastingly, especially in the East, of non-violence, we are | | not non-violent people; we are violent people. The idea of non-violence | | is an idea, which can be used politically. That's a different meaning, | | but it is an idea, and not a fact. Because the human being is incapable | | of meeting the fact of violence, he has invented the ideal of non-vio- | | lence, which prevents him from dealing with the fact.After all,the fact | | is that I'm violent; I'm angry. What is the need of an idea? It is not | | the idea of being angry; it's the actual fact of being angry that is im- | | portant, like the actual fact of being hungry. There's no idea about be- | | ing hungry. The idea then comes as to what you should eat, and then ac- | | cording to the dictates of pleasure, you eat. There is only action with | | regard to what is when there is no idea of what should be done about | | that which confronts you, which is what is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, August 24, 2030 (236) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[23]--[23]--[22]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F R E E D O M F R O M W H A T I S B E I N G V I R T U O U S | | | | comes through the understanding of what is, whereas becoming virtuous is | | postponement, the covering up of what is with what you would like to be. | | Therefore in becoming virtuous you are avoiding action directly upon | | what is. This process of avoiding what is through the cultivation of the | | ideal is considered virtuous; but if you look at it closely and directly | | you will see that it is nothing of the kind. It is merely a postponement | | of coming face to face with what is. Virtue is not the becoming of what | | is not; virtue is the understanding of what is and therefore the freedom | | from what is. Virtue is essential in a society that is rapidly disinte- | | grating. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, August 25, 2030 (237) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[24]--[24]--[23]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O B S E R V I N G T H O U G H T | | | | I must love the very thing I am studying. If you want to understand a | | child, you must love and not condemn him. You must play with him, watch | | his movements, his idiosyncrasies, his ways of behaviour; but if you | | merely condemn, resist or blame him, there is no comprehension of the | | child. Similarly, to understand what is, one must observe what one | | thinks, feels and does from moment to moment. That is the actual. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, August 26, 2030 (238) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[25]--[25]--[24]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | E S C A P E B R E E D S C O N F L I C T | | | | Why are we ambitious? Why do we want to succeed, to be somebody? Why do | | we struggle to be superior? Why all this effort to assert oneself, | | whether directly, or through an ideology or the State? Is not this | | self-assertion the main cause of our conflict and confusion? Without am- | | bition, would we perish? Can we not physically survive without being am- | | bitious?Why are we clever and ambitious? Is not ambition an urge to | | avoid what is? Is not this cleverness really stupid, which is what we | | are? Why are we so frightened of what is? What is the good of running | | away if whatever we are is always there? We may succeed in escaping, but | | what we are is still there, breeding conflict and misery. Why are we so | | frightened of our loneliness, or our emptiness? Any activity away from | | what is is bound to bring sorrow and antagonism. Conflict is the denial | | of what is or the running away from what is; there is no conflict other | | than that. Our conflict becomes more and more complex and insoluble be- | | cause we do not face what is. There is no complexity in what is, but on- | | ly in the many escapes that we seek. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, August 27, 2030 (239) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[26]--[26]--[25]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D I S C O N T E N T H A S N O A N S W E R | | | | What is it that we are discontented with? Surely with what is. The what | | is may be the social order, the what is may be the relationship, the | | what is may be what we are, the thing we are essentially- which is, the | | ugly, the wandering thoughts, the ambitions, the frustrations, the innu- | | merable fears; that is what we are. In going away from that, we think we | | shall find an answer to our discontent. So we are always seeking a way, | | a means to change the what is- that is what our mind is concerned with. | | If I am discontent and if I want to find a way, the means to contentmen- | | t, my mind is occupied with the means, the way and the practising of the | | way in order to arrive at contentment. So I am no longer concerned with | | discontent, with the embers, the flame that is burning, which we call | | discontent. We do not find out what is behind that discontent. We are | | only concerned with going away from that flame, from that burning anxi- | | ety.This is enormously difficult because our mind is never satisfied, | | never content in the examination of what is. It always wants to trans- | | form what is into something else- which is the process of condemnation, | | justification or comparison. If you observe your own mind you will see | | that when it comes face to face with what is, then it condemns, then it | | compares it with "what it should be," or it justifies it and so on, and | | thereby pushes away what is, setting aside the thing which is causing | | the disturbance, the pain, the anxiety. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, August 28, 2030 (240) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[27]--[27]--[26]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | E F F O R T I S D I S T R A C T I O N F R O M W H A T I S | | | | We must understand the problem of striving. If we can understand the | | significance of effort, then we can translate it into action in our dai- | | ly life. Does not effort mean a struggle to change what is into what it | | is not, or what it should be, or what it should become? We are constant- | | ly escaping from what is, to transform or modify it. He who is truly | | content is he who understands what is, who gives the right significance | | to what is . True contentment lies not in few or many possessions, but | | in understanding the whole significance of what is. Only in passive | | awareness is the meaning of what is understood. I am not, at the moment, | | talking of the physical struggle with the earth, with construction or a | | technical problem, but of psychological striving. The psychological | | struggles and problems always overshadow the physiological. You may | | build a careful social structure, but as long as the psychological dark- | | ness and strife are not understood, they invariably overturn the care- | | fully built structure.Effort is distraction from what is. In the accep- | | tance of what is, striving ceases. There is no acceptance when there is | | the desire to transform or modify what is. Striving, an indication of | | destruction, must exist so long as there is a desire to change what is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, August 29, 2030 (241) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[28]--[28]--[27]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A C O N T E N T M E N T N O T O F T H E M I N D | | | | Is not discontent essential, not to be smothered away, but to be encour- | | aged, inquired into, probed, so that with the understanding of what is | | there comes contentment? That contentment is not the contentment which | | is produced by a system of thought; but it is that contentment which | | comes with the understanding of what is. That contentment is not the | | product of the mind- the mind which is disturbed, agitated, incomplete, | | when it is seeking peace, when it is seeking a way away from what is . | | And so the mind, through justification, comparison, judgement, tries to | | alter what is, and thereby hopes to arrive at a state when it will not | | be disturbed, when it will be peaceful, when there will be quietness. | | And when the mind is disturbed by social conditions, by poverty, starva- | | tion, degradation, by the appalling misery, seeing all that, it wants to | | alter it; it gets entangled in the way of altering, in the system of al- | | tering. But if the mind is capable of looking at what is without compar- | | ison, without judgement, without the desire to alter it into something | | else, then you will see that there comes a kind of contentment which is | | not of the mind.The contentment which is the product of the mind is an | | escape. It is sterile. It is dead. But there is contentment which is not | | of the mind, which comes into being when there is the understanding of | | what is, in which there is profound revolution which affects society and | | individual relationship. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, August 30, 2030 (242) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[29]--[29]--[28]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | K E E P D I S C O N T E N T A L I V E | | | | Is not discontent essential in our life, to any question, to any in- | | quiry, to probing, to finding out what is the real, what is Truth, what | | is essential in life? I may have this flaming discontent in college; and | | then I get a good job and this discontent vanishes. I am satisfied, I | | struggle to maintain my family, I have to earn a livelihood and so my | | discontent is calmed, destroyed, and I become a mediocre entity satis- | | fied with things of life, and I am not discontent. But the flame has to | | be maintained from the beginning to the end, so that there is true in- | | quiry, true probing into the problem of what discontent is. Because the | | mind seeks very easily a drug to make it content with virtues, with | | qualities, with ideas, with actions, it establishes a routine and gets | | caught up in it. We are quite familiar with that, but our problem is not | | how to calm discontent, but how to keep it smoldering, alive, vital. All | | our religious books, all our gurus, all political systems pacify the | | mind, quieten the mind, influence the mind to subside, to put aside dis- | | content and wallow in some form of contentment....Is it not essential to | | be discontented in order to find what is true? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, August 31, 2030 (243) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | SEP/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[30]--[30]--[29]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O U N D E R S T A N D W H A T I S | | | | We are in conflict with each other and our world is being destroyed. | | There is crisis after crisis, war after war; there is starvation, mis- | | ery; there are the enormously rich clothed in their respectability, and | | there are the poor. To solve these problems, what is necessary is not a | | new system of thought, not a new economic revolution, but to understand | | what is- the discontent, the constant probing of what is- which will | | bring about a revolution which is more far-reaching than the revolution | | of ideas. And it is this revolution that is so necessary to bring about | | a different culture, a different religion, a different relationship be- | | tween man and man. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ S-E-P-T-E-M-B-E-R 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 28[☺] 05[◑] [☻] 19[☽] | 01 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 __[♍VIRGO]__/ 16 17 18 19 20[21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 / [♎LIBRA] Monthly Goals: Sunday, September 01, 2030 (244) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ +---[01]--[31]--[30]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W E T H I N K W E A R E I N T E L L E C T U A L | | | | Most of us have developed intellectual capacities-so-called intellectual | | capacities, which are not really intellectual capacities at all-we read | | so many books, filled with what other people have said, their many theo- | | ries and ideas. We think we are very intellectual if we can quote innu- | | merable books by innumerable authors, if we have read many different va- | | rieties of books, and have the capacity to correlate and to explain. But | | none of us, or very few, have original, intellectual conception. Having | | cultivated the intellect-so-called-every other capacity, every other | | feeling, has been lost and we have the problem of how to bring about a | | balance in our lives so as to have not only the highest intellectual ca- | | pacity and be able to reason objectively, to see things exactly as they | | are-not to endlessly to offer opinions about theories and codes, but to | | think for ourselves, to see for ourselves very closely the false and the | | true. And this, it seems to me, is one of our difficulties: the incapac- | | ity to see, not only outward things, but also such inward life that one | | has, if one has any at all. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, September 02, 2030 (245) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ DEC/ +---[02]--[01]--[01]--[31] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A L L T H O U G H T I S D I S T R A C T I O N | | | | A mind which is competitive, held in the conflict of becoming, thinking | | in terms of comparison, is not capable of discovering the real. | | Thought-feeling which is intensely aware is in the process of constant | | self-discovery-which discovery, being true, is liberating and creative. | | Such self-discovery brings about freedom from acquisitiveness and from | | the complex life of the intellect. It is this complex life of the intel- | | lect that finds gratification in addictions: destructive curiosity, | | speculation, mere knowledge, capacity, gossip and so on; and these hin- | | drances prevent simplicity of life. An addiction, a specialization gives | | sharpness to the mind, a means of focusing thought, but it is not the | | flowering of thought-feeling into reality.The freedom from distraction | | is more difficult as we do not fully understand the process of think- | | ing-feeling which in itself has become the means of distraction. Being | | ever incomplete, capable of speculative curiosity and formulation, it | | has the power to create its own hindrances, illusions, which prevent the | | awareness of the real. So it becomes its own distraction, its own enemy. | | As the mind is capable of creating illusion, this power must be under- | | stood before it can be wholly free from its own self-created distrac- | | tions. Mind must be utterly still, silent, for all thought becomes a | | distraction. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, September 03, 2030 (246) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[03]--[02]--[02]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | U N I T Y O F M I N D A N D H E A R T | | | | Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Rather, intelli- | | gence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellec- | | tually and emotionally. There is a vast distinction between intellect | | and intelligence. Intellect is merely thought functioning independently | | of emotion. When intellect, irrespective of emotion, is trained in any | | particular direction, one may have great intellect, but one does not | | have intelligence, because in intelligence there is the inherent capaci- | | ty to feel as well as to reason; in intelligence both capacities are e- | | qually present, intensely and harmoniously.Now modern education is de- | | veloping the intellect, offering more and more explanations of life, | | more and more theories, without the harmonious quality of affection. | | Therefore we have developed cunning minds to escape from conflict; hence | | we are satisfied with explanations that scientists and philosophers give | | us. The mind-the intellect-is satisfied with these innumerable explana- | | tions, but intelligence is not, for to understand there must be complete | | unity of mind and heart in action. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, September 04, 2030 (247) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[04]--[03]--[03]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I N T E L L E C T C O R R U P T S F E E L I N G | | | | You know,there is the intellect, and there is pure feeling- the pure | | feeling of loving something, of having great, generous emotions. The in- | | tellect reasons, calculates, weighs, balances. It asks, "Is it worth- | | while? Will it give me benefit?" On the other hand, there is pure feel- | | ing- the extraordinary feeling for the sky, for your neighbour, for your | | wife or husband, for your child, for the world, for the beauty of a | | tree, and so on. When these two come together, there is death. Do you | | understand? When pure feeling is corrupted by the intellect, there is | | mediocrity. That is what most of us are doing. Our lives are mediocre | | because we are always calculating, asking ourselves whether it is worth- | | while, what profit we will get, not only in the world of money, but also | | in the so-called spiritual world-"If I do this, will I get that?" | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, September 05, 2030 (248) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[05]--[04]--[04]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | INTELLECT WILL NOT SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS | | | | Most of us are so unconcerned with this extraordinary universe about us; | | we never even see the waving of the leaf in the wind; we never watch a | | blade of grass, touch it with our hand and know the quality of its be- | | ing. This is not just being poetic, so please do not go off into a spec- | | ulative, emotional state. I say it is essential to have that deep feel- | | ing for life and not be caught in intellectual ramifications, discus- | | sions, passing examinations, quoting and brushing something new aside by | | saying it has already been said. Intellect is not the way. Intellect | | will not solve our problems; the intellect will not give us that nour- | | ishment which is imperishable. The intellect can reason, discuss, analy- | | se, come to a conclusion from inferences, and so on, but intellect is | | limited, for intellect is the result of our conditioning. But sensitivi- | | ty is not. Sensitivity has no conditioning; it takes you right out of | | the field of fears and anxieties. The mind that is not sensitive to ev- | | erything about it-to the mountain, the telegraph pole, the lamp, the | | voice, the smile, everything-is incapable of finding what is true.But we | | spend our days and years in cultivating the intellect, in arguing, dis- | | cussing, fighting, struggling to be something, and so on. And yet this | | extraordinarily wonderful world, this earth that is so rich-not the Bom- | | bay earth, the Punjab earth, the Russian earth or the American | | earth-this earth is ours, yours and mine, and that is not sentimental | | nonsense; it is a fact. But unfortunately we have divided it up through | | our pettiness, through our provincialism. And we know why we have done | | it-for our security, for better jobs and more jobs. That is the politi- | | cal game that is being played throughout the world, and so we forget to | | be human beings, to live happily on this earth which is ours and to make | | something of it. it is simple. We seek happiness in property, in family, | | in name; then property, family, idea become all-important, for then hap- | | piness is sought through a means, and then the means destroys the end. | | Can happiness be found through any means, through anything made by the | | hand or by the mind? Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparent- | | ly impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, September 06, 2030 (249) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[06]--[05]--[05]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E F L A S H O F U N D E R S T A N D I N G | | | | I do not know if you have noticed that there is understanding when the | | mind is very quiet, even for a second; there is the flash of understand- | | ing when the verbalization of thought is not. Just experiment with it | | and you will see for yourself that you have the flash of understanding, | | that extraordinary rapidity of insight, when the mind is very still, | | when thought is absent, when the mind is not burdened with its own | | noise. So, the understanding of anything-of a modern picture, of a | | child, of your wife, of your neighbour, or the understanding of truth | | which is in all things-can only come when the mind is very still. But | | such stillness can not be cultivated because if you cultivate a still | | mind, it is not a still mind, it is a dead mind.The more you are inter- | | ested in something, the more your intention to understand, the more sim- | | ple, clear, free the mind is. Then verbalization ceases. After all, | | thought is word, and it is the word that interferes. It is the screen of | | words, which is memory, that intervenes between the challenge and the | | response. It is the word that is responding to the challenge, which we | | call intellection. So, the mind that is chattering, that is verbalizing, | | cannot understand truth-truth in relationship, not an abstract truth. | | There is no abstract truth. But truth is very subtle. It is the subtle | | that is difficult to follow. It is not abstract. It comes so swiftly, so | | darkly, it cannot be held by the mind. Like a thief in the night, it | | comes darkly, not when you are prepared to receive it. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, September 07, 2030 (250) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[07]--[06]--[06]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E U N G U A R D E D I N T E L L E C T | | | | You can know yourself only when you are unaware, when you are not calcu- | | lating, not protecting, not constantly watching to guide, to transform, | | to subdue, to control; when you see yourself unexpectedly, that is, when | | the mind has no preconceptions with regard to itself, when the mind is | | open, unprepared to meet the unknown.If your mind is prepared, surely | | you cannot know the unknown, for you are the unknown. If you say to y- | | ourself, "I am God", or "I am nothing but a mass of social influences or | | a bundle of qualities" - if you have any preconception of yourself, you | | cannot comprehend the unknown, that which is spontaneous.So spontaneity | | can come only when the intellect is unguarded, when it is not protecting | | itself, when it is no longer afraid for itself; and this can happen only | | from within. That is, the spontaneous must be the new, the unknown, the | | incalculable, the creative, that which must be expressed, loved, in | | which the will as the process of intellect, controlling, directing, has | | no part. Observe your own emotional states and you will see that the mo- | | ments of great joy, great ecstasy, are unpremeditated; they happen, mys- | | teriously, darkly, unknowingly. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, September 08, 2030 (251) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[08]--[07]--[07]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M E M O R Y H A S N O L I F E I N I T S E L F | | | | What do we mean by thought? When do you think? Obviously, thought is the | | result of a response, neurological or psychological, is it not? It is | | the immediate response of the senses to a sensation, or it is psycholog- | | ical, the response of stored-up memory. There is the immediate response | | of the nerves to a sensation, and there is the psychological response of | | stored-up memory, the influence of race, group, guru, family, tradition, | | and so on-all of which you call thought. So, the thought process is the | | response of memory, is it not? You would have no thoughts if you had no | | memory, and the response of memory to a certain experience brings the | | thought process into action.What, then, is memory? If you observe your | | own memory and how you gather memory, you will notice that it is either | | factual, technical, having to do with information, with engineering, | | mathematics, physics, and all the rest of it-or, it is the residue of an | | unfinished, uncompleted experience, is it not? Watch your own memory and | | you will see. When you finish an experience, complete it, there is no | | memory of that experience in the sense of a psychological residue. There | | is a residue only when an experience is not fully understood, and there | | is no understanding of experience because we look at each experience | | through past memories, and therefore we never meet the new as the new, | | but always through the screen of the old. Therefore, it is clear that | | our response to experience is conditioned, always limited. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, September 09, 2030 (252) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[09]--[08]--[08]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C O N S C I O U S N E S S I S O F T H E P A S T | | | | If you watch very carefully you will see that it is not a constant but | | that there is an interval between two thoughts; though it may be but an | | infinitesimal fraction of a second, there is an interval that has sig- | | nificance in the swinging backwards and forwards of the pendulum. We see | | the fact that our thinking is conditioned by the past which is projected | | into the future; the moment you admit the past, you must also admit the | | future, because there are not two such states as the past and the future | | but one state which includes both the conscious and the unconscious, | | both the collective past and the individual past. The collective and the | | individual past, in response to the present, give out certain responses | | which create the individual consciousness; therefore consciousness is of | | the past and that is the whole background of our existence. The moment | | you have the past, you inevitably have the future, because the future is | | merely the continuity of the modified past but it is still the past, so | | our problem is how to bring about a transformation in this process of | | the past without creating another conditioning, another past. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, September 10, 2030 (253) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[10]--[09]--[09]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H Y I S O N E T H O U G H T L E S S ? | | | | The thinker thinks his thoughts through habit, through repetition, | | through copying, which brings ignorance and sorrow. Is not habit | | thoughtlessness? Awareness creates order, but it never creates habit. | | Settled tendencies only bring about thoughtlessness. Why is one thought- | | less? Because to think is painful, it creates disturbances, it brings | | opposition, it may cause one's actions to go contrary to the established | | pattern. To think-feel extensionally, to become choicelessly aware may | | lead to unknown depths, and the mind rebels against the unknown; so it | | moves from the known to the known, from habit to habit, from pattern to | | pattern. Such a mind never abandons the known to discover the unknown. | | Realizing the pain of thought, the thinker becomes thoughtless through | | copying, through habit; being afraid to think, he creates patterns of | | thoughtlessness. As the thinker is afraid, his actions are born of fear, | | and then he regards his actions and tries to change them. The thinker is | | afraid of his own creations; but the deed is the doer, so the thinker is | | afraid of himself. The thinker is fear itself; the thinker is the cause | | of ignorance, of sorrow. The thinker may divide himself into many cate- | | gories of thought, but the thought is still the thinker. The thinker and | | his efforts to be, to become, are the very cause of conflict and confu- | | sion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, September 11, 2030 (254) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[11]--[10]--[10]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E T H I N K E R I S T H E T H O U G H T | | | | Is it not necessary to understand the thinker, the doer, the actor, s- | | ince his thought, his deed, his action cannot be separated from him? The | | thinker is the thought, the doer is the deed, the actor is the action. | | In his thought the thinker is revealed. The thinker through his actions | | creates his own misery, his ignorance, his strife. The painter paints | | this picture of passing happiness, of sorrow, of confusion. Why does he | | produce this painful picture? Surely, this is the problem that must be | | studied, understood and dissolved. Why does the thinker think his | | thoughts, from which flow all his actions? This is the rock wall against | | which you have been battering your head, is it not? If the thinker can | | transcend himself, then all conflict will cease: and to transcend he | | must know himself. What is known and understood, what is fulfilled and | | completed does not repeat itself. It is repetition that gives continuity | | to the thinker. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, September 12, 2030 (255) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[12]--[11]--[11]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E R E I S N O F R E E D O M O F T H O U G H T | | | | I do not know if it is clear to each one of us that we live in a state | | of contradiction. We talk about peace, and prepare for war. We talk | | about non-violence, and are fundamentally violent. We talk about being | | good, and we are not. We talk about love, and we are full of ambition, | | competitiveness, ruthless efficiency. So there is contradiction. The ac- | | tion which springs from that contradiction only brings about frustration | | and further contradiction.You see, sirs, all thought is partial, it can | | never be total. Thought is the response of memory, and memory is always | | partial, because memory is the result of experience, so thought is the | | reaction of a mind which is conditioned by experience. All thinking, all | | experience, all knowledge is inevitably partial; therefore, thought can- | | not solve the many problems that we have. You may try to reason logical- | | ly, sanely, about these many problems, but if you observe your own mind | | you will see that your thinking is conditioned by your circumstances, by | | the culture in which you were born, by the food you eat, by the climate | | you live in, by the newspapers you read, by the pressures and influences | | of your daily life.So we must understand very clearly that our thinking | | is the response of memory, and memory is mechanistic. Knowledge is ever | | incomplete, and all thinking born of knowledge is limited, partial, nev- | | er free. So there is no freedom of thought. But we can begin to discover | | a freedom which is not a process of thought, and in which the mind is | | simply aware of all its conflicts and of all the influences impinging | | upon it. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, September 13, 2030 (256) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[13]--[12]--[12]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H I N K I N G W I T H O U T T H E T H I N K E R | | | | The monkey in the tree feels hungry, and then the urge arises to take a | | fruit or a nut. Action comes first, and then the idea that you had bet- | | ter store it up. To put it in different words, does action come first, | | or the actor? Is there an actor without action? Do you understand? This | | is what we are always asking ourselves: Who is it that sees? Who is the | | watcher? Is the thinker apart from his thoughts, the observer apart from | | the observed, the experiencer apart from the experience, the actor apart | | from the action? But if you really examine the process, very carefully, | | closely and intelligently, you will see that there is always action | | first, and that action with an end in view creates the actor. Do you | | follow? If action has an end in view, the gaining of that end brings | | about the actor. If you think very clearly and without prejudice, with- | | out conformity, without trying to convince somebody, without an end in | | view, in that very thinking there is no thinker-there is only the think- | | ing. It is only when you seek an end in your thinking that you become | | important, and not thought. Perhaps some of you have observed this. It | | is really an important thing to find out, because from that we shall | | know how to act. If the thinker comes first, then the thinker is more | | important than thought, and all the philosophies, customs and activities | | of the present civilization are based on this assumption; but if thought | | comes first then thought is more important than the thinker. So a mind | | that is concerned with the comprehension of what is compassion, love, | | and all the rest of it must surely understand what is fear and what is | | sorrow. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, September 14, 2030 (257) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[14]--[13]--[13]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I M M E D I A T E P E R C E P T I O N | | | | To me there is only perception, which is to see something as false or | | true immediately. This immediate perception of what is false and what is | | true is the essential factor-not the intellect, with its reasoning based | | upon its cunning, its knowledge, its commitments. It must sometimes have | | happened to you that you have seen the truth of something immediately-- | | such as the truth that you cannot belong to anything. That is percep- | | tion: seeing the truth of something immediately, without analysis, with- | | out reasoning, without all the things that the intellect creates in | | order to postpone perception. It is entirely different from intuition, | | which is a word that we use with glibness and ease. To me there is only | | this direct perception-not reasoning, not calculation, not analysis. You | | must have the capacity to analyse; you must have a good, sharp mind in | | order to reason; but a mind that is limited to reason and analysis is | | incapable of perceiving what is truth.If you commune with yourself, you | | will know why you belong, why you have committed yourself; and if you | | push further, you will see the slavery, the cutting down of freedom, the | | lack of human dignity which that commitment entails. When you perceive | | all this instantaneously, you are free; you don't have to make an effort | | to be free. That is why perception is essential. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, September 15, 2030 (258) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[15]--[14]--[14]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M O M E N T - T O - M O M E N T U N D E R S T A N D I N G | | | | The fundamental understanding of oneself does not come through knowledge | | or through the accumulation of experiences, which is merely the cultiva- | | tion of memory. The understanding of oneself is from moment to moment; | | if we merely accumulate knowledge of the self, that very knowledge pre- | | vents further understanding, because accumulated knowledge and experi- | | ence become the centre through which thought focuses and has its being. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, September 16, 2030 (259) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[16]--[15]--[15]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF YOUR THINKING | | | | Suppose you had never read a book, religious or psychological, and you | | had to find the meaning, the significance of life. How would you set | | about it? Suppose there were no Masters, no religious organizations, no | | Buddha, no Christ, and you had to begin from the beginning. How would | | you set about it? First, you would have to understand your process of | | thinking, would you not?-and not project yourself, your thoughts, into | | the future and create a God who pleases you; that would be too childish. | | So first you would have to understand the process of your thinking. That | | is the only way to discover anything new, is it not?When we say that | | learning or knowledge is an impediment, a hindrance, we are not includ- | | ing technical knowledge-how to drive a car, how to run machinery-or the | | efficiency which such knowledge brings. We have in mind quite a differ- | | ent thing: that sense of creative happiness which no amount of knowledge | | or learning will bring. To be creative in the truest sense of that word | | is to be free of the past from moment to moment, because it is the past | | that is continually shadowing the present. Merely to cling to informa- | | tion, to the experiences of others, to what someone has said, however | | great, and try to approximate your action to that-all that is knowledge, | | is it not? But to discover anything new you must start on your own; you | | must start on a journey completely denuded, especially of knowledge, be- | | cause it is very easy, through knowledge and belief, to have experi- | | ences; but these experiences are merely the products of self-projection | | and therefore utterly unreal, false. Very deeply, not just brush it | | aside, then what is involved? Why is one angry? Because one is hurt, | | someone has said an unkind thing; and when someone says a flattering | | thing you are pleased. Why are you hurt? Self-importance, is it not? And | | why is there self-importance?Because one has an idea, a symbol of one- | | self, an image of oneself, what one should be, what one is or what one | | should not be. Why does one create an image about oneself? Because one | | has never studied what one is, actually. We think we should be this or | | that, the ideal, the hero, the example. What awakens anger is that our | | ideal, the idea we have of ourselves, is attacked. And our idea about | | ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we are. But when you are | | observing the actual fact of what you are, no one can hurt you. Then, if | | one is a liar and is told that one is a liar it does not mean that one | | is hurt; it is a fact. But when you are pretending you are not a liar | | and are told that you are, then you get angry, violent. So we are always | | living in an ideational world, a world of myth and never in the world of | | actuality. To observe what is, to see it, actually be familiar with it, | | there must be no judgement, no evaluation, no opinion, no fear. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, September 17, 2030 (260) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[17]--[16]--[16]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | K N O W L E D G E I S N O T W I S D O M | | | | In our search for knowledge, in our acquisitive desires, we are losing | | love, we are blunting the feeling for beauty, the sensitivity to cruel- | | ty; we are becoming more and more specialized and less and less inte- | | grated. Wisdom cannot be replaced by knowledge, and no amount of expla- | | nation, no accumulation of facts, will free man from suffering. Knowl- | | edge is necessary, science has its place; but if the mind and heart are | | suffocated by knowledge, and if the cause of suffering is explained | | away, life becomes vain and meaningless.Information, the knowledge of | | facts, though ever increasing, is by its very nature limited. Wisdom is | | infinite, it includes knowledge and the way of action; but we take hold | | of a branch and think it is the whole tree. Through the knowledge of the | | part, we can never realize the joy of the whole. Intellect can never | | lead to the whole, for it is only a segment, a part.We have separated | | intellect from feeling, and have developed intellect at the expense of | | feeling. We are like a three-legged object with one leg much longer than | | the others, and we have no balance. We are trained to be intellectual; | | our education cultivates the intellect to be sharp, cunning, acquisi- | | tive, and so it plays the most important role in our life. Intelligence | | is much greater than intellect, for it is the integration of reason and | | love; but there can be intelligence only when there is self-knowledge, | | the deep understanding of the total process of oneself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, September 18, 2030 (261) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[18]--[17]--[17]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E F U N C T I O N O F T H E I N T E L L E C T | | | | I do not know if you have considered the nature of the intellect. The | | intellect and its activities are all right at a certain level, are they | | not? But when the intellect interferes with that pure feeling, then me- | | diocrity sets in. To know the function of the intellect, and to be aware | | of that pure feeling, without letting the two mingle and destroy each | | other, requires a very clear, sharp awareness.So the function of the in- | | tellect is always, is it not, to inquire, to analyse, to search out; but | | because we want to be secure inwardly, psychologically, because we are | | afraid, anxious about life, we come to some form of conclusion to which | | we are committed. From one commitment we proceed to another, and I say | | that such a mind, such an intellect, being slave to a conclusion, has | | ceased to think, to inquire. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, September 19, 2030 (262) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[19]--[18]--[18]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E A N O U T S I D E R | | | | I do not know if you have observed what an enormous part the intellect | | plays in our life. The newspapers, the magazines, everything about us is | | cultivating reason. Not that I am against reason. On the contrary, one | | must have the capacity to reason very clearly, sharply. But if you ob- | | serve you find that the intellect is everlastingly analysing why we be- | | long or do not belong, why one must be an outsider to find reality, and | | so on. We have learned the process of analysing ourselves. So there is | | the intellect with its capacity to inquire, to analyse, to reason and | | come to conclusions; and there is feeling, pure feeling, which is always | | being interrupted, coloured by the intellect. And when the intellect in- | | terferes with pure feeling, out of this interference grows a mediocre | | mind. On the one hand we have intellect, with its capacity to reason | | based upon its likes and dislikes, upon its conditioning, upon its expe- | | rience and knowledge; and on the other, we have feeling, which is cor- | | rupted by society, by fear. And will these two reveal what is true? Or | | is there only perception, and nothing else? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, September 20, 2030 (263) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[20]--[19]--[19]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A M I N D T H A T I S L E A R N I N G | | | | What do we mean by learning? Is there learning when you are merely accu- | | mulating knowledge, gathering information? That is one kind of learning, | | is it not? As a student of engineering, you study mathematics, and so | | on; you are learning, informing yourself about the subject. You are ac- | | cumulating knowledge in order to use that knowledge in practical ways. | | Your learning is accumulative, additive. Now, when the mind is merely | | taking on, adding, acquiring, is it learning? Or is learning something | | entirely different? I say the additive process which we now call learn- | | ing is not learning at all. It is merely a cultivation of memory, which | | becomes mechanical; and a mind which functions mechanically, like a ma- | | chine, is not capable of learning. A machine is never capable of learn- | | ing, except in the additive sense. Learning is something quite differen- | | t, as I shall try to show you.A mind that is learning never says, "I | | know", because knowledge is always partial, whereas learning is complete | | all the time. Learning does not mean starting with a certain amount of | | knowledge, and adding to it further knowledge. That is not learning at | | all; it is a purely mechanistic process. To me, learning is something | | entirely different. I am learning about myself from moment to moment, | | and the myself is extraordinarily vital; it is living, moving; it has no | | beginning and no end. When I say, "I know myself", learning has come to | | an end in accumulated knowledge. Learning is never cumulative; it is a | | movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, September 21, 2030 (264) (September Equinox ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[21]--[20]--[20]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | K N O W L E D G E A S S U M E S A U T H O R I T Y | | | | There is no movement of learning when there is the acquisition of knowl- | | edge; the two are incompatible, they are contradictory. The movement of | | learning implies a state in which the mind has no previous experience | | stored up as knowledge. Knowledge is acquired, whereas learning is a | | constant movement which is not an additive or acquisitive process; | | therefore, the movement of learning implies a state in which the mind | | has no authority. All knowledge assumes authority, and a mind that is | | entrenched in the authority of knowledge cannot possibly learn. The mind | | can learn only when the additive process has completely ceased.It is | | rather difficult for most of us to differentiate between learning and | | acquiring knowledge. Through experience, through reading, through lis- | | tening, the mind accumulates knowledge; it is an acquisitive process, a | | process of adding to what is already known, and from this background of | | knowledge we function. Now, what we generally call learning is this very | | same process of acquiring new information and adding it to the store of | | knowledge we already have. But I am talking about something entirely d- | | ifferent. By learning I do not mean adding to what you already know. You | | can learn only when there is no attachment to the past as knowledge, | | that is, when you see something new and do not translate it in terms of | | the known.The mind that is learning is an innocent mind, whereas the | | mind that is merely acquiring knowledge is old, stagnant, corrupted by | | the past. An innocent mind perceives instantly, it is learning all the | | time without accumulating, and such a mind alone is mature. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, September 22, 2030 (265) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[22]--[21]--[21]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E B R A I N P R O D U C E S T H E M I N D | | | | What is the mind? When I put that question, please don't wait for a re- | | ply from me. Look at your own mind; observe the ways of your own | | thought. What I describe is only an indication; it is not the reality. | | The reality you must experience for yourself. The word, the description, | | the symbol, is not the actual thing. The word door is obviously not the | | door. The word love is not the feeling, the extraordinary quality that | | the word indicates. So do not let us confuse the word, the name, the | | symbol, with the fact. If you merely remain on the verbal level and dis- | | cuss what the mind is, you are lost, for then you will never feel the | | quality of this astonishing thing called the mind.So, what is the mind? | | Obviously, the mind is our total awareness or consciousness; it is the | | total way of our existence, the whole process of our thinking. The mind | | is the result of the brain. The brain produces the mind. Without the | | brain there is no mind, but the mind is separate from the brain. It is | | the child of the brain. If the brain is limited, damaged, the mind is | | also damaged. The brain, which records every sensation, every feeling of | | pleasure or pain, the brain with all its tissues, with all its respons- | | es, creates what we call the mind, although the mind is independent of | | the brain.You don't have to accept this. You can experiment with it and | | see for yourself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, September 23, 2030 (266) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[23]--[22]--[22]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E A N C H O R E D M I N D | | | | We carry on like machines with our tiresome daily routine. How eagerly | | the mind accepts a pattern of existence, and how tenaciously it clings | | to it! As by a driven nail, the mind is held together by idea, and | | around the idea it lives and has its being. The mind is never free, pli- | | able, for it is always anchored; it moves within the radius, narrow or | | wide, of its own centre. From its centre it dare not wander; and when it | | does, it is lost in fear. Fear is not of the unknown, but of the loss of | | the known. The unknown does not incite fear, but dependence on the known | | does. Fear is always with desire, the desire for the more or for the | | less. The mind, with its incessant weaving of patterns, is the maker of | | time; and with time there is fear, hope and death. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, September 24, 2030 (267) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[24]--[23]--[23]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E M I N D I S T H E R E S U L T O F T I M E | | | | The mind is being influenced all the time to think along a certain line. | | It used to be that only the organized religions were after your mind, | | but now governments have largely taken over that job. They want to shape | | and control your mind. On the surface the mind can resist their control. | | Superficially you have some say in the matter, but below the surface, in | | the deep unconscious, there is the whole weight of time, of tradition, | | urging you in a particular direction. The conscious mind may to some ex- | | tent control and guide itself, but in the unconscious your ambitions, | | your unsolved problems, your compulsions, superstitions, fears, are | | waiting, throbbing, urging.This whole field of the mind is the result of | | time; it is the result of conflicts and adjustments, of a whole series | | of acceptances without full comprehension. Therefore we live in a state | | of contradiction; our life is a process of endless struggle. We are un- | | happy, and we want to be happy. Being violent, we practice the ideal of | | non-violence. So there is a conflict going on-the mind is a battlefield. | | We want to be secure, knowing inwardly, deeply, that there is no such | | thing as security at all. The truth is that we do not want to face the | | fact that there is no security; therefore, we are always pursuing secu- | | rity, with the resultant fear of not being secure. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, September 25, 2030 (268) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[25]--[24]--[24]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I V I N G I S T H E G R E A T E S T R E V O L U T I O N | | | | Mind is held in a pattern; its very existence is the frame within which | | it works and moves. The pattern is of the past or the future, it is de- | | spair and hope, confusion and Utopia, the what has been and the what | | should be. With this we are all familiar. You want to break the old pat- | | tern and substitute a "new" one, the new being the modified old. You | | want to produce a new world. It is impossible. You may deceive yourself | | and others, but unless the old pattern is broken completely there cannot | | be a radical transformation. You may play around with it, but you are | | not the hope of the world. The breaking of the pattern, both the old and | | the so-called new, is of the utmost importance if order is to come out | | of this chaos. That is why it is essential to understand the ways of the | | mind.Is it possible for the mind to be without a pattern, to be free of | | this backward and forward swing of desire? It is definitely possible. | | Such action is living in the now. To live is to be without hope, without | | the care of tomorrow; it is not hopelessness or indifference. But we are | | not living, we are always pursuing death, the past or the future. Living | | is the greatest revolution. Living has no pattern, but death has: the | | past or the future, the what has been or the Utopia. You are living for | | the Utopia, and so you are inviting death and not life. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, September 26, 2030 (269) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[26]--[25]--[25]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I N W A R D R E V O L U T I O N | | | | What is true can only be found from moment to moment, it is not a conti- | | nuity, but the mind which wants to discover it, being itself the product | | of time, can only function in the field of time; therefore it is inca- | | pable of finding what is true.To know the mind, the mind must know it- | | self, for there is no "I" apart from the mind. There are no qualities | | separate from the mind, just as the qualities of the diamond are not | | separate from the diamond itself. To understand the mind you cannot in- | | terpret it according to somebody else's idea, but you must observe how | | your own total mind works. When you know the whole process of it-how it | | reasons, its desires, motives, ambitions, pursuits, its envy, greed and | | fear, then the mind can go beyond itself, and when it does there is the | | discovery of something totally new. That quality of newness gives an ex- | | traordinary passion, a tremendous enthusiasm which brings about a deep | | inward revolution: and it is this inward revolution which alone can | | transform the world, not any political or economic system. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, September 27, 2030 (270) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[27]--[26]--[26]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E R E I S O N L Y C O N S C I O U S N E S S | | | | There is in fact only one state, not two states such as the conscious | | and the unconscious; there is only a state of being, which is conscious- | | ness, though you may divide it as the conscious and the unconscious. But | | that consciousness is always of the past, never of the present; you are | | conscious only of things that are over. You are conscious of what I am | | trying to convey the second afterwards, are you not? You understand it a | | moment later. You are never conscious or aware of the now. Watch your | | own hearts and minds and you will see that consciousness is functioning | | between the past and the future and that the present is merely a passage | | of the past to the future. Consciousness is therefore a movement of the | | past to the future.If you watch your own mind at work, you will see that | | the movement to the past and to the future is a process in which the p- | | resent is not. Either the past is a means of escape from the present, | | which may be unpleasant, or the future is a hope away from the present. | | So the mind is occupied with the past or with the future and sloughs off | | the present. It either condemns and rejects the fact or accepts and i- | | dentifies itself with the fact. Such a mind is obviously not capable of | | seeing any fact as a fact. That is our state of consciousness which is | | conditioned by the past and our thought is the conditioned response to | | the challenge of a fact; the more you respond according to the condi- | | tioning of belief, of the past, the more there is strengthening of the | | past. That strengthening of the past is obviously the continuity of it- | | self, which it calls the future. So that is the state of our mind, of | | our consciousness-a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards between the | | past and the future. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, September 28, 2030 (271) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[28]--[27]--[27]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E Y O N D T I M E | | | | The conditioned mind, surely is incapable of finding out what lies be- | | yond time. That is, sirs, the mind as we know it is conditioned by the | | past. The past, moving through the present to the future, conditions the | | mind; and this conditioned mind, being in conflict, in trouble, being | | fearful, uncertain, seeks something beyond the frontiers of time. That | | is what we are all doing in various ways, is it not? But how can a mind | | which is the result of time ever find that which is timeless?The house | | of your beliefs, of your properties, of your attachments and comforting | | ways of thinking is constantly being broken into. But the mind goes on | | seeking security, so there is a conflict between what you want and what | | life's process demands of you. This is what is happening to every one of | | us.I do not know if this problem interests you at all. Everyday exis- | | tence, with all its troubles, seems to be sufficient for most of us. Our | | only concern is to find an immediate answer to our various problems. But | | sooner or later the immediate answers are found to be unsatisfactory be- | | cause no problem has an answer apart from the problem itself. But if I | | can understand the problem, all the intricacies of it, then the problem | | no longer exists. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, September 29, 2030 (272) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[29]--[28]--[28]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A MIND WITH PROBLEMS IS NOT A SERIOUS MIND | | | | One of the principal questions which one has to put to oneself is this: | | how far or to what depth can the mind penetrate into itself? That is the | | quality of seriousness because it implies awareness of the whole struc- | | ture of one's own psychological being, with its urges, its compulsions, | | its desire to fulfil and its frustrations, its miseries, strains and | | anxieties, its struggles, sorrows, and the innumerable problems that it | | has. The mind that perpetually has problems is not a serious mind at al- | | l, but the mind that understands each problem as it arises and dissolves | | it immediately so that it is not carried over to the next day-such a | | mind is serious.What are most of us interested in? If we have money, we | | turn to so-called spiritual things, or to intellectual amusements, or we | | discuss art, or take up painting to express ourselves. If we have no | | money, our time is taken up day after day with earning it, and we are | | caught in that misery, in the endless routine and boredom of it. Most of | | us are trained to function mechanically in some job, year in and year | | out. We have responsibilities, a wife and children to provide for, and | | caught up in this mad world we try to be serious, we try to become reli- | | gious; we go to church, we join this religious organization or that - or | | perhaps we hear about these meetings and because we have holidays we | | turn up here. But none of that will bring about this extraordinary | | transformation of the mind. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, September 30, 2030 (273) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[30]--[29]--[29]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THE RELIGIOUS MIND INCLUDES THE SCIENTIFIC MIND | | | | A religious mind is free of all authority. And it is extremely difficult | | to be free from authority - not only the authority imposed by another | | but also the authority of the experience which one has gathered, which | | is of the past, which is tradition. And the religious mind has no be- | | liefs; it has no dogmas; it moves from fact to fact, and therefore the | | religious mind is the scientific mind. But the scientific mind is not | | the religious mind. The religious mind includes the scientific mind, but | | the mind that is trained in the knowledge of science is not a religious | | mind.A religious mind is concerned with the totality - not with a par- | | ticular function, but with the total functioning of human existence. The | | brain is concerned with a particular function; it specializes. It func- | | tions in specialization as a scientist, a doctor, an engineer, a musi- | | cian, an artist, a writer. It is these specialized, narrowed-down tech- | | niques that create division, not only inwardly but outwardly. The scien- | | tist is probably regarded as the most important man required by society | | just now, as is the doctor. So function becomes all-important; and with | | it goes status, status being prestige. So where there is specialization | | there must be contradiction and a narrowing-down, and that is the func- | | tion of the brain. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ O-C-T-O-B-E-R 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 27[☺] 04[◑] 11[☻] 19[☽] | 01 02 03 04 05 06 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20[ __[♎LIBRA]__/ 21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 / [♏SCORPIO] Monthly Goals: Tuesday, October 01, 2030 (274) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | OCT/ NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[31]--[30]--[30]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T I M E P R O V I D E S N O S O L U T I O N | | | | All religions have maintained that time is necessary, the psychological | | time we are talking about. Heaven is very far away, and one can only | | come to it through the gradual process of evolution, through suppres- | | sion, through growth, or through identification with an object, with | | something superior. Our question is whether it is possible to be free of | | fear immediately. Otherwise fear breeds disorder; psychological time in- | | variably does breed extraordinary disorder within one.I am questioning | | the whole idea of evolution, not of the physical being, but of thought | | which has identified itself with a particular form of existence in time. | | The brain has obviously evolved to come to this present stage, and it | | may evolve still further, expand still more. But as a human being, I | | have lived for forty or fifty years in a world made up of all kinds of | | theories, conflicts, and concepts; in a society in which greed, envy, | | and competition have bred wars. I am a part of all that. To a man who is | | in sorrow, there is no significance in looking to time for a solution, | | in evolving slowly for the next two million years as a human being. Con- | | stituted as we are, is it possible to be free from fear and from psycho- | | logical time? Physical time must exist; you can't get away from that. | | The question is whether psychological time can bring not only order | | within the individual but also social order. We are part of society; we | | are not separate. Where there is order in a human being, there will | | inevitably be social order outwardly. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, October 02, 2030 (275) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ DEC/ JAN/ +---[01]--[01]--[31]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A T I M E L E S S S T A T E | | | | When we are talking about time, we do not mean chronological time, time | | by the watch. That time exists, must exist. If you want to catch a bus, | | if you want to get to a train or meet an appointment tomorrow, you must | | have chronological time. But is there a tomorrow, psychologically, which | | is the time of the mind? Is there psychologically tomorrow, actually? Or | | is the tomorrow created by thought because thought sees the impossibili- | | ty of change, directly, immediately, and invents this process of gradu- | | alness? I see for myself, as a human being, that it is terribly impor- | | tant to bring about a radical revolution in my way of life, thinking, | | feeling, and in my actions, and I say to myself, "I'll take time over | | it; I'll be different tomorrow, or in a month's time." That is the time | | we are talking about: the psychological structure of time, of tomorrow, | | or the future, and in that time we live. Time is the past, the present, | | and the future, not by the watch. I was, yesterday; yesterday operates | | through today and creates the future. That's a fairly simple thing. I | | had an experience a year ago that left an imprint on my mind, and the | | present I translate according to that experience, knowledge, tradition, | | conditioning, and I create the tomorrow. I'm caught in this circle. This | | is what we call living; this is what we call time.Thought, which is you, | | with all its memories, conditioning, ideas, hopes, despair, the utter | | loneliness of existence - all that is this time.... And to understand a | | timeless state, when time has come to a stop, one must inquire whether | | the mind can be free totally of all experience, which is of time. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, October 03, 2030 (276) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ JAN/ +---[02]--[02]--[01]--[31] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E V E R Y N A T U R E O F T H O U G H T | | | | Time is thought, and thought is the process of memory that creates time | | as yesterday, today and tomorrow, as a thing that we use as a means of | | achievement, as a way of life. Time to us is extraordinarily important, | | life after life, one life leading to another life that is modified, that | | continues. Surely, time is the very nature of thought, thought is time. | | And as long as time exists as a means to something, the mind cannot go | | beyond itself - the quality of going beyond itself belongs to the new | | mind which is free of time. Time is a factor in fear. By time, I don't | | mean the chronological time, by the watch - second, minute, hour, day, | | year, but time as a psychological, inward process. It is that fact that | | brings about fear. Time is fear; as time is thought, it does breed fear; | | it is time that creates frustration, conflicts, because the immediate | | perception of the fact, the seeing of the fact is timeless....So, to un- | | derstand fear, one must be aware of time - time as distance, space; me | | which thought creates as yesterday, today and tomorrow, using the memory | | of yesterday to adjust itself to the present and so to condition the fu- | | ture. So, for most of us fear is an extraordinary reality; and a mind | | that is entangled with fear, with the complexity of fear, can never be | | free; it can never understand the totality of fear, without understand- | | ing the intricacies of time. They go together. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, October 04, 2030 (277) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[03]--[03]--[02]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E D I S O R D E R T H A T T I M E C R E A T E S | | | | So time means moving from what is to "what should be." I am afraid, but | | one day I shall be free of fear; therefore, time is necessary to be free | | of fear - at least, that is what we think. To change from what is to | | "what should be" involves time. Now, time implies effort in that inter- | | val between what is and "what should be." I don't like fear, and I am | | going to make an effort to understand, to analyse, to dissect it, or I | | am going to discover the cause of it, or I am going to escape totally | | from it. All this implies effort - and effort is what we are used to. We | | are always in conflict between what is and "what should be." The "what I | | should be" is an idea, and the idea is fictitious, it is not 'what I | | am', which is the fact; and the 'what I am' can be changed only when I | | understand the disorder that time creates.So, it is possible for me to | | be rid of fear totally, completely, on the instant? If I allow fear to | | continue, I will create disorder all the time; therefore, one sees that | | time is an element of disorder, not a means to be ultimately free of | | fear. So there is no gradual process of getting rid of fear, just as | | there is no gradual process of getting rid of the poison of nationalism. | | If you have nationalism and you say that eventually there will be the | | brotherhood of man, in the interval there are wars, there are hatreds, | | there is misery, there is all this appalling division between man and | | man; therefore, time is creating disorder. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, October 05, 2030 (278) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[04]--[04]--[03]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T I M E I S A P O I S O N | | | | In your bathroom you have a bottle marked "poison," and you know it is | | poison; you are very careful of that bottle, even in the dark. You are | | always watching out for it. You don't say, "How am I to keep away, how | | am I to be watchful of that bottle?" You know it is poison, so you are | | tremendously attentive to it. Time is a poison; it creates disorder. If | | this is a fact to you, then you can proceed into the understanding of | | how to be free of fear immediately. But if you are still holding time as | | a means of freeing yourself, there is no communication between you and | | me.You see, there is something much more; there may be a totally differ- | | ent kind of time altogether. We only know two times, physical and psy- | | chological, and we are caught in time. Physical time plays an important | | part in the psyche, and the psyche has an important influence on the | | physical. We are caught in this battle, in this influence. One must ac- | | cept physical time in order to catch the bus or the train, but if one | | rejects psychological time completely, then one may come to a time that | | is something quite different, a time which is not related to either. I | | wish you would come on with me into that time! Then time is not disor- | | der; it is tremendous order. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, October 06, 2030 (279) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[05]--[05]--[04]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T R U T H C O M E S I N A F L A S H | | | | Truth or understanding comes in a flash, and that flash has no continu- | | ity; it is not within the field of time. Do see this for yourself. Un- | | derstanding is fresh, instantaneous; it is not the continuity of some- | | thing that has been. What has been cannot bring you understanding. As | | long as one is seeking a continuity - wanting permanency in relation- | | ship, in love, longing to find peace everlasting, and all the rest of it | | - one is pursuing something which is within the field of time and there- | | fore does not belong to the timeless. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, October 07, 2030 (280) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[06]--[06]--[05]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A V A I N P U R S U I T | | | | As long as we think in terms of time, there must be fear of death. I | | have learned, but I have not found the ultimate, and before I die I must | | find it; or if I do not find it before I die, at least I hope I shall | | find it in the next life, and so on. All our thinking is based on time. | | Our thinking is the known, it is the outcome of the known, and the known | | is the process of time; and with that mind we are trying to find out | | what it is to be immortal, beyond time, which is a vain pursuit. It has | | no meaning except to philosophers, theorists and speculators. If I want | | to find the truth, not tomorrow, but actually, directly, must not I - | | the "me", the self that is always gathering, striving and giving itself | | a continuity through memory - cease to continue? Is it not possible to | | die while living - not artificially to lose one's memory, which is amne- | | sia, but actually to cease to accumulate through memory, and thereby | | cease to give continuance to the "me"? Living in this world, which is of | | time, is it not possible for the mind to bring about, without any form | | of compulsion, a state in which the experiencer and the experience have | | no basis? As long as there is the experiencer, the observer, the | | thinker, there must be the fear of ending, and therefore of death....And | | so, if it is possible for the mind to know all this, to be fully aware | | of it and not merely say, "Yes, it is simple" - if the mind can be aware | | of the total process of consciousness, see the whole significance of | | continuity and of time, and the futility of this search through time to | | find that which is beyond time - if it can be aware of all that, then | | there may be a death which is really a creativity totally beyond time. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, October 08, 2030 (281) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[07]--[07]--[06]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | P E R C E P T I O N A C T S | | | | You see and I do not see-why does this happen? I think it happens be- | | cause one is involved in time; you do not see things in time, I see it | | in time. Your seeing is an action of your whole being, and your whole | | being is not caught in time; you do not think of gradual arrival; you | | see something immediately, and that very perception acts. I do not see; | | I want to find out why I do not see. What is the thing that will make me | | see something totally so that I have understood the whole thing immedi- | | ately? You see the whole structure of life: the beauty, the ugliness, | | the sorrow, the joy, the extraordinary sensitivity, the beauty; you see | | the whole thing, and I cannot. I see a part of it, but I do not see the | | whole of it....The man who sees something totally, who sees life total- | | ly, must obviously be out of time. Sirs, do listen to this, because this | | has something actually to do with our daily existence; it is not some- | | thing spiritual, philosophical, out of daily existence. If we understand | | this, then we will understand our daily routine, boredom, and sorrows, | | the nauseating anxieties and fears. So do not brush it away by saying, | | `What has it to do with our daily existence?' It has. One can see-at | | least for me, it is very clear-that you can cut, like a surgeon, the w- | | hole cord of misery immediately. That is why I want to go into it with | | you. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, October 09, 2030 (282) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[08]--[08]--[07]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A T T H E E D G E O F A L L T H O U G H T | | | | Has it ever happened to you - I am sure it has - that you suddenly per- | | ceive something, and in that moment of perception you have no problems | | at all? The very moment you have perceived the problem, the problem has | | completely ceased. Do you understand, sirs? You have a problem, and you | | think about it, argue with it, worry over it; you exercise every means | | within the limits of your thought to understand it. Finally you say, "I | | can do no more." There is nobody to help you to understand, no guru, no | | book. You are left with the problem, and there is no way out. Having in- | | quired into the problem to the full extent of your capacity, you leave | | it alone. Your mind is no longer worried, no longer tearing at the prob- | | lem, no longer saying, "I must find an answer"; so it becomes quiet, | | does it not? And in that quietness you find the answer. Hasn't that | | sometimes happened to you? It is not an enormous thing. It happens to | | great mathematicians, scientists, and people experience it occasionally | | in everyday life. Which means what? The mind has exercised fully its ca- | | pacity to think, and has come to the edge of all thought without having | | found an answer; therefore it becomes quiet - not through weariness, not | | through fatigue, not by saying, "I will be quiet and thereby find the | | answer." Having already done everything possible to find the answer, the | | mind becomes spontaneously quiet. There is an awareness without choice, | | without any demand, an awareness in which there is no anxiety; and in | | that state of mind there is perception. It is this perception alone that | | will resolve all our problems. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, October 10, 2030 (283) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[09]--[09]--[08]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H I S C H O I C E L E S S A W A R E N E S S | | | | Great seers have always told us to acquire experience. They have said | | that experience gives us understanding. But it is only the innocent | | mind, the mind unclouded by experience, totally free from the past- it | | is only such a mind that can perceive what is reality. If you see the | | truth of that, if you perceive it for a split second, you will know the | | extraordinary clarity of a mind that is innocent. This means the falling | | away of all the encrustations of memory, which is the discarding of the | | past. But to perceive it, there can be no question of "how." Your mind | | must not be distracted by the "how," by the desire for an answer. Such a | | mind is not an attentive mind. As I said earlier in this talk, in the | | beginning is the end. In the beginning is the seed of the ending of that | | which we call sorrow. The ending of sorrow is realized in sorrow itself, | | not away from sorrow. To move away from sorrow is merely to find an an- | | swer, a conclusion, an escape; but sorrow continues. Whereas, if you | | give it your complete attention, which is to be attentive with your w- | | hole being, then you will see that there is an immediate perception in | | which no time is involved, in which there is no effort, no conflict; and | | it is this immediate perception, this choiceless awareness that puts an | | end to sorrow. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, October 11, 2030 (284) ☻ ♎ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[10]--[10]--[09]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E A C T I V E S T I L L M I N D | | | | The mind that is really still is astonishingly active, alive, potent- | | not towards anything in particular. It is only such a mind which is ver- | | bally free-free from experience, from knowledge. Such a mind can per- | | ceive what is true, such a mind has direct perception which is beyond | | time.The mind can only be silent when it has understood the process of | | time and that requires watchfulness, does it not? Must not such a mind | | be free, not from anything but be free? We only know freedom from some- | | thing. A mind that is free from something is not a free mind; such free- | | dom, the freedom from something, is only a reaction, and it is not free- | | dom. A mind that is seeking freedom is never free. But the mind is free | | when it understands the fact, as it is, without translating, without | | condemning without judging; and being free, such a mind is an innocent | | mind, though it lived 100 days, 100 years, having all the experiences. | | It is innocent because it is free, not from anything but in itself. It | | is only such a mind that can perceive that which is true, which is be- | | yond time. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, October 12, 2030 (285) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[11]--[11]--[10]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O U T O F P E R C E P T I O N C O M E S E N E R G Y | | | | The problem is, surely, to free the mind totally so that it is in a s- | | tate of awareness which has no border, no frontier. And how is the mind | | to discover that state? How is it to come to that freedom?I hope you are | | seriously putting this question to yourselves because I am not putting | | it to you. I am not trying to influence you; I am merely pointing out | | the importance of asking oneself this question. The verbal asking of the | | question by another has no meaning if you don't put it to yourself with | | instance, with urgency. The margin of freedom is growing narrower every | | day, as you must know if you are at all observant. The politicians, the | | leaders, the priests, the newspapers and books you read, the knowledge | | you acquire, the beliefs you cling to-all this is making the margin of | | freedom more and more narrow. If you are aware of this process going on, | | if you actually perceive the narrowness of the spirit, the increasing | | slavery of the mind, then you will find that out of perception comes en- | | ergy; and it is this energy born of perception that is going to shatter | | the petty mind, the respectable mind, the mind that goes to the temple, | | the mind that is afraid. So perception is the way of truth. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, October 13, 2030 (286) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[12]--[12]--[11]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E C H A T T E R I N G M I N D | | | | You know,to perceive something is an astonishing experience. I don't | | know if you have ever really perceived anything; if you have ever per- | | ceived a flower or a face or the sky, or the sea. Of course, you see | | these things as you pass by in a bus or a car; but I wonder whether you | | have ever taken the trouble actually to look at a flower? And when you | | do look at a flower, what happens? You immediately name the flower, you | | are concerned with what species it belongs to, or you say, "What lovely | | colours it has. I would like to grow it in my garden; I would like to | | give it to my wife, or put it in my buttonhole", and so on. In other | | words, the moment you look at a flower, your mind begins chattering | | about it; therefore you never perceive the flower. You perceive some- | | thing only when your mind is silent, when there is no chattering of any | | kind. If you can look at the evening star over the sea without a move- | | ment of the mind, then you really perceive the extraordinary beauty of | | it; and when you perceive beauty, do you not also experience the state | | of love? Surely, beauty and love are the same. Without love there is no | | beauty, and without beauty there is no love. Beauty is in form, beauty | | is in speech, beauty is in conduct. If there is no love, conduct is emp- | | ty; it is merely the product of society, of a particular culture, and | | what is produced is mechanical, lifeless. But when the mind perceives | | without the slightest flutter, then it is capable of looking into the | | total depth of itself; and such perception is really timeless. You don't | | have to do something to bring it about; there is no discipline, no prac- | | tice, no method by which you can learn to perceive. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, October 14, 2030 (287) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[13]--[13]--[12]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | K N O W L E D G E D I V E R T S T H E M I N D | | | | You have only one instrument, which is the mind; and the mind is the | | brain also. Therefore, to find out the truth of this matter, you must | | understand the ways of the mind, must you not? If the mind is crooked | | you will never see straight; if the mind is very limited you cannot per- | | ceive the illimitable. The mind is the instrument of perception and, to | | perceive truly, the mind must be made straight, it must be cleansed of | | all conditioning, of all fear. The mind must also be free of knowledge, | | because knowledge diverts the mind and makes things twisted. The enor- | | mous capacity of the mind to invent, to imagine, to speculate, to | | think-must not this capacity be put aside so that the mind is very clear | | and very simple? Because it is only the innocent mind, the mind that has | | experienced vastly and yet is free of knowledge and experience; it is | | only such a mind that can discover that which is more than brain and | | mind. Otherwise what you discover will be coloured by what you have al- | | ready experienced, and your experience is the result of your condition- | | ing. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, October 15, 2030 (288) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[14]--[14]--[13]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D R O W N E D B Y I N F L U E N C E | | | | Why does the mind grow old? It is old, is it not, in the sense of get- | | ting decrepit, deteriorating, repeating itself, caught in habits, sexual | | habits, religious habits, job habits, or various habits of ambition. The | | mind is so burdened with innumerable experiences and memories, so marred | | and scarred with sorrow that it cannot see anything freshly but is al- | | ways translating what it sees in terms of its own memories, conclusions, | | formulas, always quoting; it is authority-bound; it is an old mind. You | | can see why it happens. All our education is merely the cultivation of | | memory; and there is this mass communication through journals, the ra- | | dio, the television; there are the professors who read lectures and re- | | peat the same thing over and over again until your brain soaks in what | | they have repeated, and you vomit it up in an examination and get your | | degree and go on with the process - the job, the routine, the incessant | | repetition. Not only that, but there is also our own inward struggle of | | ambition with its frustrations, the competition not only for jobs but | | for God, wanting to be near Him, asking the quick road to him.So, what | | is happening is that through pressure, through stress, through strain, | | our minds are being crowded, drowned by influence, by sorrow, conscious- | | ly or unconsciously. ...We are wearing down the mind, not using it. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, October 16, 2030 (289) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[15]--[15]--[14]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | THE OLD BRAIN, OUR ANIMALISTIC BRAIN | | | | I think it is important to understand the operation, the functioning, | | the activity of the old brain. When the new brain operates, the old | | brain cannot possibly understand the new brain. It is only when the old | | brain, which is our conditioned brain, our animalistic brain, the brain | | that has been cultivated through centuries of time, which is everlast- | | ingly seeking its own security, its own comfort - it is only when that | | old brain is quiet that you will see that there is a different kind of | | movement altogether, and it is this movement which is going to bring | | clarity. It is this movement which is clarity itself. To understand, you | | must understand the old brain, be aware of it, know all its movements, | | its activities, its demands, its pursuits, and that is why meditation is | | very important. I do not mean the absurd, systematized cultivation of a | | certain habit of thought, and the rest of it; that's all too immature | | and childish. By meditation I mean to understand the operations of the | | old brain, to watch it, to know how it reacts, what its responses are, | | its tendencies, its demands, its aggressive pursuits - to know the whole | | of that, the unconscious as well as the conscious part of it. When you | | know it, when there is an awareness of it, without controlling it, with- | | out directing it, without saying, "This is good; this is bad; I'll keep | | this; I won't keep that," - when you see the total movement of the old | | mind, when you see it totally, then it becomes quiet. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, October 17, 2030 (290) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[16]--[16]--[15]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A F R E S H M I N D | | | | I think constant endeavour to be something, to become something, is the | | real cause of the destructiveness and the ageing of the mind. Look how | | quickly we are ageing, not only the people who are over 60, but also the | | young people. How old they are already, mentally! Very few sustain or | | maintain the quality of a mind that is young. I mean by young not the | | mind that merely wants to enjoy itself, to have a good time, but the | | mind that is uncontaminated, that is not scratched, warped, twisted by | | the accidents and incidents of life, a mind that is not worn out by | | struggle, by grief, by constant strivings. Surely it is necessary to | | have a young mind because the old mind is so full of the scars of memo- | | ries that it cannot live, it cannot be earnest; it is a dead mind, a de- | | cided mind. A mind that has decided and lives according to its decisions | | is dead. But a young mind is always deciding anew, and a fresh mind does | | not burden itself with innumerable memories. A mind that carries no | | shadow of suffering, though it may pass through the valley of sorrow, | | remains unscratched.I do not think such a young mind is to be acquired. | | It is not a thing that you can purchase through endeavour, through sac- | | rifice. There is no coin to it and it is not a marketable thing, but if | | you see the importance of it, the necessity of it, if you see the truth | | of it, then something else takes place. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, October 18, 2030 (291) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[17]--[17]--[16]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D I S C A R D A L L M E T H O D S | | | | How is the religious mind or the new mind to come into being? Will you | | have a system, a method? Through a method - a method being a system, a | | practice, a repetitive thing day after day? Will a method produce a new | | mind? ...Surely, a method implies, a continuity of a practice, directed | | along a certain line towards a certain result - which is, to acquire a | | mechanical habit, and through that mechanical habit to realize a mind | | which is not mechanical....When you say, "discipline", all discipline is | | based on a method according to a certain pattern; and the pattern | | promises you a result which is predetermined by a mind which has already | | a belief, which has already taken a position. So, will a method, in the | | widest or the narrowest sense of that word, bring about this new mind? | | If it does not, then method as habit must go completely, because it is | | false. ...Method only conditions the mind according to the result which | | is desired. You have to discard all the mechanical processes of the | | mind. ...The mind must discard all the mechanical processes of thought. | | So, the idea that a method, a system, a discipline, a continuity of | | habit will bring about this mind is not true. So, all that is to be dis- | | carded totally as being mechanical. A mind that is mechanical is a tra- | | ditional mind; it cannot meet life which is non mechanical; so, the | | method is to be put aside. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, October 19, 2030 (292) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[18]--[18]--[17]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A M I N D W I T H O U T A N C H O R A G E O R H A V E N | | | | You need a new mind, a mind that is free of time, a mind which no longer | | thinks in terms of distance or space, a mind that has no horizon, a mind | | that has no anchorage or haven. You need such a mind to deal not only | | with the everlasting but also with the immediate problems of exis- | | tence.Therefore the issue is: Is it possible for each one of us to have | | such a mind? Not gradually, not to cultivate it because cultivation, de- | | velopment, a process, implies time. It must take place immediately; | | there must be a transformation now, in the sense of a timeless quality. | | Life is death, and death is awaiting you; you cannot argue with death as | | you can argue with life. So is it possible to have such a mind? - not as | | an achievement, not as a goal, not as a thing to be aimed at, not as | | something to be arrived at, because all that implies time and space. We | | have a very convenient, luxurious theory that there is time to progress, | | to arrive, to achieve, to come near truth; that is a fallacious idea, it | | is an illusion completely - time is an illusion in that sense. Such a | | mind is the urgent thing, not only now, but always. ...When the house is | | burning, there is no time to discuss whether you are a Hindu, a Muslim, | | or a Buddhist, whether you have read the Gita, the Upanishads; a man who | | discusses those things is totally unaware of the fact that the house is | | burning. And when the house is burning, you may not be aware of it, you | | may be dull or insensitive, you may have become weak. ...If you say that | | it is not possible, then there is nothing that can be done; then you | | have closed the door yourself. ...If you say that it may be possible and | | if it is not a hope, then it means it may be possible; you do not know. | | Do you understand the difference between the two? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, October 20, 2030 (293) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[19]--[19]--[18]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A C T I V E B U T Q U I E T | | | | To discover the new mind, not only is it necessary for us to understand | | the responses of the old brain, but also is it necessary for the old | | brain to be quiet. The old brain must be active but quiet. You are fol- | | lowing what I am saying? Look, sir! If you would discover for yourself | | first-hand - not what somebody else says - if there is a reality, if | | there is such a thing as God - the word God is not the fact - your old | | brain, which has been nurtured in a tradition, either anti-God or | | pro-God, in a culture, in an environmental influence and propaganda, | | through centuries of social assertion, must be quiet. Because, other- | | wise, it will only project its own images, its own concepts, its own | | values. But those values, those concepts, those beliefs are the result | | of what you have been told, or are the result of your reactions to what | | you have been told; so, unconsciously, you say, "This is my experi- | | ence!"So you have to question the very validity of experience - your own | | experience or of the experience of anybody else; it does not matter who | | it is. Then by questioning, enquiring, asking, demanding, looking, lis- | | tening attentively, the reactions of the old brain become quiet. But the | | brain is not asleep; it is very active, but it is quiet. It has come to | | that quietness through observation, through investigation. And to inves- | | tigate, to observe, you must have light; and the light is your constant | | alertness. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, October 21, 2030 (294) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[20]--[20]--[19]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E R E I S A Q U I E T N E S S | | | | I hope that you will listen, but not with the memory of what you already | | know; and this is very difficult to do. You listen to something, and y- | | our mind immediately reacts with its knowledge, its conclusions, its | | opinions, its past memories. It listens, inquiring for a future under- | | standing. Just observe yourself, how you are listening, and you will see | | that this is what is taking place. Either you are listening with a con- | | clusion, with knowledge, with certain memories, experiences, or you want | | an answer, and you are impatient. You want to know what it is all about, | | what life is all about, the extraordinary complexity of life. You are | | not actually listening at all. You can only listen when the mind is qui- | | et, when the mind doesn't react immediately, when there is an interval | | between your reaction and what is being said. Then in that interval | | there is a quietness, there is a silence in which alone there is a com- | | prehension which is not intellectual understanding. If there is a gap | | between what is said and your own reaction to what is said, in that in- | | terval, whether you prolong it indefinitely, for a long period or for a | | few seconds - in that interval, if you observe, there comes clarity. It | | is the interval that is the new brain. The immediate reaction is the old | | brain, and the old brain functions in its own traditional, accepted, re- | | actionary, animalistic sense. When there is an abeyance of that, when | | the reaction is suspended, when there is an interval, then you will find | | that the new brain acts, and it is only the new brain that can under- | | stand, not the old brain. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, October 22, 2030 (295) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[21]--[21]--[20]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O U R R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y | | | | To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is impor- | | tant in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be | | to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform them- | | selves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of | | the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our | | responsibility, yours and mine; because, however small may be the world | | we live in, if we can transform ourselves, bring about a radically dif- | | ferent point of view in our daily existence, then perhaps we shall af- | | fect the world at large, the extended relationship with others. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, October 23, 2030 (296) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[22]--[22]--[21]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I F T H E M I N D I S O C C U P I E D | | | | Whether change is brought about consciously or unconsciously it is still | | the same. Conscious change implies effort; and unconscious endeavour to | | bring about a change also implies an effort, a struggle. So long as | | there is a struggle, conflict, the change is merely enforced, and there | | is no understanding; and therefore it is no longer a change at all. So, | | is the mind capable of meeting the problem of change, - of acquisitive- | | ness, for example, - without making an effort, just seeing the whole im- | | plication of acquisitiveness? Because you cannot see the whole content | | of acquisitiveness totally so long as there is any endeavour to change | | it. Real change can only take place when the mind comes to the problem | | afresh, not with all the jaded memories of a thousand yesterdays. Obvi- | | ously you cannot have a fresh, eager mind if the mind is occupied. And | | the mind ceases to be occupied only when it sees the truth about its own | | occupation. You cannot see the truth if you are not giving your whole | | attention, if you are translating what is being said into something | | which will suit you, or translating it into your own terms. You must | | come to something new with a fresh mind, and a mind is not fresh when it | | is occupied, consciously or unconsciously. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, October 24, 2030 (297) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[23]--[23]--[22]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | K N O W L E D G E I S A D E T R I M E N T T O C H A N G E | | | | This requires a great deal of insight, inquiry. Don't agree with me, but | | go into it, meditate, tear your mind apart to find out the truth or the | | falseness of all this. Does knowledge, which is the known, bring about | | change? I must have knowledge to build a bridge; but must my mind know | | towards what it is changing? Surely, if I know what the state of the | | mind will be when it is changed, it is no longer change. Such knowledge | | is a detriment to change because it becomes a means of satisfaction, and | | as long as there is a centre seeking satisfaction, reward, or security, | | there is no change at all. And all our efforts are based on that centre | | of reward, punishment, success, gain, are they not? That is all most of | | us are concerned with, and if it will help us get what we want, we will | | change; but such change is no change at all. So the mind that wishes to | | be fundamentally, deeply in a state of change, in a state of revolution, | | must be free from the known. Then the mind becomes astonishingly still, | | and only such a mind will experience the radical transformation which is | | so necessary. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, October 25, 2030 (298) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[24]--[24]--[23]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C O M P L E T E E M P T I N E S S | | | | For the complete mutation in consciousness to take place you must deny | | analysis and search, and no longer be under any influence - which is im- | | mensely difficult. The mind, seeing what is false, has put the false a- | | side completely, not knowing what is true. If you already know what is | | true, then you are merely exchanging what you consider is false for what | | you imagine is true. There is no renunciation if you know what you are | | going to get in return. There is only renunciation when you drop some- | | thing not knowing what is going to happen. That state of negation is | | completely necessary. Please follow this carefully, because if you have | | gone so far you will see that in that state of negation you discover | | what is true; because, negation is the emptying of consciousness of the | | known. After all, consciousness is based on knowledge, on experience, on | | racial inheritance, on memory, on the things one has experienced. Expe- | | riences are always of the past, operating on the present, being modified | | by the present and continuing into the future. All that is conscious- | | ness, the vast storehouse of centuries. It has its usefulness in mechan- | | ical living only. It would be absurd to deny all the scientific knowl- | | edge acquired through the long past. But to bring about a mutation in | | consciousness, a revolution in this whole structure, there must be com- | | plete emptiness. And that emptiness is possible only when there is the | | discovery, the actual seeing of what is false. Then you will see, if you | | have gone so far, that emptiness itself brings about a complete revolu- | | tion in consciousness: it has taken place. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, October 26, 2030 (299) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[25]--[25]--[24]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | DELIBERATE CHANGE IS NO CHANGE AT ALL | | | | In the very action of the individual changing, surely, the collective | | will also change. They are not two separate things opposed to each | | other, the individual and the collective, though certain political | | groups try to separate the two and to force the individual to conform to | | the so-called collective.If we could unravel together the whole problem | | of change, how to bring about a change in the individual and what that | | change implies, then perhaps, in the very act of listening, participat- | | ing in the inquiry, there might come about a change which is without y- | | our volition. For me, a deliberate change, a change which is compulsory, | | disciplinary, conformative, is no change at all. Force, influence, some | | new invention, propaganda, a fear, a motive compels you to change - that | | is no change at all. And though intellectually you may agree very easily | | with this, I assure you that to fathom the actual nature of change with- | | out a motive is quite extraordinary. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, October 27, 2030 (300) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[26]--[26]--[25]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O U T S I D E O F T H E F I E L D O F T H O U G H T | | | | You have changed your ideas, you have changed your thought, but thought | | is always conditioned. Whether it is the thought of Jesus, Buddha, X, Y, | | or Z, it is still thought, and therefore one thought can be in opposi- | | tion to another thought; and when there is opposition, a conflict be- | | tween two thoughts, the result is a modified continuity of thought. In | | other words, the change is still within the field of thought, and change | | within the field of thought is no change at all. One idea or set of | | ideas has merely been substituted for another.Seeing this whole process, | | is it possible to leave thought and bring about a change outside the | | field of thought? All consciousness, surely, whether it is of the past, | | the present, or the future, is within the field of thought; and any | | change within that field, which sets the boundaries of the mind, is no | | real change. A radical change can take place only outside the field of | | thought, not within it, and the mind can leave the field only when it | | sees the confines, the boundaries of the field, and realizes that any | | change within the field is no change at all. This is real meditation. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, October 28, 2030 (301) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[27]--[27]--[26]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | R E A L C H A N G E | | | | A change is possible only from the known to the unknown, not from the | | known to the known. Do please think this over with me. In the change | | from the known to the known, there is authority, there is hierarchical | | outlook of life - "You know, I do not know. Therefore, I worship you, I | | create a system, I go after a guru, I follow you because you are giving | | me what I want to know, you are giving me a certainty of conduct that | | will produce the result, the success and the result." Success is the | | known. I know what it is to be successful. That is what I want. So we | | proceed from the known to the known in which authority must exist - the | | authority of sanction, the authority of the leader, the guru, the hier- | | archy, the one who knows and the other who does not know - and the one | | who knows must guarantee me the success, the success in my endeavour, in | | change, so that I will be happy, I will have what I want. Is that not | | the motive for most of us to change? Do please observe your own think- | | ing, and you will see the ways of your own life and conduct....When you | | look at it, is that change? Change, revolution, is something from the | | known to the unknown in which there is no authority, in which there may | | be total failure. But if you are assured that you will achieve, you will | | succeed, you will be happy, you will have everlasting life, then there | | is no problem. Then you pursue the well-known course of action, which | | is, yourself being always at the centre of things. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, October 29, 2030 (302) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[28]--[28]--[27]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C A N A H U M A N B E I N G C H A N G E ? | | | | One must have asked oneself, I'm quite sure, whether one changes at all. | | I know that outward circumstances change; we marry, divorce, have chil- | | dren; there is death, a better job, the pressure of new inventions, and | | so on. Outwardly there is a tremendous revolution going on in cybernet- | | ics and automation. One must have asked oneself whether it is at all | | possible for one to change at all, not in relation to outward events, | | not a change that is a mere repetition or a modified continuity, but a | | radical revolution, a total mutation of the mind. When one realizes, as | | one must have noticed within oneself, that actually one doesn't change, | | one gets terribly depressed, or one escapes from oneself. So the | | inevitable question arises, can there be change at all? We go back to a | | period when we were young, and that comes back to us again. Is there | | change at all in human beings? Have you changed at all? Perhaps there | | has been a modification on the periphery. but deeply, radically, have | | you changed? Perhaps we do not want to change, because we are fairly | | comfortable....I want to change. I see that I am terribly unhappy, de- | | pressed, ugly, violent, with an occasional flash of something other than | | the mere result of a motive; and I exercise my will to do something | | about it. I say I must be different, I must drop this habit, that habit; | | I must think differently; I must act in a different way; I must be more | | this and less that. One makes a tremendous effort and at the end of it | | one is still shoddy, depressed, ugly, brutal, without any sense of qual- | | ity. So one then asks oneself if there is change at all. Can a human be- | | ing change? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, October 30, 2030 (303) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[29]--[29]--[28]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T R A N S F O R M A T I O N W I T H O U T M O T I V A T I O N | | | | How am I to transform? I see the truth - at least, I see something in it | | - that a change, a transformation, must begin at a level that the mind, | | as the conscious or the unconscious, cannot reach, because my conscious- | | ness as a whole is conditioned. So, what am I to do? I hope I am making | | the problem clear. If I may put it differently; Can my mind, the con- | | scious as well as the unconscious, be free of society? - society being | | all the education, the culture, the norm, the values, the standards. Be- | | cause if it is not free, then whatever change it tries to bring about | | within that conditioned state is still limited, and therefore no change | | at all.So, can I look without any motive? Can my mind exist without any | | incentive, without any motive to change or not to change? Because, any | | motive is the outcome of the reaction of a particular culture, is born | | out of a particular background. So, can my mind be free from the given | | culture in which I have been brought up? This is really quite an impor- | | tant question. Because if the mind is not free from the culture in which | | it has been reared, nurtured, surely the individual can never be at | | peace, can never have freedom. His gods and his myths, his symbols and | | all his endeavours are limited, for they are still within the field of | | the conditioned mind. Whatever efforts he makes, or does not make, with- | | in that limited field, are really futile in the deepest sense of that | | word. There may be a better decoration of the prison, more light, more | | windows, better food, but it is still the prison of a particular cul- | | ture. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, October 31, 2030 (304) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | NOV/ DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ +---[30]--[30]--[29]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A P S Y C H O L O G I C A L R E V O L U T I O N | | | | Is it possible for the thinker and the thought, for the observer and the | | observed, to be one? You will never find out if you merely glance at | | this problem and superficially ask me to explain what I mean by this or | | that. Surely, this is your problem, it is not my problem only; you are | | not here to find out how I look at this problem or the problems of the | | world. This constant battle within, which is so destructive, so deterio- | | rating - it is your problem, is it not? And it is also your problem how | | to bring about a radical change in yourself and not be satisfied with | | superficial revolutions in politics, in economics, in different bureau- | | cracies. You are not trying to understand me or the way I look at life. | | You are trying to understand yourself, and these are your problems which | | you have to face; and by considering them together, which is what we are | | doing in these talks, we can perhaps help each other to look at them | | more clearly, see them more distinctly. But to see clearly merely at the | | verbal level is not enough. That does not bring about a creative psycho- | | logical change. We must go beyond the words, beyond all symbols and | | their sensations...We must put aside all these things and come to the | | central issue - how to dissolve the "me," which is time-binding, in | | which there is no love, no compassion. It is possible to go beyond only | | when the mind does not separate itself as the thinker and the thought. | | When the thinker and the thought are one, only then is there silence, | | the silence in which there is no image-making or waiting for further ex- | | perience. In that silence there is no experiencer who is experiencing, | | and only then is there a psychological revolution which is creative. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ N-O-V-E-M-B-E-R 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 26[☺] [◑] 10[☻] 18[☽] | 01 02 03 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 __[♏SCORPIO]__/ 18 19 20[21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 / [♐SAGITTARIUS] Monthly Goals: Friday, November 01, 2030 (305) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ DEC/ JAN/ MAR/ +---[01]--[31]--[30]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B R E A K I N G H A B I T S | | | | Let us find out how to understand this whole process of habit forming | | and habit breaking. We can take the example of smoking, and you can sub- | | stitute your own habit, your own particular problem, and experiment with | | your own problem directly as I am experimenting with the problem of | | smoking. It is a problem, it becomes a problem, when I want to give it | | up; as long as I am satisfied with it, it is not a problem. The problem | | arises when I have to do something about a particular habit, when the | | habit becomes a disturbance. Smoking has created a disturbance, so I | | want to be free of it. I want to stop smoking; I want to be rid of it, | | to put it aside, so my approach to smoking is one of resistance or con- | | demnation. That is, I don't want to smoke, so my approach is either to | | suppress it, condemn it, or to find a substitute for it-instead of smok- | | ing, to chew. Now, can I look at the problem free of condemnation, jus- | | tification, or suppression? Can I look at my smoking without any sense | | of rejection? Try to experiment with it now as I am talking, and you | | will see how extraordinarily difficult it is not to reject or accept. | | Because, our whole tradition, our whole background, is urging us to re- | | ject or to justify rather than to be curious about it. Instead of being | | passively watchful, the mind always operates on the problem. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, November 02, 2030 (306) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ JAN/ MAR/ +---[02]--[01]--[31]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I V E T H E F O U R S E A S O N S I N A D A Y | | | | Is it not essential that there should be a constant renewal, a rebirth? | | If the present is burdened with the experience of yesterday there can be | | no renewal. Renewal is not the action of birth and death; it is beyond | | the opposites; only freedom from the accumulation of memory brings re- | | newal, and there is no understanding save in the present.The mind can | | understand the present only if it does not compare, judge; the desire to | | alter or condemn the present without understanding it gives continuance | | to the past. Only in comprehending the reflection of the past in the | | mirror of the present, without distortion, is there renewal....If you | | have lived an experience fully, completely, have you not found that it | | leaves no traces behind? It is only the incomplete experiences that | | leave their mark, giving continuity to self-identified memory. We con- | | sider the present as a means to an end, so the present loses its immense | | significance. The present is the eternal. But how can a mind that is | | made up, put together, understand that which is not put together, which | | is beyond all value, the eternal?As each experience arises, live it out | | as fully and deeply as possible; think it out, feel it out extensively | | and profoundly; be aware of its pain and pleasure, of your judgements | | and identifications. Only when experience is completed is there a re- | | newal. We must be capable of living the four seasons in a day; to be | | keenly aware, to experience, to understand and be free of the gatherings | | of each day. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, November 03, 2030 (307) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[03]--[02]--[01]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A N O N Y M O U S C R E A T I V I T Y | | | | Have you ever thought about it? We want to be famous as a writer, as a | | poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? | | Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or | | to paint, or to write poems-if you really loved it-you would not be con- | | cerned with whether you are famous or not. To want to be famous is | | tawdry, trivial, stupid, it has no meaning; but , because we don't love | | what we are doing, we want to enrich ourselves with fame. Our present | | education is rotten because it teaches us to love success and not what | | we are doing. The result has become more important than the action.You | | know,it is good to hide your brilliance under a bushel, to be anonymous, | | to love what you are doing and not to show off. It is good to be kind | | without a name. That does not make you famous, it does not cause your | | photograph to appear in the newspapers. Politicians do not come to your | | door. You are just a creative human being living anonymously, and in | | that there is richness and great beauty. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, November 04, 2030 (308) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[04]--[03]--[02]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | E M P T Y T E C H N I Q U E S | | | | You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be | | perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the pi- | | ano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle | | colour, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative | | painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you | | have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes | | first, not technique, and that is why we are miserable all our lives. We | | have technique-how to put up a house, how to build a bridge, how to | | assemble a motor, how to educate our children through a system-we have | | learned all these techniques, but our hearts and minds are empty. We are | | first class machines; we know how to operate most beautifully, but we do | | not love a living thing. You may be a good engineer, you may be a pi- | | anist, you may write in a good style in English or Marathi or whatever | | your language is, but creativeness is not found through technique. If | | you have something to say, you create your own style; but when you have | | nothing to say, even if you have a beautiful style, what you write is | | only the traditional routine, a repetition in new words of the same old | | thing....So, having lost the song, we pursue the singer. We learn from | | the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the | | song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is | | there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you will invent your | | own technique, you won't have to study elocution or style. When you | | have, you see, and the very seeing of beauty is an art. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, November 05, 2030 (309) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[05]--[04]--[03]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | K N O W W H E N N O T T O C O O P E R A T E | | | | Reformers,political, social, and religious, will only cause more sorrow | | for man unless man understands the workings of his own mind. In the un- | | derstanding of the total process of the mind, there is a radical, inward | | revolution, and from that inward revolution springs the action of true | | cooperation, which is not cooperation with a pattern, with authority, | | with somebody who "knows." When you know how to co-operate because there | | is this inward revolution, then you will also know when not to cooper- | | ate, which is really very important, perhaps more important. We now co- | | operate with any person who offers a reform, a change, which only per- | | petuates conflict and misery, but if we can know what it is to have the | | spirit of cooperation that comes into being with the understanding of | | the total process of the mind and in which there is freedom from the | | self, then there is a possibility of creating a new civilization, a to- | | tally different world in which there is no acquisitiveness, no envy, no | | comparison. This is not a theoretical utopia but the actual state of the | | mind that is constantly inquiring and pursuing that which is true and | | blessed. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, November 06, 2030 (310) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[06]--[05]--[04]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H Y I S T H E R E C R I M E ? | | | | You see, there is either a revolt within the pattern of society, or a | | complete revolution outside of society. The complete revolution outside | | of society is what I call religious revolution. Any revolution which is | | not religious is within society and is therefore no revolution at all, | | but only a modified continuation of the old pattern. What is happening | | throughout the world, I believe, is revolt within society, and this re- | | volt often takes the form of what is called crime. There is bound to be | | this kind of revolt so long as our education is concerned only with | | training youth to fit into society-that is, to get a job, to earn money, | | to be acquisitive, to have more, to conform.That is what our so-called | | education everywhere is doing-teaching the young to conform, religious- | | ly, morally, economically; so naturally their revolt has no meaning, ex- | | cept that it must be suppressed, reformed, or controlled. Such revolt is | | still within the framework of society, and therefore it is not creative | | at all. But through right education we could perhaps bring about a dif- | | ferent understanding by helping to free the mind from all condition- | | ing-that is, by encouraging the young to be aware of the many influences | | which condition the mind and make it conform. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, November 07, 2030 (311) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[07]--[06]--[05]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I F E ' S P U R P O S E | | | | There are many people who will give you the purpose of life; they will | | tell you what the sacred books say. Clever people will go on inventing | | what the purpose of life is. The political group will have one purpose, | | the religious group will have another purpose, and so on and on. So, | | what is the purpose of life when you yourself are confused? When I am | | confused, I ask you this question, "What is the purpose of life?" be- | | cause I hope that through this confusion, I shall find an answer. How | | can I find a true answer when I am confused? Do you understand? If I am | | confused, I can only receive an answer which is also confused. If my | | mind is confused, if my mind is disturbed, if my mind is not beautiful, | | quiet, whatever answer I receive will be through this screen of confu- | | sion, anxiety, and fear; therefore, the answer will be perverted. So, | | what is important is not to ask, "What is the purpose of life, of exis- | | tence?" but to clear the confusion that is within you. It is like a | | blind man who asks, "What is light?" If I tell him what light is, he | | will listen according to his blindness, according to his darkness; but | | suppose he is able to see, then, he will never ask the question "what is | | light?" It is there.Similarly,if you can clarify the confusion within | | yourself, then you will find what the purpose of life is; you will not | | have to ask, you will not have to look for it; all that you have to do | | is to be free from those causes which bring about confusion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, November 08, 2030 (312) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[08]--[07]--[06]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L I V E I S T H I S W O R L D A N O N Y M O U S L Y | | | | Is it not possible to live in this world without ambition, just being | | what you are? If you begin to understand what you are without trying to | | change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. I think one can | | live in this world anonymously, completely unknown, without being fa- | | mous, ambitious, cruel. One can live very happily when no importance is | | given to the self; and this also is part of right education.The whole | | world is worshipping success. You hear stories of how the poor boy stud- | | ied at night and eventually became a judge, or how he began by selling | | newspapers and ended up a multi-millionaire. You are fed on the glorifi- | | cation of success. With achievement of great success there is also great | | sorrow; but most of us are caught up in the desire to achieve, and suc- | | cess is much more important to us than the understanding and dissolution | | of sorrow. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, November 09, 2030 (313) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[09]--[08]--[07]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | O N L Y O N E H O U R T O L I V E | | | | If you had only one hour to live, what would you do? Would you not ar- | | range what is necessary outwardly, your affairs, your will, and so on? | | Would you not call your family and friends together and ask their for- | | giveness for the harm that you might have done to them, and forgive them | | for whatever harm they might have done to you? Would you not die com- | | pletely to the things of the mind, to desires and to the world? And if | | it can be done for an hour, then it can also be done for the days and | | years that may remain... Try it and you will find out. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, November 10, 2030 (314) ☻ ♏ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[10]--[09]--[08]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | D I E E V E R Y D A Y | | | | What is age? Is it the number of years you have lived? That is part of | | age; you were born in such and such a year, and now you are fifteen, | | forty or sixty years old. Your body grows old-and so does your mind when | | it is burdened with all the experiences, miseries and weariness of life; | | and such a mind can never discover what is truth. The mind can discover | | only when it is young, fresh, innocent; but innocence is not a matter of | | age. It is not only the child that is innocent-he may not be-but the | | mind that is capable of experiencing without accumulating the residue of | | experience. The mind must experience, that is inevitable. It must re- | | spond to everything-to the river, to the diseased animal, to the dead | | body being carried away to be burnt, to the poor villagers carrying | | their burdens along the road, to the tortures and miseries of | | life-otherwise it is already dead; but it must be capable of responding | | without being held by the experience. It is tradition, the accumulation | | of experience, the ashes of memory, that make the mind old. The mind | | that dies every day to the memories of yesterday, to all the joys and | | sorrows of the past-such a mind is fresh, innocent, it has no age; and | | without that innocence, whether you are ten or sixty, you will not find | | God. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, November 11, 2030 (315) (Martinmas ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[11]--[10]--[09]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F E E L T H E S T A T E O F D E A T H | | | | We are afraid to die. To end the fear of death we must come into contact | | with death, not with the image which thought has created about death, | | but we must actually feel the state. Otherwise there is no end to fear, | | because the word death creates fear, and we don't even want to talk | | about it. Being healthy, normal, with the capacity to reason clearly, to | | think objectively, to observe, is it possible for us to come into con- | | tact with the fact, totally? The organism, through usage, through dis- | | ease, will eventually die. If we are healthy, we want to find out what | | death means. It's not a morbid desire, because perhaps by dying we shall | | understand living. Living, as it is now, is torture, endless turmoil, a | | contradiction, and therefore there is conflict, misery and confusion. | | The everyday going to the office, the repetition of pleasure with its | | pains, the anxiety, the groping, the uncertainty- that's what we call | | living. We have become accustomed to that kind of living. We accept it; | | we grow old with it and die.To find out what living is as well as to | | find out what dying is, one must come into contact with death, that is, | | one must end every day everything one has known. One must end the image | | that one has built up about oneself, about one's family, about one's re- | | lationship, the image that one has built through pleasure, through one's | | relationship to society, everything. That is what is going to take place | | when death occurs. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, November 12, 2030 (316) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[12]--[11]--[10]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F E A R O F D E A T H ? | | | | Why are you afraid of death? Is it perhaps because you do not know how | | to live? If you knew how to live fully, would you be afraid of death? If | | you loved the trees, the sunset, the birds, the falling leaf; if you | | were aware of men and women in tears, of poor people, and really felt | | love in your heart, would you be afraid of death? Would you? Don't be | | persuaded by me. Let us think about it together. You do not live with | | joy, you are not happy, you are not vitally sensitive to things; and is | | that why you ask what is going to happen when you die? Life for you is | | sorrow, and so you are much more interested in death. You feel that per- | | haps there will be happiness after death. But that is a tremendous prob- | | lem, and I do not know if you want to go into it. After all, fear is at | | the bottom of all this-fear of dying, fear of living, fear of suffering. | | If you cannot understand what it is that causes fear and be free of it, | | then it does not matter very much whether you are living or dead. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, November 13, 2030 (317) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[13]--[12]--[11]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I A M A F R A I D | | | | My inquiry now is how to be free from the fear of the known, which is | | the fear of losing my family, my reputation, my character, my bank ac- | | count, my appetites and so on. You may say that fear arises from con- | | science; but your conscience is formed by your conditioning, so con- | | science is still the result of the known. What do I know? Knowledge is | | having ideas, having opinions about things, having a sense of continuity | | as in relation to the known, and no more....There is fear of pain. Phys- | | ical pain is a nervous response, but psychological pain arises when I | | hold on to things that give me satisfaction, for then I am afraid of | | anyone or anything that may take them away from me. The psychological | | accumulations prevent psychological pain as long as they are undis- | | turbed; that is I am a bundle of accumulations, experiences, which pre- | | vent any serious form of disturbance-and I do not want to be disturbed. | | Therefore I am afraid of anyone who disturbs them. Thus my fear is of | | the known, I am afraid of the accumulations, physical or psychological, | | that I have gathered as a means of warding off pain or preventing sor- | | row. ...Knowledge also helps to prevent pain. As medical knowledge helps | | to prevent physical pain, so beliefs help to prevent psychological pain, | | and that is why I am afraid of losing my beliefs, though I have no per- | | fect knowledge or concrete proof of the reality of such beliefs. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, November 14, 2030 (318) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[14]--[13]--[12]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | ONLY THAT WHICH DIES CAN RENEW ITSELF | | | | When we talk of a spiritual entity, we mean by that something which is | | not within the field of the mind, obviously. Now, is the "I" such a | | spiritual entity? If it is a spiritual entity, it must be beyond all | | time; therefore it cannot be reborn or continued. Thought cannot think | | about it because thought comes within the measure of time, thought is | | from yesterday, thought is a continuous movement, the response of the | | past; so thought is essentially a product of time. If thought can think | | about the "I", then it is part of time; therefore that "I" is not free | | of time, therefore it is not spiritual-which is obvious. So, the "I", | | the "you" is only a process of thought; and you want to know whether | | that process of thought, continuing apart from the physical body, is | | born again, is reincarnated in a physical form. Now go a little further. | | That which continues-can it ever discover the real, which is beyond time | | and measurement. That "I", that entity which is a thought-process-can it | | ever be new? If it cannot, then there must be an ending to thought. Is | | not anything that continues inherently destructive? That which has con- | | tinuity can never renew itself. As long as thought continues through | | memory, through desire, through experience, it can never renew itself; | | therefore, that which is continued cannot know the real. You may be re- | | born a thousand times, but you can never know the real for only that | | which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, November 15, 2030 (319) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[15]--[14]--[13]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O D I E W I T H O U T A R G U M E N T | | | | Do you know what it means to come into contact with death, to die with- | | out argument? Because death, when it comes, does not argue with you. To | | meet it, you have to die every day to everything: to your agony, to your | | loneliness, to the relationship you cling to; you have to die to your | | thought, to die to your habit, to die to your wife so that you can look | | at your wife anew; you have to die to your society so that you, as a hu- | | man being, are new, fresh, young, and you can look at it. But you cannot | | meet death, if you don't die every day. It is only when you die, that | | there is love. A mind that is frightened has no love-it has habits, it | | has sympathy, it can force itself to be kind and superficially consider- | | ate. But fear breeds sorrow, and sorrow is time as thought.So to end | | sorrow is to come into contact with death while living, by dying to your | | name, to your house, to your property, to your cause, so that you are | | fresh, young, clear, and you can see things as they are without any dis- | | tortion. That is what is going to take place when you die. But we have a | | limited death to the physical. We know very well logically, sanely, that | | the organism is going to come to an end. So we invent a life which we | | have lived of daily agony, daily insensitivity, the increase of problem- | | s, and its stupidity; that life we want to carry over, which we call the | | "soul"-which we say is the most sacred thing, a part of the divine; but | | it is still part of your thought and therefore it has nothing to do with | | divinity. It is your life!So one has to live every day dying-dying be- | | cause you are then in contact with life. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, November 16, 2030 (320) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[16]--[15]--[14]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I N D E A T H I S I M M O R T A L I T Y | | | | Surely, in ending there is renewal, is there not? It's only in death | | that a new thing comes into being. I am not giving you comfort. This is | | not something to be believed or thought about or intellectually examined | | and accepted, for then you will make it into another comfort, as you now | | believe in reincarnation or continuity in the hereafter, and so on. But | | the actual fact is that that which continues has no rebirth, no renewal. | | Therefore, in dying every day there is renewal, there is a rebirth. That | | is immortality. In death there is immortality-not the death of which you | | are afraid, but the death of previous conclusions, memories, experi- | | ences, with which you are identified as the 'me'. In the dying of the | | 'me' every minute there is eternity, there is immortality, there is a | | thing to be experienced-not to be speculated upon or lectured about, as | | you do about reincarnation and all that kind of stuff....When you are no | | longer afraid, because every minute there is an ending and therefore a | | renewal, then you are open to the unknown. Reality is the unknown. Death | | is also the unknown. But to call death beautiful, to say how marvellous | | it is because we shall continue in the hereafter and all that nonsense | | has no reality. What has reality is seeing death as it is-an ending; an | | ending in which there is renewal, a rebirth, not a continuity. For, that | | which continues, decays; and that which has the power to renew itself, | | is eternal. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, November 17, 2030 (321) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[17]--[16]--[15]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | REINCARNATION IS ESSENTIALLY EGOTISTIC | | | | You want me to give you an assurance that you will live another life, | | but in that there is no happiness or wisdom. The search for immortality | | through reincarnation is essentially egotistic, and therefore not true. | | Your search for immortality is only another form of the desire for the | | continuance of self-defensive reactions against life and intelligence. | | Such a craving can only lead to illusion. So what matters is, not | | whether there is reincarnation, but to realize complete fulfilment in | | the present. And you can do that only when your mind and heart are no | | longer protecting themselves against life. The mind is cunning and sub- | | tle in its self-defence, and it must discern for itself the illusory na- | | ture of self-protection. This means that you must think and act com- | | pletely anew. You must liberate yourself from the net of false values | | which environment has imposed upon you. There must be utter nakedness. | | Then there is immortality, reality. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, November 18, 2030 (322) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[18]--[17]--[16]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H A T I S R E I N C A R N A T I O N ? | | | | Let us find out what you mean by reincarnation-the truth of it, not what | | you like to believe, not what someone has told you, or what your teacher | | has said. Surely, it is the truth that liberates, not your own conclu- | | sion, your own opinion.... When you say, "I shall be reborn," you must | | know what the 'I' is. ... Is the 'I' a spiritual entity, is the 'I' | | something continuous, is the 'I' something independent of memory, expe- | | rience, knowledge? Either the 'I' is a spiritual entity, or it is merely | | a thought process. Either it is something out of time which we call | | spiritual, not measurable in terms of time, or it is within the field of | | time, the field of memory, thought. It cannot be something else. Let us | | find out if it is beyond the measurement of time. I hope you are follow- | | ing all this. Let us find out if the 'I' is in essence something spiri- | | tual. Now by "spiritual" we mean, do we not, something not capable of | | being conditioned, something that is not the projection of the human | | mind, something that is not within the field of thought, something that | | does not die. When we talk of a spiritual entity, we mean by that some- | | thing which is not within the field of the mind, obviously. Now, is the | | 'I' such a spiritual entity? If it is a spiritual entity, it must be be- | | yond all time; therefore it cannot be reborn or continued. ...That which | | has continuity can never renew itself. As long as thought continues | | through memory, through desire, through experience, it can never renew | | itself; therefore, that which is continued cannot know the real. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, November 19, 2030 (323) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[19]--[18]--[17]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I S T H E R E S U C H A T H I N G A S A S O U L ? | | | | So to understand this question of death, we must be rid of fear which | | invents the various theories of afterlife or immortality or reincarna- | | tion. So we say, those in the East say, that there is reincarnation, | | there is a rebirth, a constant renewal going on and on and on-the soul, | | the so-called soul. Now please listen carefully.Is there such a thing? | | We like to think there is such a thing, because it gives us pleasure, | | because that is something which we have set beyond thought, beyond word- | | s, beyond; it is something eternal, spiritual, that can never die, and | | so thought clings to it. But is there such a thing, as a soul, which is | | something beyond time, something beyond thought, something which is not | | invented by man, something which is beyond the nature of man, something | | which is not put together by the cunning mind? Because the mind sees | | such enormous uncertainty, confusion, nothing permanent in life-nothing. | | Your relationship to your wife, your husband, your job-nothing is perma- | | nent. And so the mind invents a something which is permanent, which it | | calls the soul. But since the mind can think about it, thought can think | | about it; as thought can think about it, it is still within the field of | | time-naturally. If I can think about something, it is part of my | | thought. And my thought is the result of time, of experience, of knowl- | | edge. So, the soul is still within the field of time...So the idea of a | | continuity of a soul which will be reborn over and over and over again | | has no meaning because it is the invention of a mind that is frightened, | | of a mind that wants, that seeks a duration through permanency, that | | wants certainty, because in that there is hope. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, November 20, 2030 (324) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[20]--[19]--[18]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H A T D O Y O U M E A N B Y K A R M A ? | | | | Karma implies, does it not?, cause and effect-action based on cause, | | producing a certain effect; action born out of conditioning, producing | | further results. So karma implies cause and effect. And are cause and | | effect static, are cause and effect ever fixed? Does not effect become | | cause also? So there is no fixed cause or fixed effect. Today is a re- | | sult of yesterday, is it not? Today is the outcome of yesterday, chrono- | | logically as well as psychologically; and today is the cause of tomor- | | row. So cause is effect, and effect becomes cause-it is one continuous | | movement; there is no fixed cause or fixed effect. If there were a fixed | | cause and a fixed effect, there would be specialization; and is not spe- | | cialization death? Any species that specializes obviously comes to an | | end. The greatness of man is that he cannot specialize. He may special- | | ize technically, but in structure he cannot specialize. An acorn seed is | | specialized - it cannot be anything but what it is. But the human being | | does not end completely. There is the possibility of constant renewal; | | he is not limited by specialization. As long as we regard the cause, the | | background, the conditioning, as unrelated to the effect, there must be | | conflict between thought and the background. So the problem is much more | | complex than whether to believe in reincarnation or not, because the | | question is how to act, not whether you believe in reincarnation or in | | karma. That is absolutely irrelevant. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, November 21, 2030 (325) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[21]--[20]--[19]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A C T I O N B A S E D O N I D E A | | | | Can action ever bring about freedom from this chain of cause-effect? I | | have done something in the past; I have had experience, which obviously | | conditions my response today; and today's response conditions tomorrow. | | That is the whole process of karma, cause and effect; and obviously, | | though it may temporarily give pleasure, such a process of cause and ef- | | fect ultimately leads to pain. That is the real crux of the matter: Can | | thought be free? Thought, action, that is free does not produce pain, | | does not bring about conditioning. That is the vital point of this whole | | question. So, can there be action unrelated to the past? Can there be | | action not based on idea? Idea is the continuation of yesterday in a | | modified form, and that continuation will condition tomorrow, which | | means action based on idea can never be free. As long as action is based | | on idea, it will inevitably produce further conflict. Can there be ac- | | tion unrelated to the past?Can there be action without the burden of ex- | | perience, the knowledge of yesterday? As long as action is the outcome | | of the past, action can never be free, and only in freedom can you dis- | | cover what is true. What happens is that, as the mind is not free, it | | cannot act; it can only react, and reaction is the basis of our action. | | Our action is not action but merely the continuation of reaction because | | it is the outcome of memory, of experience, of yesterday's response. So, | | the question is, can the mind be free from its conditioning? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, November 22, 2030 (326) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[22]--[21]--[20]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O V E I S N O T P L E A S U R E | | | | Without the understanding of pleasure you will never be able to under- | | stand love. Love is not pleasure. Love is something entirely different. | | And to understand pleasure, as I said, you have to learn about it. Now | | for most of us, for every human being, sex is a problem. Why? Listen to | | this very carefully. Because you are not able to solve it, you run away | | from it. The sannyasi runs away from it by taking a vow of celibacy, by | | denying. Please see what happens to such a mind. By denying something | | which is a part of your whole structure-the glands and so on-by sup- | | pressing it, you have made yourself arid, and there is a constant battle | | going on within yourself.As we were saying, we have only two ways of | | meeting any problem, apparently: either suppressing it or running away | | from it. Suppressing it is really the same thing as running away from | | it. And we have a whole network of escapes-very intricate, intellectual, | | emotional-and ordinary everyday activity. There are various forms of | | escapes into which we will not go for the moment. But we have this prob- | | lem. The sannyasi escapes from it in one way, but he has not resolved | | it; he has suppressed it by taking a vow, and the whole problem is boil- | | ing in him. He may put on the outward robe of simplicity, but this be- | | comes an extraordinary issue for him too, as it is for the man who lives | | an ordinary life. How do you solve that problem? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, November 23, 2030 (327) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[23]--[22]--[21]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O V E I S N O T C U L T I V A T E D | | | | Love is not to be cultivated. Love cannot be divided into divine and | | physical; it is only love-not that you love many or the one. That again | | is an absurd question to ask: "Do you love all?" You know, a flower that | | has perfume is not concerned who comes to smell it, or who turns his | | back upon it. So is love. Love is not a memory. Love is not a thing of | | the mind or the intellect. But it comes into being naturally as compas- | | sion, when this whole problem of existence-as fear, greed, envy, de- | | spair, hope-has been understood and resolved. An ambitious man cannot | | love. A man who is attached to his family has no love. Nor has jealousy | | anything to do with love. When you say, "I love my wife," you really do | | not mean it, because the next moment you are jealous of her.Love implies | | great freedom-not to do what you like. But love comes only when the mind | | is very quiet, disinterested, not self-centred. These are not ideals. If | | you have no love, do what you will-go after all the gods on earth, do | | all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write | | books, write poems-you are a dead human being. And without love your | | problems will increase, multiply endlessly. And with love, do what you | | will, there is no risk; there is no conflict. Then love is the essence | | of virtue. And a mind that is not in a state of love, is not a religious | | mind at all. And it is only the religious mind that is freed from prob- | | lems, and that knows the beauty of love and trust | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, November 24, 2030 (328) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[24]--[23]--[22]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O V E W I T H O U T I N C E N T I V E | | | | What is love without motive? Can there be love without any incentive, | | without wanting something for oneself out of love? Can there be love in | | which there is no sense of being wounded when love is not returned? If I | | offer you my friendship and you turn away, am I not hurt? Is that feel- | | ing of being hurt the outcome of friendship, of generosity, of sympathy? | | Surely, as long as I feel hurt, as long as there is fear, as long as I | | help you hoping that you may help me-which is called service- there is | | no love.If you understand this, the answer is there. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, November 25, 2030 (329) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[25]--[24]--[23]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L O V E I S D A N G E R O U S | | | | How can man live without love? We can only exist, and existence without | | love is control, confusion, and pain-and that is what most of us are | | creating. We organize for existence and we accept conflict as inevitable | | because our existence is a ceaseless demand for power. Surely, when we | | love, organization has its own place, its right place; but without love, | | organization becomes a nightmare, merely mechanical and efficient, like | | the army; but as modern society is based on mere efficiency, we have to | | have armies-and the purpose of an army is to create war. Even in so-- | | called peace, the more intellectually efficient we are, the more ruth- | | less, the more brutal, the more callous we become. That is why there is | | confusion in the world, why bureaucracy is more and more powerful, why | | more and more governments are becoming totalitarian. We submit to all | | this as being inevitable because we live in our brains and not in our | | hearts, and therefore love does not exist. Love is the most dangerous | | and uncertain element in life; and because we do not want to be uncer- | | tain, because we do not want to be in danger, we live in the mind. A man | | who loves is dangerous, and we do not want to live dangerously; we want | | to live efficiently, we want to live merely in the framework of organi- | | zation because we think organizations are going to bring order and peace | | in the world. Organizations have never brought order and peace. Only | | love, only goodwill, only mercy can bring order and peace, ultimately | | and therefore now. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, November 26, 2030 (330) ☺ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[26]--[25]--[24]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | W H A T I S Y O U R R E A C T I O N ? | | | | When you observe those poor women carrying a heavy load to the market, | | or watch the peasant children playing in the mud with very little else | | to play with, [children] who will not have the education that you are | | getting, who have no proper home, no cleanliness, insufficient clothing, | | inadequate food-when you observe all that, what is your reaction? It is | | very important to find out for yourself what your reaction is. I will | | tell you what mine was.Those children have no proper place to sleep; the | | father and the mother are occupied all day long, with never a holiday; | | the children never know what it is to be loved, to be cared for; the | | parents never sit down with them and tell them stories about the beauty | | of the earth and the heavens. And what kind of society is it that has | | produced these circumstances-where there are immensely rich people who | | have everything on earth they want, and at the same time there are boys | | and girls who have nothing? What kind of society is it, and how has it | | come into being? You may revolutionize, break the pattern of this soci- | | ety, but in the very breaking of it a new one is born which is again the | | same thing in another form-the commissars with their special houses in | | the country, the privileges, the uniforms, and so on down the line. This | | has happened after every revolution, the French, the Russian and the | | Chinese. And is it possible to create a society in which all this cor- | | ruption and misery does not exist? It can be created only when you and I | | as individuals break away from the collective, when we are free of ambi- | | tion and know what it means to love. That was my whole reaction, in a | | flash. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, November 27, 2030 (331) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[27]--[26]--[25]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C O M P A S S I O N I S N O T T H E W O R D | | | | Thought cannot, by any means whatsoever, cultivate compassion. I am not | | using that word compassion to mean the opposite, the antithesis of hate | | or violence. But unless each one of us has a deep sense of compassion, | | we shall become more and more brutal, inhuman to each other. We shall | | have mechanical, computer-like minds which have merely been trained to | | perform certain functions; we shall go on seeking security, both physi- | | cal and psychological, and we shall miss the extraordinary depth and | | beauty, the whole significance of life.By compassion I do not mean a | | thing to be acquired. Compassion is not the word, which is merely of the | | past, but something which is of the active present; it is the verb and | | not the word, the name, or the noun. There is a difference between the | | verb and the word. The verb is of the active present, whereas the word | | is always of the past and therefore static. You may give vitality or | | movement to the name, to the word, but it is not the same as the verb | | which is actively present....Compassion is not sentiment; it is not this | | woolly sympathy or empathy. Compassion is not something which you can | | cultivate through thought, through discipline, control, suppression, nor | | by being kind, polite, gentle, and all the rest of it. Compassion comes | | into being only when thought has come to an end at its very root. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, November 28, 2030 (332) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[28]--[27]--[26]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C O M P A S S I O N A N D G O O D N E S S | | | | Can compassion, that sense of goodness, that feeling of the sacredness | | of life about which we were talking last time we met-can that feeling be | | brought into being through compulsion? Surely, when there is compulsion | | in any form, when there is propaganda or moralizing, there is no compas- | | sion, nor is there compassion when change is brought about merely | | through seeing the necessity of meeting the technological challenge in | | such a way that human beings will remain human beings and not become ma- | | chines. So there must be a change without any causation. A change that | | is brought about through causation is not compassion; it is merely a | | thing of the market place. So that is one problem.Another problem is: if | | I change, how will it affect society? Or am I not concerned with that at | | all? Because the vast majority of people are not interested in what we | | are talking about-nor are you if you listen out of curiosity or some | | kind of impulse, and pass by. The machines are progressing so rapidly | | that most human beings are merely pushed along and are not capable of | | meeting life with the enrichment of love, with compassion, with deep | | thought. And if I change, how will it affect society, which is my rela- | | tionship with you? Society is not some extraordinary mythical entity; it | | is our relationship with each other, and if two or three of us change, | | how will it affect the rest of the world? Or is there a way of affecting | | the total mind of man?That is, is there a process by which the individu- | | al who is changed can touch the unconscious of man? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, November 29, 2030 (333) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[29]--[28]--[27]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T R A N S M I T T I N G C O M P A S S I O N | | | | If I am concerned with compassion, ... with love, with the real feeling | | of something sacred, then how is that feeling to be transmitted? Please | | follow this. If I transmit it through the microphone, through the ma- | | chinery of propaganda, and thereby convince another, his heart will | | still be empty. The flame of ideology will operate, and he will merely | | repeat, as you are all repeating, that we must be kind, good, free-all | | the nonsense that the politicians, the socialists, and the rest of them | | talk. So, seeing that any form of compulsion, however subtle, does not | | bring this beauty, this flowering of goodness, of compassion, what is | | the individual to do?...What is the relationship between the man who has | | this sense of compassion, and the man whose mind is entrenched in the | | collective, in the traditional? How are we to find the relationship be- | | tween these two, not theoretically, but actually?...That which conforms | | can never flower in goodness. There must be freedom, and freedom comes | | only when you understand the whole problem of envy, greed, ambition, and | | the desire for power. It is freedom from those things that allows the | | extraordinary thing called character to flower. Such a man has compas- | | sion, he knows what it is to love-not the man who merely repeats a lot | | of words about morality.So the flowering of goodness does not lie within | | society, because society in itself is always corrupt. Only the man who | | understands the whole structure and process of society, and is freeing | | himself from it, has character, and he alone can flower in goodness. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, November 30, 2030 (334) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ +---[30]--[29]--[28]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | C O M E T O I T E M P T Y H A N D E D | | | | Compassion is not hard to come by when the heart is not filled with the | | cunning things of the mind. It is the mind with its demands and fears, | | its attachments and denials, its determinations and urges, that destroys | | love. And how difficult it is to be simple about all this! You don't | | need philosophies and doctrines to be gentle and kind. The efficient and | | the powerful of the land will organize to feed and clothe the people, to | | provide them with shelter and medical care. This is inevitable with the | | rapid increase of production; it is the function of well-organized gov- | | ernment and a balanced society. But organization does not give the gen- | | erosity of the heart and hand. Generosity comes from quite a different | | source, a source beyond all measure. Ambition and envy destroy it as | | surely as fire burns. This source must be touched, but one must come to | | it empty-handed, without prayer, without sacrifice. Books cannot teach | | nor can any guru lead to this source. It cannot be reached through the | | cultivation of virtue, though virtue is necessary, nor through capacity | | and obedience. When the mind is serene, without any movement, it is | | there. Serenity is without motive, without the urge for the more. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ D-E-C-E-M-B-E-R 2 0 3 0 :._________M_O_O_N_________.: --+--+--+--+--+--+-- -----+-----+-----+------- MO TU WE TH FR SA SU | NM FQ FM LQ | --+--+--+--+--+--+-- | 25[☺] 02[◑] 10[☻] 17[☽] | 01 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 __[♐SAGITTARIUS]__/ 16 17 18 19 20[21]22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 / [♑CAPRICORN] Monthly Goals: Sunday, December 01, 2030 (335) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | DEC/ JAN/ MAR/ MAR/ +---[31]--[30]--[01]--[31] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A L O N E H A S G R E A T B E A U T Y | | | | I do not know if you have ever been lonely; when you suddenly realize | | that you have no relationship with anybody-not an intellectual realiza- | | tion but a factual realization...and you are completely isolated. Every | | form of thought and emotion is blocked; you cannot turn anywhere; there | | is nobody to turn to; the gods, the angels, have all gone beyond the | | clouds and, as the clouds vanish they have also vanished; you are com- | | pletely lonely-I will not use the word alone.Alone has quite a different | | meaning; alone has beauty. To be alone means something entirely differ- | | ent. And you must be alone. When man frees himself from the social | | structure of greed, envy, ambition, arrogance, achievement, status-then | | he frees himself from those, then he is completely alone. That is quite | | a different thing. Then there is great beauty, the feeling of great en- | | ergy. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, December 02, 2030 (336) ◑ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ JAN/ MAR/ APR/ +---[01]--[31]--[02]--[01] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A L O N E N E S S I S N O T L O N E L I N E S S | | | | Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves | | and our neighbours through nationalism, through race, caste, and | | class-which again breeds isolation, loneliness.Now a mind that is caught | | in loneliness, in this state of isolation, can never possibly understand | | what religion is. It can believe, it can have certain theories, concept- | | s, formulas, it can try to identify itself with that which it calls God; | | but religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any be- | | lief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The s- | | tate of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to un- | | derstand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be ap- | | proached through total aloneness. Only when the mind is completely alone | | can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.Aloneness is ob- | | viously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely | | to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands | | extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding. To be completely | | alone implies that the mind is free of every kind of influence and is | | therefore uncontaminated by society; and it must be alone to understand | | what is religion-which is to find out for oneself whether there is some- | | thing immortal, beyond time. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, December 03, 2030 (337) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[02]--[01]--[03]--[02] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | K N O W I N G L O N E L I N E S S | | | | Loneliness is entirely different from aloneness. That loneliness must be | | passed to be alone. Loneliness is not comparable with aloneness. The man | | who knows loneliness can never know that which is alone. Are you in that | | state of aloneness? Our minds are not integrated to be alone. The very | | process of the mind is separative. And that which separates knows lone- | | liness.But aloneness is not separative. It is something which is not the | | many, which is not influenced by the many, which is not the result of | | the many, which is not put together as the mind is; the mind is of the | | many. Mind is not an entity that is alone, being put together, brought | | together, manufactured through centuries. Mind can never be alone. Mind | | can never know aloneness. But being aware of the loneliness when going | | through it, there comes into being that aloneness. Then only can there | | be that which is immeasurable. Unfortunately most of us seek dependence. | | We want companions, we want friends, we want to live in a state of sepa- | | ration, in a state which brings about conflict. That which is alone can | | never be in a state of conflict. But mind can never perceive that, can | | never understand that, it can only know loneliness. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, December 04, 2030 (338) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[03]--[02]--[04]--[03] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | ONLY IN ALONENESS IS THERE INNOCENCE | | | | Most of us are never alone. You may withdraw into the mountains and live | | as a recluse, but when you are physically by yourself, you will have | | with you all your ideas, your experiences, your traditions, your knowl- | | edge of what has been. the Christian monk in a monastery cell is not | | alone; he is with his conceptual Jesus, with his theology, with the be- | | liefs and dogmas of his particular conditioning. Similarly, the sannyasi | | in India who withdraws from the world and lives in isolation is not | | alone, for he too lives with his memories.I am talking of an aloneness | | in which the mind is totally free from the past, and only such a mind is | | virtuous, for only in this aloneness is there innocence. Perhaps you | | will say, "That is too much to ask. One cannot live like that in this | | chaotic world, where one has to go to the office every day, earn a | | livelihood, bear children, endure the nagging of one's wife or husband, | | and all the rest of it." But I think what is being said is directly re- | | lated to everyday life and action; otherwise, it has no value at all. | | You see, out of this aloneness comes a virtue which is virile and which | | brings an extraordinary sense of purity and gentleness. It doesn't mat- | | ter if one makes mistakes; that is of very little importance. What mat- | | ters is to have this feeling of being completely alone, uncontaminated, | | for it is only such a mind that can know or be aware of that which is | | beyond the word, beyond the name, beyond all the projections of imagina- | | tion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, December 05, 2030 (339) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[04]--[03]--[05]--[04] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E O N E W H O I S A L O N E I S I N N O C E N T | | | | One of the factors of sorrow is the extraordinary loneliness of man. You | | may have companions, you may have gods, you may have a great deal of | | knowledge, you may be extraordinarily active socially, talking endless | | gossip about politics-and most politicians gossip anyhow-and still this | | loneliness remains. Therefore, man seeks to find significance in life | | and invents a significance, a meaning. But the loneliness still remains. | | So can you look at it without any comparison, just see it as it is, | | without trying to run away from it, without trying to cover it up, or to | | escape from it? Then you will see that loneliness becomes something en- | | tirely different.We are not alone. We are the result of a thousand in- | | fluences, a thousand conditionings, psychological inheritances, propa- | | ganda, culture. We are not alone, and therefore we are second-hand human | | beings. When one is alone, totally alone, neither belonging to any fami- | | ly though one may have a family, nor belonging to any nation, to any | | culture, to any particular commitment, there is the sense of being an | | outsider-outsider to every form of thought, action, family, nation. And | | it is only the one who is completely alone who is innocent. It is this | | innocency that frees the mind from sorrow. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, December 06, 2030 (340) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[05]--[04]--[06]--[05] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | CREATE A NEW WORLD, A NEW CIVILIZATION | | | | If you have to create a new world, a new civilization, a new art, every- | | thing new, not contaminated by tradition, by fear, by ambitions, if you | | have to create something anonymous which is yours and mine, a new soci- | | ety, together, in which there is not you and me but an "ourness," must | | there not be a mind that is completely anonymous, therefore alone? This | | implies, does it not, that there must be a revolt against conformity, a | | revolt against respectability, because the respectable man is the me- | | diocre man because he wants something, he is dependent on influence for | | his happiness, on what his neighbour thinks, on what his guru thinks, on | | what the Bhagavad-Gita or the Upanishads or the Bible or the Christ | | says. His mind is never alone. He never walks alone, but he always walks | | with a companion, the companion of this ideas.Is it not important to | | find out, to see, the whole significance of interference, of influence, | | the establishment of the "me," which is the contradiction of the anony- | | mous? Seeing the whole of that, does not the question inevitably arise: | | Is it possible immediately to bring about that state of mind which is | | not influenced, which cannot be influenced by its own experience or by | | the experience of others, a mind which is incorruptible, which is alone? | | Then only is there a possibility of bringing about a different world, a | | different culture, a different society in which happiness is possible. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, December 07, 2030 (341) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[06]--[05]--[07]--[06] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A L O N E N E S S I N W H I C H T H E R E I S N O F E A R | | | | It is only when the mind is capable of shedding all influences, all in- | | terferences, of being completely alone... there is creativeness.In the | | world, more and more technique is being developed-the technique of how | | to influence people through propaganda, through compulsion, through imi- | | tation, through examples, through idolatry, through the worship of the | | hero. There are innumerable books written on how to do a thing, how to | | think efficiently, how to build a house, how to put machinery together; | | so gradually we are losing initiative, the initiative to think out some- | | thing original for ourselves. In our education, in our relationship with | | government, through various means, we are being influenced to conform, | | to imitate. And when we allow one influence to persuade us to a particu- | | lar attitude or action, naturally we create resistance to other influ- | | ences. In that very process of creating a resistance to another influ- | | ence, are we not succumbing to it negatively?Should not the mind always | | be in revolt so as to understand the influences that are always imping- | | ing, interfering, controlling, shaping? Is it not one of the factors of | | the mediocre mind that it is always fearful and, being in a state of | | confusion, it wants order, it wants consistency, it wants a form, a | | shape by which it can be guided, controlled, and yet these forms, these | | various influences create contradictions in the individual, create con- | | fusion in the individual. ...Any choice between influences is surely | | still a state of mediocrity....Must not the mind have the capacity to | | fathom-not to imitate, not to be shaped-and to be without fear? Should | | not such a mind be alone and therefore creative? That creativeness is | | not yours or mine, it is anonymous. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, December 08, 2030 (342) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[07]--[06]--[08]--[07] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E G I N H E R E | | | | A religious man does not seek God. The religious man is concerned with | | the transformation of society which is himself. The religious man is not | | the man that does innumerable rituals, follows traditions, lives in a | | dead, past culture, explaining endlessly the Gita or the Bible, endless- | | ly chanting, or taking sannyasa-that is not a religious man; such a man | | is escaping from facts. The religious man is concerned totally and com- | | pletely with the understanding of society which is himself. He is not | | separate from society. Bringing about in himself a complete, total muta- | | tion means complete cessation of greed, envy, ambition; and therefore he | | is not dependent on circumstances, though he is the result of circum- | | stance-the food he eats, the books he reads, the cinemas he goes to, the | | religious dogmas, beliefs, rituals, and all that business. He is respon- | | sible, and therefore the religious man must understand himself, who is | | the product of society which he himself has created. Therefore to find | | reality he must begin here, not in a temple, not in an image-whether the | | image is graven by the hand or by the mind. Otherwise how can he find | | something totally new, a new state? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, December 09, 2030 (343) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[08]--[07]--[09]--[08] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E R E L I G I O U S M I N D I S E X P L O S I V E | | | | Can we discover for ourselves what is the religious mind? The scientist | | in his laboratory is really a scientist; he is not persuaded by his na- | | tionalism, by his fears, by his vanities, ambitions, and local demands; | | there, he is merely investigating. But outside the laboratory, he is | | like anybody else with his prejudices, with his ambitions, with his na- | | tionality, with his vanities, with his jealousies, and all the rest of | | it. Such a mind cannot approach the religious mind. The religious mind | | does not function from a centre of authority, whether it is accumulated | | knowledge as tradition, or it is experience-which is really the continu- | | ation of tradition, the continuation of conditioning. The religious | | spirit does not think in terms of time, the immediate results, the imme- | | diate reformation within the pattern of society.... We said the reli- | | gious mind is not a ritualistic mind; it does not belong to any church, | | to any group, to any pattern of thinking. The religious mind is the mind | | that has entered into the unknown, and you can not come to the unknown | | except by jumping; you cannot carefully calculate and enter the unknown. | | The religious mind is the real revolutionary mind, and the revolutionary | | mind is not a reaction to what has been. The religious mind is really | | explosive, creative-not in the accepted sense of the word creative, as | | in a poem, decoration, or building, as in architecture, music, poetry, | | and all the rest of it-it is in a state of creation. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, December 10, 2030 (344) ☻ ♐ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[09]--[08]--[10]--[09] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | P R A Y E R I S A C O M P L E X A F F A I R | | | | Like all deep human problems, prayer is a complex affair and not to be | | rushed at; it needs patience, careful and tolerant probing, and one can- | | not demand definite conclusions and decisions. Without understanding | | himself, he who prays may through his very prayer be led to self-delu- | | sion. We sometimes hear people say, and several have told me, that when | | they pray to what they call God for worldly things, their prayers are | | often granted. If they have faith, and depending upon the intensity of | | their prayer, what they seek-health, comfort, worldly possessions-they | | eventually get. If one indulges in petitionary prayer it brings its own | | reward, the thing asked for is often granted, and this further strength- | | ens supplications. Then there is the prayer, not for things or for peo- | | ple, but to experience reality, God, which is also frequently answered; | | and there are still other forms of petitionary prayer, more subtle and | | devious, but nevertheless supplicating, begging and offering. All such | | prayers have their own reward, they bring their own experiences; but do | | they lead to the realization of the ultimate reality?Are we not the re- | | sult of the past, and are we not therefore related to the enormous | | reservoir of greed and hate, with their opposites? Surely, when we make | | an appeal, or offer a petitionary prayer, we are calling upon this | | reservoir of accumulated greed, and so on, which does being its own re- | | ward, and has its price.... Does supplication to another, to something | | outside, bring about the understanding of truth? | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, December 11, 2030 (345) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[10]--[09]--[11]--[10] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E A N S W E R T O P R A Y E R | | | | Prayer, which is a supplication, a petition, can never find that reality | | which is not the outcome of a demand. We demand, supplicate, pray, only | | when we are in confusion, in sorrow, and not understanding that confu- | | sion and sorrow, we turn to somebody else. The answer to prayer is our | | own projection; in one way or another it is always satisfactory, grati- | | fying, otherwise we would reject it. So, when one has learned the trick | | of quieting the mind through repetition, one keeps on with that habit, | | but the answer to supplication must obviously be shaped according to the | | desire of the person who supplicates.Now, prayer, supplication, peti- | | tion, can never uncover that which is not the projection of the mind. To | | find that which is not the fabrication of the mind, the mind must be | | quiet-not made quiet by the repetition of words, which is self-hypnosis, | | nor by any other means of inducing the mind to be still.Stillness that | | is induced, enforced, is not stillness at all. It is like putting a | | child in the corner-superficially he may be quiet, but inwardly he is | | boiling. So, a mind that is made quiet by discipline is never really | | quiet, and stillness that is induced can never uncover that creative s- | | tate in which reality comes into being. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, December 12, 2030 (346) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[11]--[10]--[12]--[11] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I S R E L I G I O N A M A T T E R O F B E L I E F ? | | | | Religion as we generally know it or acknowledge it, is a series of be- | | liefs, of dogmas, of rituals, of superstitions, of worship of idols, of | | charms and gurus that will lead you to what you want as an ultimate | | goal. The ultimate truth is your projection, that is what you want, | | which will make you happy, which will give a certainty of the deathless | | state. So, the mind caught in all this creates a religion, a religion of | | dogmas, of priest-craft, of superstitions and idol-worship-and in that, | | you are caught, and the mind stagnates. Is that religion? Is religion a | | matter of belief, a matter of knowledge of other people's experiences | | and assertions? Or is religion merely the following of morality? You | | know it is comparatively easy to be moral-to do this and not to do that. | | Because it is easy, you can imitate a moral system. Behind that morali- | | ty, lurks the self, growing, expanding, aggressive, dominating. But is | | that religion?You have to find out what truth is because that is the on- | | ly thing that matters, not whether you are rich or poor, not whether you | | are happily married and have children, because they all come to an end, | | there is always death. So, without any form of belief, you must find | | out; you must have the vigour, the self-reliance, the initiative, so | | that for yourself you know what truth is, what God is. Belief will not | | give you anything; belief only corrupts, binds, darkens. The mind can | | only be free through vigour, through self-reliance. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, December 13, 2030 (347) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[12]--[11]--[13]--[12] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I S T H E R E T R U T H I N R E L I G I O N S ? | | | | The question is: Is there not truth in religions, in theories, in ideal- | | s, in beliefs? Let us examine. What do we mean by religion? Surely, not | | organized religion, not Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity-which are | | all organized beliefs with their propaganda, conversion, proselytism, | | compulsion, and so on. Is there any truth in organized religion? It may | | engulf, enmesh truth, but the organized religion itself is not true. | | Therefore, organized religion is false, it separates man from man. You | | are a Muslim, I am a Hindu, another is a Christian or a Buddhist-and we | | are wrangling, butchering each other. Is there any truth in that? We are | | not discussing religion as the pursuit of truth, but we are considering | | if there is any truth in organized religion. We are so conditioned by | | organized religion to think there is truth in it that we have come to | | believe that by calling oneself a Hindu, one is somebody, or one will | | find God. How absurd, sir; to find God, to find reality, there must be | | virtue. Virtue is freedom, and only through freedom can truth be discov- | | ered-not when you are caught in the hands of organized religion, with | | its beliefs. And is there any truth in theories, in ideals, in beliefs? | | Why do you have beliefs? Obviously, because beliefs give you security, | | comfort, safety, a guide. In yourself you are frightened, you want to be | | protected, you want to lean on somebody, and therefore you create the | | ideal, which prevents you from understanding that which is. Therefore, | | an ideal becomes a hindrance to action. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, December 14, 2030 (348) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[13]--[12]--[14]--[13] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T O C L I M B H I G H O N E M U S T B E G I N L O W | | | | Religious organizations become as fixed and as rigid as the thoughts of | | those who belong to them. Life is a constant change, a continual becom- | | ing, a ceaseless revolution, and because an organization can never be | | pliable, it stands in the way of change; it becomes reactionary to pro- | | tect itself. The search for truth is individual, not congregational. To | | commune with the real there must be aloneness, not isolation but freedom | | from all influence and opinion. Organizations of thought inevitably be- | | come hindrances to thought.As you yourself are aware, the greed for pow- | | er is almost inexhaustible in a so-called spiritual organization; this | | greed is covered over by all kinds of sweet and official-sounding words, | | but the canker of avariciousness, pride and antagonism is nourished and | | shared. From this grow conflict, intolerance, sectarianism and other ug- | | ly manifestations.Would it not be wiser to have small informed groups of | | twenty or twenty-five persons, without dues or membership, meeting where | | it is convenient to discuss gently the approach to reality? To prevent | | any group from becoming exclusive, each member could from time to time | | encourage and perhaps join another small group; thus it would be exten- | | sive, not narrow and parochial.To climb high one must begin low. Out of | | this small beginning one may help to create a more sane and happy world. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, December 15, 2030 (349) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[14]--[13]--[15]--[14] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | Y O U R G O D S A R E D I V I D I N G Y O U | | | | What is happening in the world? You have a Christian God, Hindu Gods, | | Mohammedans with their particular conception of God-each little sect | | with their particular truth; and all these truths are becoming like so | | many diseases in the world, separating people. These truths, in the | | hands of the few, are becoming the means of exploitation. You go to | | each, one after the other, tasting them all, because you begin to lose | | all sense of discrimination, because you are suffering and you want a | | remedy, and you accept any remedy that is offered by any sect, whether | | Christian, Hindu, or any other sect. So, what is happening? Your Gods | | are dividing you, your beliefs in God are dividing you and yet you talk | | about the brotherhood of man, unity in God, and at the same time deny | | the very thing that you want to find out, because you cling to these be- | | liefs as the most potent means of destroying limitation, whereas they | | but intensify it. These things are so obvious. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, December 16, 2030 (350) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[15]--[14]--[16]--[15] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T R U E R E L I G I O N | | | | Do you know what religion is? It is not the chant, it is not in the per- | | formance of puja, or any other ritual, it is not in the worship of tin | | gods or stone images, it is not in the temples and churches, it is not | | in the reading of the Bible or the Gita, it is not in the repeating of a | | sacred name or in the following of some other superstition invented by | | men. None of this is religion.Religion is the feeling of goodness that | | love which is like the river living moving everlastingly. In that state | | you will find there comes a moment when there is no longer any search at | | all; and this ending of search is the beginning of something totally d- | | ifferent. The search for God, for truth, the feeling of being completely | | good-not the cultivation of goodness, of humility, but the seeking out | | of something beyond the inventions and tricks of the mind, which means | | having a feeling for that something, living in it, being it-that is true | | religion. But you can do that only when you leave the pool you have dug | | for yourself and go out into the river of life. Then life has an aston- | | ishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care | | on your part. Life carries you where it will because you are part of it- | | self; then there is no problem of security, of what people say or don't | | say, and that is the beauty of life. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, December 17, 2030 (351) ☽ TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[16]--[15]--[17]--[16] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A M A R V E L L O U S E S C A P E | | | | What is the impetus behind the search for God, and is that search real? | | For most of us, it is an escape from actuality. So, we must be very | | clear in ourselves whether this search after God is an escape, or | | whether it is a search for truth in everything-truth in our relation- | | ships, truth in the value of things, truth in ideas. If we are seeking | | God merely because we are tired of this world and its miseries, then it | | is an escape. Then we create God, and therefore it is not God. The God | | of the temples, of the books, is not God, obviously-it is a marvellous | | escape. But if we try to find the truth, not in one exclusive set of ac- | | tions, but in all our actions, ideas and relationships, if we seek the | | right evaluation of food, clothing, and shelter, then because our minds | | are capable of clarity and understanding, when we seek reality we shall | | find it. It will not then be an escape. But if we are confused with re- | | gard to the things of the world-food, clothing, shelter, relationship, | | and ideas-how can we find reality? We can only invent reality. So, God, | | truth, or reality, is not to be known by a mind that is confused, condi- | | tioned, limited. How can such a mind think of reality or God? It has | | first to decondition itself. It has to free itself from its own limita- | | tions, and only then can it know what God is, obviously not before. | | Reality is the unknown, and that which is known is not the real. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, December 18, 2030 (352) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[17]--[16]--[18]--[17] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | Y O U R G O D I S N O T G O D | | | | A man who believes in God can never find God. If you are open to reali- | | ty, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, | | there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-pro- | | tection, and only a petty mind can believe in God. Look at the belief of | | the aviators during the war who said God was their companion as they | | were dropping bombs! So you believe in God when you kill, when you are | | exploiting people. You worship God and go on ruthlessly extorting money, | | supporting the army-yet you say you believe in mercy, compassion, kind- | | liness. ...As long as belief exists, there can never be the unknown; you | | cannot think about the unknown, thought cannot measure it. The mind is | | the product of the past, it is the result of yesterday, and can such a | | mind be open to the unknown? It can only project an image, but that pro- | | jection is not real; so your god is not God-it is an image of your own | | making, an image of your own gratification. There can be reality only | | when the mind understands the total process of itself and comes to an | | end. When the mind is completely empty-only then is it capable of re- | | ceiving the unknown. The mind is not purged until it understands the | | content of relationship-its relationship with property, with people-un- | | til it has established the right relationship with everything. Until it | | understands the whole process of conflict in relationship, the mind can- | | not be free. Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, | | not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still-only then | | that which is eternal and timeless comes into being. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, December 19, 2030 (353) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[18]--[17]--[19]--[18] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E R E L I G I O U S M A N | | | | What is the state of the mind which says, "I do not know whether there | | is God, whether there is love," that is, when there is no response of | | memory? Please don't immediately answer the question to yourselves be- | | cause if you do, your answer will be merely the recognition of what you | | think it should or should not be. If you say, "It is a state of nega- | | tion," you are comparing it with something that you already know; there- | | fore, that state in which you say, "I do not know" is non-existent....So | | the mind that is capable of saying, "I do not know," is in the only s- | | tate in which anything can be discovered. But the man who says, "I | | know," the man you has studied infinitely the varieties of human experi- | | ence and whose mind is burdened with information, with encyclopedic | | knowledge, can he ever experience something which is not to be accumu- | | lated? He will find it extremely hard. When the mind totally puts aside | | all the knowledge that it has acquired, when for it there are no Bud- | | dhas, no Christs, no Masters, no teachers, no religions, no quotations; | | when the mind is completely alone, uncontaminated, which means that the | | movement of the known has come to an end-it is only then that there is a | | possibility of a tremendous revolution, a fundamental change.... The re- | | ligious man is he who does not belong to any religion, to any nation, to | | any race, who is inwardly completely alone, in a state of not-knowing, | | and for him the blessing of the sacred comes into being. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, December 20, 2030 (354) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[19]--[18]--[20]--[19] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | I D O N O T K N O W | | | | If one can really come to that state of saying, "I do not know," it | | indicates an extraordinary sense of humility; there is no arrogance of | | knowledge; there is no self-assertive answer to make an impression. When | | you can actually say, "I do not know," which very few are capable of | | saying, then in that state all fear ceases because all sense of recogni- | | tion, the search into memory, has come to an end; there is no longer in- | | quiry into the field of the known. Then comes the extraordinary thing. | | If you have so far followed what I am talking about, not just verbally, | | but if you are actually experiencing it, you will find that when you can | | say, "I do not know," all conditioning has stopped. And what then is the | | state of the mind? ...We are seeking something permanent-permanent in | | the sense of time, something enduring, everlasting. We see that every- | | thing about us is transient, in flux, being born, withering, and dying, | | and our search is always to establish something that will endure within | | the field of the known. But that which is truly sacred is beyond the | | measure of time; it is not to be found within the field of the known. | | The known operates only through thought, which is the response of memory | | to challenge. If I see that, and I want to find out how to end thinking, | | what am I to do? Surely, I must through self-knowledge be aware of the | | whole process of my thinking. I must see that every thought, however | | subtle, however lofty, or however ignoble, stupid, has its roots in the | | known, in memory. If I see that very clearly, then the mind, when con- | | fronted with an immense problem, is capable of saying, "I do not know," | | because it has no answer. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, December 21, 2030 (355) (Decembre Solstice ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[20]--[19]--[21]--[20] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | B E Y O N D T H E L I M I T A T I O N S O F B E L I E F S | | | | To be a theist or an atheist, to me, are both absurd. If you knew what | | truth is, what God is, you would neither be a theist nor an atheist, be- | | cause in that awareness belief is unnecessary. It is the man who is not | | aware, who only hopes and supposes, that looks to belief or to disbe- | | lief, to support him, and to lead him to act in a particular way.Now, if | | you approach it quite differently, you will find out for yourselves, as | | individuals, something real which is beyond all the limitations of be- | | liefs, beyond the illusion of words. But that-the discovery of truth, or | | God-demands great intelligence, which is not assertion of belief or dis- | | belief, but the recognition of the hindrances created by lack of intel- | | ligence. So to discover God or truth-and I say such a thing does exist, | | I have realized it-to recognize that, to realize that, mind must be free | | of all the hindrances which have been created throughout the ages, based | | on self-protection and security. You cannot be free of security by mere- | | ly saying that you are free. To penetrate the walls of these hindrances, | | you need to have a great deal of intelligence, not mere intellect. In- | | telligence, to me, is mind and heart in full harmony; and then you will | | find out for yourself, without asking anyone, what that reality is. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, December 22, 2030 (356) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[21]--[20]--[22]--[21] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F R E E F R O M T H E N E T O F T I M E | | | | Without meditation, there is no self-knowledge; without self-knowledge, | | there is no meditation. So, you must begin to know what you are. You | | cannot go far without beginning near, without understanding your daily | | process of thought, feeling , and action. In other words, thought must | | understand its own working, and when you see yourself in operation, you | | will observe that thought moves from the known to the known. You cannot | | think about the unknown. That which you know is not real because what | | you know is only in time. To be free from the net of time is the impor- | | tant concern, not to think about the unknown, because you cannot think | | about the unknown. The answers to your prayers are of the known. To re- | | ceive the unknown, the mind itself must become the unknown. The mind is | | the result of the thought process, the result of time, and this thought | | process must come to an end. The mind cannot think of that which is | | eternal, timeless; therefore, the mind must be free of time, the time | | process of the mind must be dissolved. Only when the mind is completely | | free from yesterday, and is therefore not using the present as a means | | to the future, is it capable of receiving the eternal.... Therefore, our | | concern in meditation is to know oneself, not only superficially, but | | the whole content of the inner, hidden consciousness. Without knowing | | all that and being free of its conditioning, you cannot possibly go be- | | yond the mind's limits. That is why the thought process must cease, and | | for this cessation there must be knowledge of oneself. Therefore medita- | | tion is the beginning of wisdom, which is the understanding of one's own | | mind and heart. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, December 23, 2030 (357) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[22]--[21]--[23]--[22] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M E D I T A T I O N | | | | I am going step by step into what is meditation. Please don't wait till | | the end, hoping to have a complete description of how to meditate. What | | we are doing now is part of meditation.Now, what one has to do is to be | | aware of the thinker, and not try to resolve the contradiction and bring | | about an integration between thought and the thinker. The thinker is the | | psychological entity who has accumulated experience as knowledge; he is | | the time bound centre that is the result of ever-changing environmental | | influence, and from this centre he looks, he listens, he experiences. As | | long as one does not understand the structure and the anatomy of this | | centre, there must always be conflict, and a mind in conflict cannot | | possibly understand the depth and the beauty of meditation.In meditation | | there can be no thinker, which means that thought must come to an end - | | the thought which is urged forward by the desire to achieve a result. | | Meditation has nothing to do with achieving a result. It is not a matter | | of breathing in a particular way, or looking at your nose, or awakening | | the power to perform certain tricks, or any of the rest of that immature | | nonsense.... Meditation is not something apart from life. When you are | | driving a car or sitting in a bus, when you are chatting aimlessly, when | | you are walking by yourself in a wood or watching a butterfly being car- | | ried along by the wind-to be choicelessly aware of all that is part of | | meditation. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, December 24, 2030 (358) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[23]--[22]--[24]--[23] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | KNOW THE WHOLE CONTENT OF ONE THOUGHT | | | | Not being anything is the beginning of freedom. So if you are capable of | | feeling, of going into this you will find, as you become aware, that you | | are not free, that you are bound to very many different things, and that | | at the same time the mind hopes to be free. And you can see that the two | | are contradictory. So the mind has to investigate why it clings to any- | | thing. All this implies hard work. It is much more arduous than going to | | an office, than any physical labour, than all the sciences put together. | | Because the humble, intelligent mind is concerned with itself without | | being self-centred; therefore it has to be extraordinarily alert, aware, | | and that means real hard work every day, every hour, every minute.... | | This demands insistent work because freedom does not come easily. Every- | | thing impedes - your wife, your husband, your son, your neighbour, your | | Gods, your religions, your tradition. All these impede you, but you have | | created them because you want security. And the mind that is seeking se- | | curity can never find it. If you have watched a little in the world, you | | know there is no such thing as security. The wife dies, the husband | | dies, the son runs away - something happens. Life is not static, though | | we would like to make it so. No relationship is static because all life | | is movement. That is a thing to be grasped, the truth to be seen, felt, | | not something to be argued about. Then you will see, as you begin to in- | | vestigate, that it is really a process of meditation.But do not be mes- | | merized by that word. To be aware of every thought, to know from what | | source it springs and what is its intention - that is meditation. And to | | know the whole content of one thought reveals the whole process of the | | mind. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Wednesday, December 25, 2030 (359) ☺ (Christmas ) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[24]--[23]--[25]--[24] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | IGNITING THE FLAME OF SELF-AWARENESS | | | | If you find it difficult to be aware, then experiment with writing down | | every thought and feeling that arises throughout the day; write down y- | | our reactions of jealousy, envy, vanity, sensuality, the intentions be- | | hind your words, and so on.Spend sometime before breakfast in writing | | them down-which may necessitate going to bed earlier and putting aside | | some social affair. If you write these things down whenever you can, and | | in the evening before sleeping look over all that you have written dur- | | ing the day, study and examine it without judgement, without condemna- | | tion, you will begin to discover the hidden causes of your thoughts and | | feelings, desires and words....Now, the important thing in this is to | | study with free intelligence what you have written down, and in studying | | it you will become aware of your own state. In the flame of self-aware- | | ness, of self-knowledge, the causes of conflict are discovered and con- | | sumed. You should continue to write down your thoughts and feelings, in- | | tentions and reactions, not once or twice, but for a considerable number | | of days until you are able to be aware of them instantly....Meditation | | is not only constant self-awareness, but constant abandonment of the | | self. Out of right thinking there is meditation, from which there comes | | the tranquillity of wisdom; and in that serenity the highest is real- | | ized.Writing down what one thinks and feels, one's desires and reaction- | | s, brings about an inward awareness, the cooperation of the unconscious | | with the conscious, and this in turn leads to integration and under- | | standing. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thursday, December 26, 2030 (360) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[25]--[24]--[26]--[25] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | T H E W A Y O F M E D I T A T I O N | | | | Is truth something final, absolute, fixed? We would like it to be abso- | | lute because then we could take shelter in it. We would like it to be | | permanent because then we could hold on to it, find happiness in it. But | | is truth absolute, continuous, to be experienced over and over again? | | The repetition of experience is the mere cultivation of memory, is it | | not? In moments of quietness, I may experience a certain truth, but if I | | cling to that experience through memory and make it absolute, fixed - is | | that truth? Is truth the continuation, the cultivation of memory? Or, is | | truth to be found only when the mind is utterly still? When the mind is | | not caught in memories, not cultivating memory as the centre of recogni- | | tion, but is aware of everything I am saying, everything I am doing in | | my relationships, in my activities, seeing the truth of everything as it | | is from moment to moment - surely, that is the way of meditation, is it | | not? There is comprehension only when the mind is still, and the mind | | cannot be still as long as it is ignorant of itself. That ignorance is | | not dispelled through any form of discipline, through pursuing any au- | | thority, ancient or modern. Belief only creates resistance, isolation, | | and where there is isolation, there is no possibility of tranquillity. | | Tranquillity comes only when I understand the whole process of myself - | | the various entities in conflict with each other which compose the "me." | | As that is an arduous task, we turn to others to learn various tricks | | which we call meditation. The tricks of the mind are not meditation. | | Meditation is the beginning of self-knowledge, and without meditation, | | there is no self-knowledge. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Friday, December 27, 2030 (361) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[26]--[25]--[27]--[26] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | A M I N D I N T H E S T A T E O F C R E A T I O N | | | | Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind | | has put together. If you do that - perhaps you won't, but it doesn't | | matter, just listen to this - you will find that there is an extraordi- | | nary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand | | freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at | | the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in | | your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that | | meditation is creation.Creation is a word that we all use so glibly, so | | easily. A painter puts on canvas a few colours and gets tremendously ex- | | cited about it. It is his fulfilment, the means through which he ex- | | presses himself; it is his market in which to gain money or reputation - | | and he calls that "creation"! Every writer "creates," and there are | | schools of "creative" writing, but none of that has anything to do with | | creation. It is all the conditioned response of a mind that lives in a | | particular society.The creation of which I am speaking is something en- | | tirely different. It is a mind that is in the state of creation. It may | | or it may not express that state. Expression has very little value. That | | state of creation has no cause, and therefore a mind in that state is | | every moment dying and living and loving and being. The whole of this is | | meditation. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Saturday, December 28, 2030 (362) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[27]--[26]--[28]--[27] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | L A Y T H E F O U N D A T I O N I N S T A N T L Y | | | | A still mind is not seeking experience of any kind. And if it is not | | seeking and therefore is completely still, without any movement from the | | past and therefore free from the known, then you will find, if you have | | gone that far, that there is a movement of the unknown which is not rec- | | ognized, which is not translatable, which cannot be put into words - | | then you will find that there is a movement which is of the immense. | | That movement is of the timeless because in that there is no time, nor | | is there space, nor something in which to experience, nor something to | | gain, to achieve. Such a mind knows what is creation - not the creation | | of the painter, the poet, the verbalizer; but that creation which has no | | motive, which has no expression. That creation is love and death.This | | whole thing from the beginning to the end is the way of meditation. A | | man who would meditate must understand himself. Without knowing your- | | self, you cannot go far. However much you may attempt to go far, you can | | go only so far as your own projection; and your own projection is very | | near, is very close, and does not lead you anywhere. Meditation is that | | process of laying the foundation instantly, immediately, and bringing | | about- naturally, without any effort - that state of stillness. And only | | then is there a mind which is beyond time, beyond experience, and beyond | | knowing. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Sunday, December 29, 2030 (363) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[28]--[27]--[29]--[28] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | F I N D I N G S I L E N C E | | | | If you have followed this inquiry into what is meditation, and have un- | | derstood the whole process of thinking, you will find that the mind is | | completely still. In that total stillness of the mind, there is no | | watcher, no observer, and therefore no experiencer at all; there is no | | entity who is gathering experience, which is the activity of a self-cen- | | tred mind. Don't say, "That is samadhi" - which is all nonsense, because | | you have only read of it in some book and have not discovered it for y- | | ourself. There is a vast difference between the word and the thing. The | | word is not the thing; the word door is not the door.So, to meditate is | | to purge the mind of its self-centred activity. And if you have come | | this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total empti- | | ness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to | | any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, | | and being alone, untouched, it is innocent. Therefore there is a possi- | | bility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being.This w- | | hole process is meditation. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Monday, December 30, 2030 (364) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ FEB/ MAR/ APR/ +---[29]--[28]--[30]--[29] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | GENEROSITY OF THE HEART IS THE BEGINNING OF MEDITATION | | | | We are going to talk about something which needs a mind that can pene- | | trate very profoundly. We must begin very near because we cannot go very | | far if we do not know how to begin very close, if we do not know how to | | take the first step. The flowering of meditation is goodness, and the | | generosity of the heart is the beginning of meditation. We have talked | | about many things concerning life, authority, ambition, fear, greed, en- | | vy, death, time; we have talked about many things. If you observe, if | | you have gone into it, if you have listened rightly, those are all the | | foundation for a mind that is capable of meditating. You cannot meditate | | if you are ambitious - you may play with the idea of meditation. If your | | mind is authority-ridden, bound by tradition, accepting, following, you | | will never know what it is to meditate on this extraordinary beau- | | ty....It is the pursuit of its own fulfilment through time that prevents | | generosity. And you need a generous mind - not only a wide mind, a mind | | that is full of space, but also a heart that gives without thought, | | without a motive, and that does not seek any reward in return. But to | | give whatever little one has or however much one has - that quality of | | spontaneity of outgoing, without any restriction, without any withhold- | | ing, is necessary. There can be no meditation without generosity, with- | | out goodness -which is to be free from pride, never to climb the ladder | | of success, never to know what it is to be famous; which is to die to | | whatever has been achieved, every minute of the day. It is only in such | | fertile ground that goodness can grow, can flower. And meditation is the | | flowering of goodness. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Tuesday, December 31, 2030 (365) TO-DO: APPOINTMENTS: DAILY LOG: +-->30+-->60+-->90+-->120. | JAN/ MAR/ MAR/ APR/ +---[30]--[01]--[31]--[30] ,__-----------------------------------------------------------------------, /| )_ ___ ___ | _| /. , | /(_) | _ _| _. / _ ||_ _ _ |__|_ |(_|_/ : | |__)|__ |(_)(_|(_|\/ _> || |(_)|_|(_|| ||_ |__|/ | +------------------------------ /----------==----- _|------------------------+ | | | M E D I T A T I O N I S E S S E N T I A L T O L I F E | | | | To understand this whole problem of influence, the influence of experi- | | ence, the influence of knowledge, of inward and outward motives - to | | find out what is true and what is false and to see the truth in the so-- | | called false - all that requires tremendous insight, a deep inward com- | | prehension of things as they are, does it not? This whole process is, | | surely, the way of meditation. Meditation is essential in life, in our | | everyday existence, as beauty is essential. The perception of beauty, | | the sensitivity to things, to the ugly as well as to the beautiful, is | | essential- to see a beautiful tree, a lovely sky of an evening, to see | | the vast horizon where the clouds are gathering as the sun is setting. | | All this is necessary, the perception of beauty and the understanding of | | the way of meditation, because all that is life, as is also your going | | to the office, the quarrels, miseries, the perpetual strain, anxiety, | | the deep fears, love, and starvation. Now the understanding of this to- | | tal process of existence- the influences, the sorrows, the daily strain, | | the authoritative outlook, the political actions and so on- all this is | | life, and the process of understanding it all, and freeing the mind, is | | meditation. If one really comprehends this life then there is always a | | meditative process, always a process of contemplation- but not about | | something. To be aware of this whole process of existence, to observe | | it, to dispassionately enter into it, and to be free of it, is medita- | | tion. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |B|E|N|D|I|C|I|Ó|N| |I|R|L|A|N|D|E|S|A| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Que el camino se alce a tu encuentro que el viento siempre sople a tus espaldas, el sol brille sobre tu rostro y la lluvia caiga suave sobre tus campos. Y hasta que nos volvamos a encontrar, que Dios te sostenga en la palma de Su mano. Que vivas por el tiempo que tu quieras, y que siempre quieras vivir plenamente. Recuerda siempre olvidar las cosas que te entristecieron. Pero nunca te olvides de recordar las cosas que te alegraron. Recuerda siempre olvidar a los amigos que resultaron falsos. Pero nunca olvides recordar a aquellos que permanecieron cerca tuyo. Recuerda siempre olvidar los problemas que ya pasaron. Pero nunca olvides recordar las bendiciones de cada día. Que el día mas triste de tu futuro no sea peor que el día más feliz de tu pasado. Que nunca se te venga el techo encima y que los amigos reunidos bajo este, nunca nunca te abandonen. Que siempre encuentres palabras cálidas en un frio anochecer, una luna llena en una noche oscura, y que el camino siempre, se abra ante tu puerta. Que vivas cien años, con un año extra para arrepentirte! Que el señor te guarde en Su mano, y nunca apriete mucho el puño. Que tus amigos te respeten, los problemas te abandonen, los ángeles te protejan, y que el cielo te acoja. Que la fortuna de las colinas irlandesas siempre te acunen. Que las bendiciones de San Patricio siempre te incluyan. Que tus bolsillos siempre estén pesados y que tu corazón viaje ligero. Que la buena suerte te persiga, y cada día y cada noche tengas muros contra el viento, un techo para la lluvia, bebidas junto a una fogata, risas para consolarte, aquellos a quienes amas, cerca tuyo, y todo lo que tu corazón desee! Que Dios esté contigo y te bendiga, que veas a los hijos de tus hijos, que seas pobre en infortunios, y rico en bendiciones. Que no conozcas nada más que la felicidad, de hoy en mas. Que Dios te conceda muchos años de vida, pues seguro que Él sabe que el mundo carece de suficientes ángeles, y que en el cielo hay demasiados. Que tengas tu media hora en el cielo, antes de que el diablo se entere que has muerto. -~= : O : =~- ☺ ****************************** ☽ * MONTHLY FULL MOON NAMES * ☻ * IN DIFFERENT CULTURES * ☾ ****************************** +------------ R E F E R E N C E ------------------------------+ |/ al) Algonquin Native American/Colonial Full Moon Names. \| | sj) San Juan Native American Full Moon Names. | | ta) Taos Native American Full Moon Names. | | me) Mediaeval English Full Moon Names. | |\ np) Neo-Pagan Full Moon Names. /| +-------------------------------------------------------------+ JANUARY (al)Wolf Moon, (al) Old Moon, (al) Winter Moon, (al) Yule Moon, (sj)Ice Moon(ta)Man Moon, (me)Wolf Moon, (np)Ice MoonFEBRUARY (al)Snow Moon, (al) Hunger Moon, (al) Trapper's Moon, (sj)Coyote Frighten Moon, (ta)Winter Moon, (me)Storm Moon, (np)Snow MoonMARCH (al)Worm Moon, (al) Crow Moon, (al) Crust Moon, (al) Sap Moon, (sj)Lizard Moon, (ta)Wind Strong Moon, (me)Chaste Moon, (np)Death MoonAPRIL (al)Pink Moon, (al) Sprouting Grass Moon, (al) Fish Moon, (al) Egg Moon, (al) Planter's Moon, (sj)Leaf Split Moon, (ta)Ashes Moon, (me)Seed Moon,MAY (al)Flower Moon, (al) Corn Plant Moon, (al) Milk Moon, (sj)Leaf Tender Moon, (ta)Corn Planting Moon, (me)Hare Moon, (np)Grass MoonJUNE (al)Strawberry Moon, (al) Rose Moon, (al) Honey Moon, (al) Hot Moon, (sj)Leaf Dark Moon, (ta)Corn Tassel Appear Moon, (me)Dyad Moon, (np)PlantingJULY (al)Buck Moon, (al) Thunder Moon, (al) Summer Moon, (al) Hay Moon, (sj)Ripe Moon, (ta)Sun House Moon, (me)Mead Moon, (np)Rose MoonAUGUST (al)Sturgeon Moon, (al) Red Moon, (al) Green Corn Moon, (al) Dog Days Moon, (al) Wood Cutter's Moon, (sj)Wheat Cut Moon, (ta)Autumn Moon, (me)WortSEPTEMBER (al)Harvest Moon, (al) Fruit Moon, (al) Dying Grass Moon, (sj)All Ripe Moon, (ta)Leaf Yellow Moon, (me)Barley Moon, (np)Harvest MoonOCTOBER (al)Hunter's Moon, (sj)Leaf Fall Moon, (ta)Corn Ripe Moon, (me)Blood Moon, (me) Wine Moon, (np)Hunter's Moon, (np) Blood MoonNOVEMBER (al)Beaver Moon, (al) Frosty Moon, (sj)All Gathered Moon, (ta)Corn Harvest Moon, (me)Snow Moon, (np)Tree MoonDECEMBER (al)Cold Moon, (al) Long Nights Moon, (sj)Ashes Fire Moon, (ta)Night Moon, (me)Oak Moon, (np)Long Night MoonMONTHKNOWN POPULAR NAMES ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ ▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ │ │ ████ ██▄ ▄██ ██ ██ ███ ██ ██▀▀██ ▄█▀▀▀▀█ │ │ ████ ██▄▄██ ██ ██ ██▀█ ██ ██ ██ ██▄ │ │ ██ ██ ▀██▀ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ▀████▄ │ │ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ██ █▄██ ██ ██ ▀██ │ │ ▄██ ██▄ ██ ▀██▄▄██▀ ██ ███ ██▄▄██ █▄▄▄▄▄█▀ │ │ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. dd MMM AAAA - FLun. Signo Descr. FECHA Luna-Signo ¿Qué tal estuvo el día? MY HOME-MADE WILDERNESS KIT [ 28/09/2011 06:11:17 PM ] < http://www.m4040.com/Survival/Survival%20Kit.htm > I made this external pouch kit for my Ghurka Kukri Modification Project . It is what I consider to be a very comprehensive wilderness survival kit (for its size). For more on survival itself as well as some good woodsman skills and tips, see my survival page here. This large kit has velcro attachment straps, and is therefore wearable either on the sheath as shown, on the belt alongside the knife, or alone without the large knife (in areas where wearing the large knife may not be appropriate). I've had quite a few inquiries about whether I would offer kits for sale. I have been looking into it, but have had mixed success. I would need to keep pricing reasonable, and I'm still looking at sourcing. I was recently rebuffed by Coghlan's when I inquired about using some of their items (survival blanket, compass, whistle, etc) in my kit. See the story HERE. If you want to purchase a nice little starter kit for wilderness survival, I have reviewed a kit that is one hell of a good deal HERE. The items pictured below are referenced by number and explained in detail in the following section. Note that some items are not shown (everyone knows what an aspirin or a pencil look like). [FrontPage Save Results Component] THE KNIFE - This is not shown with, or even listed among the rest of the kit items, as I see it as too obvious to even list, and it is also something that should suit your skillset, personal tastes and budget. A good knife is a survival kit unto itself. From chopping timbers for a shelter, to carving up the makings of a bow drill for fire to whittling the catch for a snare, a good knife in the hands of a knowledgeable individual is THE key item in a kit. The rest is just dressing. I recommend something that can CHOP. Whereas you'll need to drop small trees and branches for all types of purposes, this is critical. Rambo's knife might have LOOKED mean, but in a survival situation? In a true survival situation, I'll take my $20 reworked Ghurka Kukri or $15 US Mil Spec Machete over his $500 Jimmy Lile custom any day of the week. I own a LOT of knives... some of them quite expensive, but for true chopping power, I've made my choice. If you want to buy an off the shelf knife (that requires no rework) for this purpose, I recommend the Becker Brute for the job. For those that want to go cheaper, there are a variety of short machetes out there that serve the purpose admirably. ITEM 1 - Contents, Survival Tips & Guidelines (Printed on Waterproof Paper). This item is just a primer to help focus someone on the task in hand. It is not intended to be a survival manual, but a survival organizer which may help someone to prioritize their objectives in an otherwise confusing situation. It is also flammable if you cannot find tinder anywhere else. If you'd like to read it, you can See It Here. ITEM 2 - Pencil & 3 Blank Sheets Waterproof Paper (notes for self & others) - This can be very useful for making notes to yourself or to others who may be searching for you. It is also flammable if you cannot find tinder anywhere else. ITEM 3 - Small Swiss Army Knife (blade, scissors, file, small screwdriver, can opener, tweezers, etc) - I have since swapped the Swiss Army knife for a Leatherman Micra. It is built a little tougher, and the scissors are much better. This is included primarily because the main knife in the kit is a bit cumbersome for fine whittling or cutting small items. You can use whatever you are comfortable with here. ITEM 4 - 550 lb.test Para Cord (20 ft.) - (Not Shown, as it is wrapped around the knife sheath & handle). The uses of Para Cord in a survival situation are too numerous to fully list. As an example, use it for shelter, whether for tying frame members together, or for stringing up a tarp between trees. Also use it for snares and for building other weapons. I would recommend more than the 20 feet specified in the kit ( I personally switch out all my boot laces with para cord as soon as I get them ). The Para cord is stronger than any bootlaces sold. True Para Cord is constructed of an outer sheath which houses 7 inner strands. Each inner strand is 50 pound test, and the outer sheathing is rated at about 200 pounds. As such, in an emergency situation, if more string were needed, one can remove the inner strands, and the outer sheathing will still serve admirably as shoelaces. If your bootlaces are each about 3 feet long, then you would be able to gain more than 40 feet of string from the laces if needed. Not bad, eh? Make sure that what you get has 7 inner strands, and is 550 lb test! This typically sells for about $5-$10 for a 100 ft length. This takes up a good bit of space in a kit, so I wrap about 20-25 feet of it around the outside of the sheath instead of packing it inside the pouch. Para cord can be obtained from many sources, but be careful what you are buying. ITEM 5 - Removed & Replaced with small, LOUD whistle! ITEM 6 - Small Lighter - As I mentioned before, the "Rambo" types out there seem to like roughing it. By keeping a dozen matches crammed in the handle of their knife, it would seem that they are severely limiting their fire making ability (as well as compromising the overall strength of the knife). I hope it's not the rainy season, as these matches could well be gone in about the first five minutes. I chose to put a mini Bic lighter, as you can start a hell of a lot more fires with it as compared to a comparable volume of matches. As backups, I also include the magnesium / flint bar, which, with a little practice, can start thousands of fires, and the magnifying glass, which can start limitless fires. ITEM 7 - Magnesium / Flintbar Firestarter (also use as signaling device) - This item is about $5-$6 in any camping goods store, Wal-Mart, etc. As I mentioned above, with a little practice this little item can start thousands of fires. Just shave the magnesium with a knife (or file if you're carrying a multi-tool that has a file). collect all the shavings into a pile about the size of a dime. I have seen some sites out there saying that you are supposed to strike the flint with your knife. This is stupid, as you will ruin both the knife edge and the flintbar. Just rest the corner of the bar right in the pile of magnesium shavings and run a NON-SHARPENED corner of your knife down the flint. Practice this a little in your backyard... it's really easy to get the hang of. The magnesium ignites with a flame like a blow torch, and will burn for several seconds. Keep your tinder and fuel ready to pile on, or build the tinder pile around the magnesium in such a way as to still allow the magnesium to be hit with sparks). ITEM 8 - Mini LED Flashlight - This is a very bright little light. If you plan to purchase one, buy one that has either white, yellow, green or blue light. The red LED's are not very bright, as they are much older technology. This item is great for short durations where you need to locate items at night. For longer duration, build a fire. These can also be used for signaling at night (another reason not to use the red). You can pack along a couple extra button batteries as well. They take very little space, and each lasts for quite a while. I recommend some electrical tape between each to keep them from discharging. As each battery is about the size of a dime, this takes very little space in the kit. If your light requires tools to change the batteries, make sure you have something to do it with! ITEMS 9 and 10 - 30ft Fishing Line and 6 Fish Hooks (15 lb test line) - I shouldn't have to tell anyone what to do with these. except to say that in most cases, you're better off setting lines on the heavier line (80 lb test line below) and leaving them unattended. There are better things to do with your time than to spend hours fishing or hunting. Setting snares and baited lines out, and then checking from time to time will net your best results. ITEM 11 - 50ft Fishing Line (Hvy 80 lb test) (snares, shelter making, etc) - This line is Spiderwire Fusion brand, ultra-High Performance saltwater line. It is not monofilament, meaning it has inner strands surrounded by a tough outer sheath. This stuff is tough as nails, and has about a thousand uses. It can be used for shelter building, snare making, and for unattended fishing purposes among others. ITEM 12 - Mirror (Signaling, grooming) - A signaling mirror is great for signaling at long distances or to passing ships or aircraft. It can also be used for self inspection. No, I'm not talking about fixing your hairdo, I'm talking about checking wounds, rashes, etc in places you would not otherwise be able to see without being double-jointed. The mirror is stainless steel, and can take a decent edge if necessary (it might not be a bad idea to put a good edge on it before packing it in the kit). ITEM 13 - Compass - As you can see above, I have shown two items labeled Item 13. If you know how to use a compass, it is an invaluable tool. If you typically pack topographical maps with you, then it's worth bringing something nice. If not, something that points North may suffice. If you are not at all familiar, then save the space, and pack something else, as you already have one compass in item 5. It is a good idea for everyone to learn at least the basics of using a compass, and to have a good idea of basic directional orientation before heading into the wilderness. ITEM 14 - Needles(3) and Heavy Upholstry Thread (10 ft) - Excellent for mending clothing and other items ( I still have a scar from where I mended the back of my hand while camping... I now carry a Surgical Suture in my kit !! ) ITEM 15 - Safety Pins (3) - Used for quick repairs of clothing and other gear. Can also be used as additional emergency fishhooks, etc. ITEM 16 - Survival Blanket - This is used as a blanket (reflects body heat back to you). It is also great for signaling, as it will reflect a lot of sunlight. Make a frame out of sticks, and stretch the blanket over it, and you have an extra large signaling mirror! This can also be used to waterproof your shelter, and to collect rainwater. Remember that whereas this is waterproof, it does not allow your perspiration to escape, and can therefore leave you colder than before. do NOT roll up in this or use it as an under layer inside of a jacket. Just wrap it around you like a shawl or poncho. These are available in most any Wal-Mart or other store that has camping and outdoors gear. The cost is about $2-$3 each. ITEM 17 - Painter's Tarp 9'x7' - This is a thin plastic sheet that can be used for a variety of purposes. It can be used with a little para cord as a Tarp Shelter, or as a waterproofing for the roof of whatever you construct for shelter. It can be laid out to collect rainwater, used as a poncho, or employed as a Solar Still. This item can be purchased at your local hardware store for a couple dollars. For size considerations, I used the 0.35 mil painters tarp. This is extremely thin, but will pack 3 times as small as a 1 mil thick tarp. It is very easy to tear, so you may want to practice using this a bit to make sure you can use it without ruining it. I bought this stuff in a roll 9ft. x 400ft. for about $12, so destroying a few sheets in practice is no concern! Notes for Item 17: You can also use one or more trash bags as a substitute for this item. The large lawn and leaf bags work well. The 45 gallon type can be cut open to a size of 4'x6', which is large enough for a one person tarp Shelter., or to serve as waterproofing for the roofs of a variety of other shelter types. Carrying two bags allows one to use one for shelter, and the other as a poncho, by tearing a hole in the top for your head (I say tear instead of cut, because cutting it will create an opening that will easily rip further). ITEM 18 - Water purifying straw - This is one of the greatest pieces of kit I have ever come across. It is good for 20 -25 Gallons of water (depending on just how crummy the water is). It is not just a filter. It actually filters AND treats the water with antibacterials. Even if you don't use this in your survival kit, it is great to bring camping or to any outdoors activity. Amuse your friends by suddenly leaning down and drinking from some green swampy festering puddle! Some sites out there try to whack you for $20-$30 for this item, but I found some for about $7/ea at Cheaper Than Dirt ITEM 19 - Water Purification Tablets (20) - These can each purify 1 or 2 quarts of water depending on how dirty the water is. Whereas these are Iodine based, they can be used for sterilizing injuries in the field. Crush up one water purification tablet and add about a teaspoon of water to make a strong Iodine topical solution / salve. If you need to irrigate a wound, simply thin this a little more. As each tablet can purify up to a quart of water, I would think that anything up to a cup of water would produce a strong disinfectant solution. These are available in most any Wal-Mart or other store that has camping and outdoors gear. ITEM 20 - 5 feet of duct tape, wrapped around ball point pen - Ahhh... the many and wondrous uses of duct tape!! Where to start? Repairs can be made to just about anything. Patch holes in tarps, fix a point to an arrow or spear, etc etc etc. It can also be used to bandage cuts and scrapes (put a square of cotton from a tee shirt under it, don't just cover the wound directly). Make a butterfly bandage for more serious wounds. The pen is used as a backup to the pencil. ITEM 21 - Surgical Suture, Sterile - I still have a scar from where I mended the back of my hand while camping. At the time, my emergency kit had only standard needle and thread, and let me tell you... this was NOT an easy task!! ... I now carry a Surgical Suture in my kit !! I used to get these from Nitro-Pak.com, but they're much cheaper at Medrepexpress . ITEM 22 - anti-diarrhea pills (4), Motrin (6) in a watertight capsule - As someone who has traveled overseas frequently, this is not just a wilderness survival item!! These are invaluable in many places. Having a bad bout with diarrhea whilst traveling in Mexico is an inconvenience... having the same thing whilst in a survival situation could be DEADLY. The Motrin can be replaced with whatever industrial strength prescription stuff you may have laying around. If you find yourself having to make your way through 20 miles of wilderness with a crudely splinted broken leg, you'll be happy for whatever painkillers you have at hand !! ITEM 23 - Ziploc Freezer Bags (2) - Use as canteens, waterproof storage for kit, and other items. ITEM 24 - Slingshot kit - The Slingshot Kit is a Powerband Replacement Kit (No.RR-2, Heavy-Pull Band) from slingshots.com, the price is $4. This consists of a leather pouch and surgical tubing. This can be attached to a forked stick with ParaCord to make a slingshot. I have made a basic sketch of the best (simplest) way to do this HERE. Other uses for this item include the ability to string a bow with it, and also the ability to make a Hawaiian Fishing Spear. ITEM 25 - Small Rectangular Cooking Tin - This item was purchased in the baking section of my local supermarket, and is a cooking pan for small loaves of cornbread, etc. It was sold in a pack of three for about $5. These are 6" by 3.5" by 2.5" deep. These are primarily used as cooking vessels, but double as tough and convenient containers to pack the kits in! RECENTLY ADDED ITEMS ITEM 26 - Fresnel Lens - The Fresnel Lens is a credit card sized magnifying glass, and can be used to inspect small items, or to start fires. It packs very small, so is handy to have (I keep one in my wallet as well). ITEM 27 - Scalpel Blades - I pack 2 of the size 24 scalpel blades. These come in sterile wrapping, pack extremely small and have a multitude of uses, from medical to skinning and gutting game, to fine whittling. ITEM 28 - Fifty Dollar Bill - (NOT SHOWN) This was something I wish I thought of, but I saw it in someone else's kit, and decided that it was a GREAT idea. Imagine getting lost, and eventually finding your way out of the woods far from where you intended to be. It's nice to have some cab fare, or money for a Big Mac... after a few days eating bugs, it would be a shame to emerge next to a 7-11, and have no money for food! This could be whatever bill you feel comfortable putting in, or even an extra credit card (make sure it stays current). It's also a great idea to keep an emergency card or bill in your car's kit (ever forget your wallet?). ITEM 29 - MilSpec Snare Wire (10 ft) - This stuff has a multitude of uses, from snaring to tripwire, to hanging food items over a fire for cooking. Notes: Notice that the standard and heavy fishing line and the Snare Wire are all wrapped around nails. The nails can be used for shelter building, spear points and other tools. The thread is wrapped around the three needles. I used a cordless drill to make the winding of all this a lot easier. I will be updating this picture soon to include all items. What Makes This Survival Kit Different If you've read about these kits or built your own, you'll notice a few things that make mine a bit different. * I do NOT waste space with matches. In the space taken up by 6 or 8 waterproof matches, I've put a mini Bic lighter. It's the choice between starting 6 fires or 600. The magnesium flint bar can start THOUSANDS of fires, and is 100% waterproof. (about $5-$7 in any camping goods store, Wal-Mart, etc). * I do not waste space or weight on a sharpening stone. With a little practice, just about anyone can sharpen a knife using a smooth rock found in the outdoors. * The McNett Water purifying straw is one of the best pieces of kit to come down the pike. There are various types out there, but I recommend this one for its size and price. Rated at 20-25 Gallons, this little gizmo should last any adult at least a month in the woods. Some sites out there try to whack you for $20-$30 for this item, but I managed to find some for about $10/ea. * The Slingshot Kit is a Powerband Replacement Kit (No.RR-2, Heavy-Pull Band) from slingshots.com, the price is about $5. For those who had a slingshot as a kid and know how to use it well, this is a great piece of survival gear, but if you don't know what you are doing with one, you can leave this out, and use the space for something else. You can make other hunting tools instead. * I do NOT waste space with Band-Aids. The duct tape serves well for bandaging small cuts, and the suture kit is for more serious injuries. For anyone who has had to stitch themselves up in the woods using a regular needle and thread, you will know it sucks, and that a nice curved pre-threaded cutting needle makes for much quicker work. With a little searching, these can be had for about $7 - $10/ea. For sterilizing injuries in the field crush up one water purification tablet and add about a teaspoon of water to make a strong Iodine topical solution. (this also saves room in the kit where some folks put tubes of disinfectant, etc). If you need to irrigate a wound, simply thin this a little more. As each tablet can purify up to a quart of water, I would think that anything up to a cup of water would produce a strong disinfectant solution. * The Painter's Tarp is very thin, clear plastic, and is available at most hardware stores. I recommend the 0.5 mil thickness, as you can pack it much smaller. It's usually only available in bulk rolls. This is great for draping over a shelter to waterproof it, and for making solar stills in dry climates. If you can fit the whole 9'x12' sheet, you can easily cut this up in the field to cover a shelter, make a solar still, and have a poncho all from the one sheet. I built this kit in triplicate, as a couple friends wanted one. The first item in the kit is a very basic survival primer. It is far from comprehensive, as it is meant for someone who is already quite familiar with survival techniques. It is intended to help clear someone's mind and start them focusing on the right priorities. The text of this can be seen on my SURVIVAL PRIMER PAGE. In cases where I cannot carry a large knife, I carry a Gerber Multi-Tool. Actually, I carry the Gerber pretty much ANY time I'm headed into the woods. If you don't own one, these are invaluable !! Alternative Pouch The tin with the kit enclosed will also fit quite nicely into a US Mil Spec Magazine Pouch. In fact, it will even fit a few extra items as well (like the Gerber Tool). This pouch is tough as nails, and can be purchased for under $10 from most any Army/Navy outlet )_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_ (_)_(_)_(,-------.._(_)_(_)_ )_(_)_,-'' :::::: `-..(_)_(_ (_)_,;' :: :: `:.(_)_ )_(// :: :: \\_(_ (_;;::::::::: :::::::::::)_ )_| EQUIPO 1ROS.AUXILIOS |(_ (_::::::::::: :::::::::;;)_ )_(\\ :: :: //_(_ (_)_`:. :: :: ,;'(_)_ )_(_)_'-.. :::::: ,-''(_)_(_ (_)_(_)_(`-------''_(_)_(_)_ )_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_ Deberia contar con los siguientes elementos esterilizados y recién comprados: * Curitas o esparadrapos, de medidas y formas varias, desde formas tipo Band-Aid, hasta cuadraditos y otras grandes. * Tijeras chicas (pero afiladas) * Gasas esterilizadas grandes. * Paquete de vendas. Suelen ser anchas, porque en caso de necesidad se pueden cortar. * Tela adehesiva (no la cinta adehesiva de plastico) * Bolitas de algodon, grandes y chicas * Alcohol de frotar solo para limpiar heridas superficiales (x.e. quitar la suciedad de la piel no lesionada, o desinfectar una superficie) * Antibiotico Untable, para evitar que se infecten heridas, razgunos, etc. Se recomienda Neosporin , porque no arde en la herida. * Un termometro * Pinzas para quitar astillas * Guantes de goma (o descartables), en caso de sangre * Alcohol * H2O2 Agua Oxigenada. Advertencias * Lavar las pinzas, tijeras y termometro despues de usarlo. * Tenga cuidado con lo que usa y no se quede con pocas provisiones! )_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_ (_)_(_)_(,-------.._(_)_(_)_ )_(_)_,-'' :::::: `-..(_)_(_ (_)_,;' :: :: `:.(_)_ )_(// :: :: \\_(_ (_;;::::::::: :::::::::::)_ )_|::GUIA 1ROS.AUXILIOS::|(_ (_::::::::::: :::::::::;;)_ )_(\\ :: :: //_(_ (_)_`:. :: :: ,;'(_)_ )_(_)_'-.. :::::: ,-''(_)_(_ (_)_(_)_(`-------''_(_)_(_)_ )_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_)_(_ < http://www.first-aid-product.com/pgFirstAidGuide.htm > __________________________________________________________ REFERENCIA DE PEQUEÑOS ACCIDENTES: ##| ##| Sangrado ##| Limpiando y vendando heridas ##| Lesiones oculares ##| Quemaduras ##| Quemaduras quimicas ##| Quemaduras solares ##| Perdida de la conciencia ##| Asfixia ##| Asfixia infantil ##| Veneno ##| Mordedura animal ##| Picadura de abejas ##| Psicosomatica ##| SANGRADO Antes de asistir al paciente, ponerse guantes protectores o establecer una barrera entre uno y la victima, con el fin de reducir la posibilidad de contagio mientras atendemos a la persona herida. Lavarse a fondo las manos con agua, cepillo y jabon cuando terminamos. Nociones Basicas de Primeros Auxilios: * LAMAR a 911 para asistencia medica. * Mantener recostada a la victima. * Aplicar presion directa mediante un trapo limpio o cobertura esteril justo sobre la herida. * NO VAYA A quitar ningun objeto que estuviera alojado en la herida; pedir ayuda al medico para quitarlo. * Si no hay senales de fractura en la zona afectada, podemos elevar con mucho cuidado la herida a una altura superior al corazon de la victima. * Una vez que el sangrado esta bajo control, mantener abrigada a la victima con una frazada, estando atentos a cualquier conmocion. LIMPIANDO Y VENDANDO HERIDAS * Lavarse las manos y desinfectar la zona herida con jabon limpio y agua, luego dejar secar. * Aplicar una solucion antibiotica en caso de heridas menores y cubrir con gasa esteril o una venda de una medida algo mayor que la herida tratada. LESIONES OCULARES * Si se incrusto un objeto en el ojo, LLAME A 911 y NO quite el objeto. * Cubra ambos ojos con tela esteril o lavaojos que pueda inmobilizar. * Al cubrir ambos ojos se intenta minimizar el movimiento del ojo herido. * NO frotar o aplicar presion, hielo o carne cruda sobre el ojo afectado. * Si la parte afectada es un ojo morado, se puede poner hielo sobre la mejilla y por la zona alrededor del ojo, pero nunca directamente sobre el globo ocular. Como enjuagar los ojos : Si el quimico afecto solo un ojo, enjuagarlo poniendo la cabeza de la victima con el ojo contaminado hacia abajo. . . evitando que el enjuague pase el quimico del ojo afectado al sano. Enjuague con agua fresca o de la misma temperatura ambiental durante 15 o mas minutos. Despues de enjuagar, quitar lentes de contacto. QUEMADURAS Quemaduras de PRIMER GRADO: Piel roja y puede haber hinchazon y dolor. Generalmente, no requieren de atencion medica. Quemaduras de SEGUNDO GRADO: Piel roja, ampollada e hinchada. Puede requerir asistencia medica. Quemaduras de TERCER GRADO: Piel visiblemente chamuzcada y tal vez blanca. Generalmente muy doloroso. NECESITA ATENCION MEDICA. PRIMEROS AUXILIOS BASICOS PARA QUEMADURAS DE 1ER. GRADO Y ALGUNAS QUEMADURAS DE 2NDO. GRADO: Sumerja el area quemada inmediatamente en agua fresca hasta que termine el dolor. Si el area afectada es extensa, cubrirla con trapos frescos y humedos. No destruya las ampollas que puedan haber aparecido. Si persiste el dolor y no se requiere de asistencia medica, aplicar crema de primeros auxilios o gel medicamente aprobados con gasa esteril untada. Si se requiere atencion medica, no aplique ninguna crema. Solo cubra con gasa esteril y busque ayuda medica inmediatamente. PRIMEROS AUXILIOS BASICOS PARA QUEMADURAS DE 3ER. GRADO Y ALGUNAS QUEMADURAS DE 2NDO. GRADO: LLAME A 911!! Las quemaduras de tercer grado NECE- CITAN ATENCION MEDICA INMEDIATA! NO intente quitar nada que este pegado a la zona quemada. Cubra con gasa esteril o sabana limpia. NO aplique ninguna crema o gel. QUEMADURAS QUIMICAS * Enjuague el area afectada con agua corriente fresca durante al menos 15 minutos. * Quite toda ropa y accesorios que puedan haberse contaminado. * Controle que la victima no entre en shock mientras consigue asistencia medica. * Si el quemado quimico es en los ojos, enjuague constantemente con agua mientras consigue inme- diata asistencia medica. QUEMADURAS SOLARES * Evite que siga expuesto a la luz solar directa. * Beba mucha agua para evitar la deshidratacion. * Nunca aplicar agua fria o hielo a una quemadura grave. * Recurra a remedios que tenga que puedan aliviar. * Si la quemadura es grave y aparecen ampollas solicite atencion medica. PERDIDA DEL CONOCIMIENTO * No deje sola a una victima que perdio el conocimiento salvo para llamar a 911 para ayuda medica. * Asegurese que la victima esta conciente, preguntandole si esta bien . * Revise las vias respiratorias, respiracion y circula- cion de sangre de la victima (VRC). * Si el VRC de la victima no es satisfactorio, recura a PCR (Procedimiento Cardio Respiratorio). IMPORTANTE: El PCR deberia hacerlo solo el personal cualificado y entrenado. Basicamente, es: paciente recostado boca arriba. 4 masajes sobre corazon profundos y luego meter aire por la boca 2 veces al ritmo de la cancion... STAYING ALIVE (estribillo) Repetir hasta que se recobre. * Si tiene VRC y no se teme que haya herida espinal puede poner al paciente de costado con su mejilla hacia el suelo para permitir que fluya cualquier secrecion. * Cubrir a la victima con frazada para mantenerla abrigada y evitar un ataque de shock. Si la victima declara que tiene calor, quitarle la frazada. ASFIXIA * Preguntele a la victima si "Esta bien?" * No interfiera ni le de primeros auxilios si la victima puede hablar, respirar o toser. * Si la victima no puede hablar, respirar o toser, pedirle a alguien que llame al 911 mientras realiza la Maniobra Heimlich (masaje abdominal). * La Maniobra de Heimlich: Situarse detras de la victima con los brazos rodeando el estómago de la victima. Poner el lado del pulgar de su puño justo sobre el ombligo de la victima y debajo del extremo inferior del esternón. Sujete su puño con su mano libre y tire del puño hacia arriba y hacia adentro, rápido y firmemente. Siga con el masaje hasta que se expulse el objeto o se despejen las vias aereas. ASFIXIA INFANTIL * Coloque la cara del niño hacia abajo sobre su antebrazo, sujetando su cara y cuello con la mano. Apoye la mano sobre su rodilla para que la cabeza del niño quede mas abajo que su cuerpo. * Con la base de su mano, darle 4 golpes entre las claviculas de la espalda del niño. * Poner el niño boca arriba. Poner dos dedos en el centro del pecho del niño (justo bajo sus pezones) y realizar hasta 5 masajes de pecho. * Repetir hasta terminada la obstruccion. * Solicitar atencion medica despues de cualquier incidente de asfixia, ya que pueden surgir complicaciones. VENENO * Llame a su Centro de Control de Intoxicaciones local o al 911, para atencion medica inmediata. * Los antidotos en las etiquetas pueden estar equivocados !! No los siga a menos que lo se lo sugiera un medico. * No le de nada por la boca (leche, agua, Ipecac, etc) hasta haberlo consultado con un profesional medico. * Siempre tenga a mano una botella de 29 gr. de Ipecac para casos de emergencia, y solo uselo si lo dice su medico. * Si el veneno esta en la piel, enjuage la piel con agua durante 15 minutos. Luego lave y enjuage con jabon y agua. * Si el veneno esta en los ojos, enjuage con agua tibia durante 15 minutos. Los adultos pueden soportar tener los ojos abiertos bajo la ducha. Siempre consulte con un profesional medico si ha ocurrido una lesion ocular. MORDEDURA ANIMAL * Controle cualquier sangrado aplicando presion directa o elevando la zona afectada por encima de la altura del corazon. Para evitar riesgos de infeccion, no cierra la herida. * Enjuague la mordedura a conciencia, mantenien- dola bajo el agua corriente. Lave con agua y jabon y mantenga bajo el agua otra vez por 5 minutos. * No aplique ni unguentos ni medicinas sobre la herida. Cubra con vendas o gasas esteriles secas. * Consiga inmediatamente asistencia medica. * Nota: informe mordeduras animales o humanas a la oficina local de policia y/o autoridades sanitarias. PICADURAS DE ABEJA * Si se puede, quitar aguijon raspando con un borde romo (x.e. tarjeta de credito). * Limpiar herida y aplicar compresas frias para reducir la hinchazon. * Quitar ropas ajustadas y accesorios de zonas proximas a la picadura en casos de hinchazon. * Controlar señal de convulsiones o reacciones alergicas. Las señales incluyen hinchazon o pica- zon en la zona de la picadura, mareos, nauseas o dificultades para respirar. Busque atencion medica inmediata si ocurre alguno de estos casos. * Siga controlando que la victima no entre en shock hasta que llegue la ayuda medica. * Revise las vias aereas, respiracion y circulacion sanguinea de la victima (VRC). Si VRC no es satisfactoria debe llamar al 911 y empezar el PCR (Procedimiento Cardio Respiratorio). IMPORTANTE: El PCR deberia hacerlo solo el personal cualificado y entrenado. Basicamente, es: paciente recostado boca arriba. 4 masajes sobre corazon profundos y luego meter aire por la boca 2 veces al ritmo de la cancion... STAYING ALIVE (estribillo) Repetir hasta que se recobre. PSICOSOMATICA El Dr Sarno dice: LA PENA QUE NO SALE EN LAGRIMAS HACE LLORAR OTROS ORGANOS El Dr. Torres dice: EL CUERPO GRITA ... LO QUE LA BOCA CALLA La enfermedad es un conflicto entre la personalidad y el alma". -Bach. Algunas veces... el resfrío "chorrea" cuando el cuerpo no llora. El dolor de garganta "tapona" cuando no es posible comunicar las aflicciones. El estómago arde cuando las rabias no consiguen salir. La diabetes invade cuando la soledad duele. El cuerpo engorda cuando la insatisfacción aprieta. El dolor de cabeza deprime cuando las dudas aumentan. El corazón afloja cuando el sentido de la vida parece terminar. La alergia aparece cuando el perfeccionismo está intolerable. Las uñas se quiebran cuando las defensas están amenazadas. El pecho aprieta cuando el orgullo esclaviza. La presión sube cuando el miedo aprisiona. Las neurosis paralizan cuando el niño interior tiraniza. La fiebre calienta cuando las defensas explotan las fronteras de la inmunidad. Las rodillas duelen cuando tu orgullo no se doblega. El cáncer mata cuando no perdonas y/o te cansas de "vivir". ¿Y tus dolores callados? ¿Cómo hablan en tu cuerpo? La Enfermedad no es mala, te avisa que te estas equivocando de camino. ​8 Basic Life-Saving Skills Everyone Should Know survival < http://lifehacker.com/8-basic-life-saving-skills-everyone-should-know-1469632767 > ~ Melanie Pinola We've featured a ton of survival and MacGyver tips over the years that could help you out of a fix, but what if you're next to someone else who's having an emergency? Don't just stand there as the person chokes or faints! Know what to do in these life-or-death situations. [ Related : In-Flight Emergency: When the Masks Come Down ] Before we start, the very first thing you should do is call for emergency help (or if someone else is around make sure they call 911). Then, while you're waiting, see what you can do to help the person. Also, make your safety a priority too. As flight attendants emphasize before takeoff, when the oxygen mask comes down, you have to secure yours first—otherwise you're of no use to anyone else. These things in mind, you don't need to be an Emergency Medical Technician or other health pro to possibly save someone's life one day. Here are a few things to know. How to Perform CPR When you think "life-saving skills," the first thing that probably comes to mind is CPR, the technique that could make all the difference for someone who has collapsed and is under cardiac arrest. It's always best to take a class, so you know the proper procedures and have practiced them beforehand, but even without official training you could save a life if no one else is around with more CPR experience. Solely watching a one-minute instruction video about CPR could make you a better life-saver. "Hands-only" CPR can be done for anyone (except newborns) whose heart has stopped beating, according to the American Heart Association/Mayo Clinic. With this technique, also known as "compression-only" CPR, you press down about 2 inches deep on the chest at a rate of about 100 times per minute until the paramedics arrive—and skip the giving breath part. According to one medical review examiner, singing the BeeGees' song "Stayin' Alive" will help you keep that tempo. (Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" is another alternative, but probably not appropriate in this situation). What to Do If Someone May Be Having a Heart Attack With one out of every seven deaths happening in the US because of heart disease, it's important to know the common signs of heart attacks and what you can do to help a person going through it. Sometimes the symptoms are obviously cardiac arrest (which would require CPR, above), and at other times they're not so dramatic and could just seem like heartburn. After calling for help, if the person is over the age of 16 and confirms he/she isn't allergic to aspirin—and isn't taking any medications that could interact with it—offer a tablet of aspirin, which the Mayo Clinic says could reduce damage to the heart. [ Related : Here Are Your Odds of Dying from the Most Common Causes of Death | ER or Tums: How to Know If Your Post-Thanksgiving Stomach Requires Medical Attention ] How to Help Someone Who Is Choking [ Related: The Red Cross Has Updated its First Aid Guidelines for Choking Victims ] In restaurants everywhere, you see posters illustrating how to do the Heimlich maneuver when the person's airway is blocked by food or another object. Chances are those posters aren't in your home or out in the street as you go about your everyday life, so this first aid technique, demonstrated in the video above, is useful to memorize for any environment. Note: before doing the abdominal thrusts, give five blows to the person's back with the heel of your hand. There are different techniques for children and infants, whose small tracheas and propensity to swallow random objects put the fear of choking into every parent. How to Save Someone Who's Drowning Drowning is one of the most common causes of accidental death, especially among children. If you're not a skilled swimmer who knows how to swim with a possibly flailing person, the most important thing to know is that swimming out to the person should be the last resort. Family Doctor offers this mnemonic: "Reach, throw, row, go" ☐ Reach: If the person is near the edge of a pool or dock, lie flat on the ground and try to reach the person. Use a tree branch, oar, towel, or shepherd's hook to lengthen your reach. If you have to, get in the water and hold onto the pool edge or dock while trying to reach the person ☐ Throw: Throw a safety ring, if available ☐ Row: Get a boat (again, if one's available) ☐ Go: Swim out as the last resort. Bring a rescue safety ring, towel, or shirt with you so you can tow the person in. How to Treat Bleeding There are different kinds of bleeding, from a minor scrape to the most dangerous type, arterial bleeding. In either case, your goal is to stop the bleeding as soon as possible. According to the Mayo Clinic, after washing your hands and putting on gloves (if available; a clean plastic bag could suffice), you should: ☐ Have the person lie down and cover him or her with a blanket. ☐ Elevate the site of bleeding. ☐ Remove any obvious dirt or debris from the wound, but leave any large or deeply embedded objects. ☐ Apply continuous pressure with a clean cloth or bandage for at least 20 minutes without looking to see if the bleeding has stopped. ☐ Add more gauze if you need to. ☐ If the bleeding doesn't stop, apply pressure to the artery: "Pressure points of the arm are on the inside of the arm just above the elbow and just below the armpit. Pressure points of the leg are just behind the knee and in the groin. Squeeze the main artery in these areas against the bone. Keep your fingers flat. With your other hand, continue to exert pressure on the wound itself." ☐ Leave the bandages in place and immobilize the injured body part once the bleeding has stopped. How to Treat a Burn Large or severe burns should be treated by a medical professional, but Dr. Matthew Hoffman offers this advice on WebMD for steps you can take: Immediately after a burn, run cool tap water over the skin for 10 minutes. Then, cool the skin with a moist compress. Don't put ice, butter or anything else directly on the burned skin. Clean the skin gently with mild soap and tap water. Take acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Motrin, [Advil]) for pain. Simple burns involving only the very surface of the skin do not need dressings. The BBC, however, recommends running cold water for at least 20 minutes, as this can help for up to three hours, and also advises you remove clothing and jewelry. (That butter remedy really is a myth, by the way. Apparently people would put yogurt, tomato paste, raw egg whites, sliced potatoes, and even cooking oil on a burn. Butter might be useful if you have hot tar on your skin, but otherwise save those other items for your meals instead.) How to Deliver Baby in a Car (or Anywhere Else) The fear of every pregnant woman and her partner: Having to deliver the baby without help. This might not be a priority life skill for you if you don't often find yourself in the company of a pregnant lady, but one of the things about survival skills is you never know when you're going to need them. So, take this advice from The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, which says that babies basically deliver themselves (but still could use a little help): ☐ Time the uterine contractions. You'll know it's most likely real rather than false when contractions are about three to five minutes apart and last forty to ninety seconds, as well as increasing in strength and frequency, for at least an hour. This is for first-time mothers. ☐ Support the baby's head and then body as it moves out of the mother's body ☐ Dry off the baby and keep it warm. Don't slap the baby's bottom, but do clear out any fluid from the baby's mouth with your fingers if necessary. ☐ Tie off the umbilical cord several inches from the baby with a piece of string (e.g., a shoelace). ☐ You don't have to cut the cord unless you're hours from the hospital. If that's the case, safely cut the cord by tying it again a few inches closer to the mother and cutting between the knots. If you have absolutely no alternative and the baby is starting to emerge feet first (a breech baby), the instructions are the same. How to Carry Someone Heavier Than You Usually it's best to leave a person who's hurt where they are until medical help comes. You should never move a person who might have a head, neck, or spinal injury. In other cases, however, you might need to move someone to a safer location. If you're not very strong or that person is heavier than you, here's how to lift that person without hurting yourself in the process: ☐ With the person facing you, take the person's arm and pull it over your shoulder ☐ Kneel down or crouch down so the person's middle is against your shoulder ☐ Thrust up with your legs and hips to stand. Don't lean forward or you'll hurt your back. ☐ The person will now be hung over your shoulder and you can walk around. WikiHow offers illustrated steps. It also recommends trying this on small people or children first, which could be awkward or entertaining depending on the guinea pig. Hopefully you'll never need to put any of these life-saving tips into play, but whether you have a first aid kit on your pocket or not, at least you'll know what to do just in case. Bonus: Here's a printable two-page guide (PDF) to treating a few other common injuries, including a bleeding nose and sprains, from Real Simple. 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Clave M.O.R.S.E y su equivalente valor ASCII ( * ) The unit is the time required to signal a dot. ( __ ) A dash lasts the equivalence of three dots. (x) A silence between each character is of three dots. (pause) A silence between each word is of seven dots. [Example]__________(sending SOS)_____ | S |x\ O /x| S |pause\ |*** __ __ __ *** (repeat) |....,....,....,....,....,... International Morse code is composed of five elements: * short mark, dot or "dit" (·) : "dot duration" is 1 unit long * longer mark, dash or "dah" (_) : 3 units long * inter-element gap between the dots and dashes within a character : 1 dot duration or 1 unit long * short gap (between letters) : 3 units long * medium gap (between words) : 7 units long[1] Morse code cannot be represented as a binary code. In an abstract sense, this is the function that telegraph operators perform when transmitting messages. Working from the above definitions and further defining a 'unit' as a bit, we can visualize any Morse code sequence as a combination of the following five elements: short mark, dot or "dit" ( * ) : 1 (100) longer mark, dash or "dah" ( _ ) : 111 (300) intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) : 0 (100) short gap (between letters) : 000 (300) medium gap (between words) : 0000000 (700) Note that this method assumes that dits and dahs are always separated by dot duration gaps, and that gaps are always separated by dits and dahs. bit speed (dot): T = 1200 / W or T = 6000 / C T(miliseconds lapse of a bit), W(number of words /minute i.e. 15) o C(number of characters / minute i.e. 60) Pulse or bit or dot or intercode space in a character: 1200 / 15 = 80 miliseconds or 6000 / 60 = 100 miliseconds Dot : 100 , Dash : 300 , Silence : 100 , Intercharacter : 300 , Interword : 700 Prosigns for Morse code Meaning | Code ------------------------+--------------------- Wait = * _ * * * Error = * * * * * * * * Understood = * * * _ * Invitation to transmit = _ * _ End of work = * * * _ * _ Starting Signal = _ * _ * _ Dichotomic Method: A graphical representation of the dichotomic search table: the user branches left at every dot and right at every dash until the character is finished. (Interpretation as we are receiving...) T _ M _ _ O _ _ _ CH _ _ _ _ Ö _ _ _ * G _ _ * Q _ _ * _ Z _ _ * * N _ * K _ * _ Y _ * _ _ C _ * _ * D _ * * X _ * * _ B _ * * * E * A * _ W * _ _ J * _ _ _ P * _ _ * R * _ * Ä * _ * _ L * _ * * I * * U * * _ Ü * * _ _ F * * _ * S * * * V * * * _ H * * * * 0 ----- 481 *---- 492 **--- 503 ***-- 514 ****- 525 ***** 536 -**** 547 --*** 558 ---** 569 ----* 57@ --*- 64A *- 65B -*** 66C -*-* 67CH ---- D -** 68E * 69F **-* 70G --* 71H **** 72I ** 73J *--- 74K -*- 75L *-** 76M -- 77N -* 78O --- 79P *--* 80Q --*- 81R *-* 82S *** 83T - 84U **- 85V ***- 86W *-- 87X -**- 88Y -*-- 89Z --** 90Ä -*-*- 142Í ---* 214Ü **-- 220CHARMORSE(*:.,-:-)ASCII Be prepared for breakdowns and roadside car problems like flats, dead batteries, and mechanical trouble with this glovebox guide to emergency maintenance. [2014/01/07 - 17:06] This post originally appeared on The Family Handyman. Copyright © 2010 The Family Handyman magazine. All Rights Reserved. When you're dealing with roadside emergencies, it's always better to have a plan of attack than a panic attack. A few simple preparations, including an inexpensive emergency kit, will get you through most breakdowns and accidents. Emergency Kit You're already familiar with the standard kit you hear about every fall, which includes a blanket, candy bars, a candle, and all that other stuff. That kit is a good idea. But there are a few additional items you should stock in every vehicle you own, along with this guide. By the way, seriously consider joining a roadside assistance plan. Even seasoned mechanics aren't too proud to belong to one. One tow or a jump start on a freezing day and the annual fee will pay for itself. Build This Emergency Kit2 ☐ Your car's owner's manual. If you don't have one, get one from your dealer. It'll show you how to change a tire, explain what all the warning lights mean, list part numbers for lightbulbs, and provide the fluid types and capacities so you can refill with the right stuff. ☐ This LED Flameless Flare lasts much longer than an ordinary flaming road flare. Attach the magnetic base to your vehicle and set it to flashing mode to warn other drivers. ☐ Spiral notebook and mechanical pencil (writes in any position or weather and needs no sharpening). Use to record accident information, police report numbers, phone numbers, etc. ☐ A cheap prepaid cell phone and a car charger. Even if you already own a cell phone, get one to keep in your glove box. Inexpensive phones and chargers are available at discount stores or online and can be reloaded with minutes from the side of the road.3 What Warning Lights Mean Oil light on. The engine has low oil pressure. Check the oil level and add oil if you have some with you. Otherwise, have the vehicle towed to a repair shop. Driving a vehicle with low oil pressure can cause catastrophic engine damage.4 Brake light on. Check the operation of the brake pedal. If it feels spongy or goes to the floor, stop driving and have the vehicle towed to a service facility. If the pedal feels firm and the brakes stop the vehicle, check the brake fluid level in the reservoir. If it's low, add more brake fluid. If the light stays on after you've added fluid but the pedal is still firm, have the vehicle serviced as soon as possible.5 Airbag/SRS light on. The airbags have shut down and will not work if you get into an accident. Get the vehicle serviced soon.6 Traction control/stability control light on. There's a problem with the system. You can still drive the vehicle, but exercise extra caution on slippery roads and in turns. Have the system serviced soon. "Check engine" light on. If the engine's running smoothly and the transmission is shifting properly, you can continue to drive the vehicle until you can get it checked by a mechanic. If it's flashing, pull over at the nearest safe spot. Have the vehicle towed to a repair shop immediately. Driving with a flashing "check engine" light can destroy expensive ($1,200 and up) emissions components.7 Charging system light on. There's a major failure with the charging system. Drive immediately to the nearest repair shop. ABS light on. There's a fault in the anti-lock brake system. You can drive the vehicle and operate the brakes. But exercise more caution on slippery roads. Get the problem checked out soon. High temperature. Pull over at the nearest safe spot and turn off the engine. DO NOT open the radiator or the coolant reservoir. Have the vehicle immediately towed to a repair shop. Driving an overheated vehicle can cause serious engine damage costing thousands of dollars to repair. How to Jump-Start a Dead Battery ☐ Turn off the ignition and all electrical accessories in both vehicles. ☐ Connect the positive jumper clamp (marked "+" or colored red) to the remote terminals on the good vehicle. They're located away from the battery. If you cannot find the remote terminals, connect the positive ("+") jumper clamp to the positive ("+") battery terminals. Then do the same on the dead vehicle. ☐ Connect the negative jumper clamp (marked "–" or colored black) to the remote negative terminal on the dead vehicle. Then connect the clamp to the good vehicle. If the vehicles don't have remote terminals, connect the negative jumper clamp to an unpainted metal surface at least 18 in. away from the battery. ☐ Start the good vehicle and let it charge up the dead battery for at least five minutes. Then try to start the dead vehicle with the cables still in place. If it doesn't start, call for service. Warning! Connecting the jumper cables in the wrong order or attaching the spring clamps in the wrong location can damage expensive electrical components and even cause an explosion. Your owner's manual leads you through the procedure step by step. Follow it to the letter! If you don't understand the procedure, call a tow truck. Automotive batteries can vent explosive hydrogen gas when they are discharged. Do not smoke when jump-starting, and don't use jumper cables with cracked or missing insulation.8 How to Get Unstuck Place the gearshift in "1" or "low." Press the accelerator and allow the spinning wheels to move the vehicle forward a bit (do not exceed 15 mph on the speedometer). Then release the gas and let the vehicle roll backward. Immediately apply the gas to roll forward again. Continue this procedure to build enough momentum to rock your vehicle out of the rut. Do NOT shift the transmission back and forth between "D" and "R." That can destroy your transmission and result in a repair bill of at least $1,500. If you cannot rock the vehicle out using the procedure above, call a towing service—it's cheaper than a new transmission. How to Change a Flat Tire Use a Tire Repair Kit to Plug a Tire Leak Instead of Ruining the Tire with Spray Can Repairs Sure anyone can use a can of Fix-A-Flat to quickly get them back on the road but you'll mostly likely have to replace the tire instead of… Changing a tire is fairly straightforward. You'll find all the instructions on a decal near the jack and in the owner's manual. But in some situations, you should not change your own tire.9 If you have a flat tire on a highway or narrow residential street and the flat tire is on the driver's side of the vehicle, call for roadside assistance. Even if you pull off onto a paved shoulder, the risk of being struck by another vehicle is extremely high—especially at night.10 If the highway has a narrow or unpaved shoulder and there's a nearby exit, you can drive the vehicle to the exit and call for help once you're off the main road. Turn on your hazard flashers and drive slowly. Be warned that you will most likely destroy the tire and possibly the wheel by driving to the exit. But that's smarter than changing a flat tire on a busy shoulder. What to Do If You're in an Accident ☐ Check for injuries. If anyone is injured, call 911 immediately. Do not move injured occupants unless you see fire, suspect the risk of fire, or are instructed to do so by 911 operators. ☐ Find out your location. Note the street address, highway mile marker, destination sign or nearest billboard. Emergency personnel and your insurance company need this information. ☐ Note the weather conditions, skid marks and the damage to the other vehicle. Sketch the accident scene. ☐ Locate any witnesses and get their account of the accident and their name, address and phone numbers. ☐ Don't admit to any fault. ☐ Get a copy of the police report or find out how to obtain a copy. ☐ Don't make any "deals" to pay out-of-pocket in order to avoid notifying your insurance company. Your policy requires you to report the accident even if you choose not to file a claim. ☐ Contact a towing service to move your vehicle to a repair shop, and make arrangements to get home. ☐ Call your insurance company to report the accident and file a claim. 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GUIA | DICCIONARIO | TITULO AUTOMOTRIZ GUIA PRACTICA PARA COMPRAR UN AUTO 14/09/2011 10:31:40 PM < http://www.elamaule.cl/admin/render/noticia/16959 > En esta pequena guia doy ciertas recomendaciones para que la compra de un auto, ya sea nuevo o usado no se transforme en un drama, sino en una feliz realidad fruto de nuestro esfuerzo, espero les sirva. __ Juan Jose Alfaro [ 04 de Agosto,2008 08:08 ] Agosto es un mes de muchos ofertones en materia de autos nuevos, ya que es el ultimo mes en que se facturan como ano 2008, ya que a contar del 1 de septiembre se consideraran modelos 2009. Por tanto siempre surgen muchas preguntas entre quienes quieren comprar un auto cero kilometro o bien comprar un auto usado, asi que en esta columna dare ciertos tips que espero les sirvan a las personas que van a comprar un auto, ya sea por renovacion, o como primer auto, y especialmente para las mujeres que mucho no saben de autos, o aquellos hombres a los que las tuercas le suenan lejanas. Desde que era un nino que me han llamado la atencion los autos, mis primeros juguetes lo fueron, y desde ahi que espere con ansias mi mayoria de edad para obtener mi licencia de conductor. Al comprar un auto nuevo debemos hacernos algunas preguntas basicas, la primera: cual sera el fin que le daremos al auto?, es decir, sera un auto familiar, sera un auto personal, lo ocuparemos solo en ciudad, o mayoritariamente en carretera, o al reves, mayoritariamente en ciudad. Cuando nos respondemos esa pregunta, pasamos al tema del presupuesto con que contamos, para que dentro de ese rango de precios busquemos la alternativa mas atractiva y que responda tambien a nuestras necesidades, aunque existen muchas personas que compran por impulso, y se dejan llevar por la estetica del auto mas que en sus prestaciones. Luego de acotar nuestras alternativas, debemos hacer tablas comparativas con las caracteristicas de nuestro elegidos, ya sea en cuanto a motor, hp de potencia, torque, nivel de seguridad, nivel de equipamiento, capacidad de pasajeros, rendimiento en Km. por litro, extension de la garantia voluntaria, costos de mantenciones y periodicidad de las mismas, nivel de reventa, costo de repuestos, nivel de tecnologia, es decir, si es un desarrollo reciente o no, relacion precio-producto, costo de seguro voluntario, entre otros items. Sorteada esta tabla comparativa, pasamos a una etapa un poco mas irracional, que es la de gustos personales, hay muchos autos que tienen niveles de prestaciones similares, y por tanto la decision de compra pasara por el gusto propio del comprador. Una vez elegido nuestro auto, es bueno darse el tiempo de buscar en Internet datos del mismo, en terminos de tasa de fallos, opiniones de otros duenos, y todo lo que sea relevante para decidir con conocimiento. Hay un punto que tiende a confundir a los compradores y es el origen del auto, es decir donde fue fabricado, ya que hoy la globalizacion ha permitido que los autos tengan multiples origenes, y no todos vienen del pais natural de la marca. Para saber entonces donde fue fabricado nuestro auto, debemos ver el VIN (vehicle identification number) del auto, es decir una especie de carnet de identidad del mismo, en el cual esta especificado su origen, su ano y mes de fabricacion, su modelo, su color, su motor entre otros datos relevantes. Este numero generalmente esta ubicado en la zona del motor mediante una placa alfanumerica, o bien cerca del parabrisas del mismo. Cada pais de origen tiene asignado un numero o una letra que los identifica, por ejemplo si el auto comienza su VIN con J, estaremos seguro que ese auto fue fabricado en Japon, en cambio si un VIN comienza con 8, su origen sera argentino. Otros ejemplos son, U.S.A. (1 o 4), Canada (2), Mexico (3), Corea (K), Inglaterra (S), Alemania (W), Italia (Z). Seguido al pais de origen ira una letra o numero que identificara la marca del mismo, por ejemplo si el VIN comienza con JN, sabremos a ciencia cierta que se trata de un auto Nissan fabricado en Japon, o bien si es JH, es un auto Honda fabricado en Japon, o si es 4G, sera un auto General Motors fabricado en Estados Unidos. Ya elegido nuestro auto, sabiendo su origen, sus prestaciones, etc, entra la etapa de la negociacion, si la compra es al contado debemos buscar un descuento razonable, o bien una serie de otras garantias, como puede ser alarma, primera mantencion gratis, seguro por un ano entre otras cosas. Por lo general todas las automotoras regalan pisos de goma y set de seguridad. Si la compra es a credito, debemos fijarnos en la tasa de interes, si damos un auto en parte de pago, verificar que efectivamente se haga la transferencia del mismo para ahorrarnos problemas futuros, y estar conscientes que nuestro auto nuevo quedara en prenda hasta que paguemos el total de cuotas pactadas, y pidamos el alzamiento de la misma. Antes de firmar todos los papeles, es bueno realizar una revision de pre-compra de nuestra "joyita", es decir, ver que todo funcione, velocimetro, indicador de combustible, tacometro, alzavidrios, aire acondicionado, de tenerlo, mirar que no presente rayas en su estructura, ver que el tapiz este perfecto, mirar por abajo del chasis, si tiene muestras de barro o tierra, ya que eso demostrara que el auto anduvo mas de lo normal, y quizas fue traido por tierra y no en camion al concesionario, y el auto podria tener mas kilometraje de lo que dice el odometro. Si todo esta bien a disfrutar, no olvidando que todo producto nuevo comprado en Chile, tiene una garantia legal de 3 meses, en caso de fallas, el comprador a su arbitrio puede elegir el reemplazo, la reparacion o la devolucion de lo pagado por el producto. Las otras garantias son de caracter voluntario, y solo son validas superados esos 3 meses si el comprador cumple con las pautas de mantencion en un concesionario oficial de la marca. Tampoco se puede elegir las opciones en el caso de que un auto diga que tiene garantia de 3 anos o 100 mil km, siempre terminara la garantia cuando se cumpla primero una de las dos condiciones, o el transcurso del tiempo o bien el kilometraje recorrido. El mercado de los autos nuevos espera facturar este ano unos 5000 mil millones de dolares en ventas. COMPRA AUTO USADO Comprar un auto usado puede ser una de las experiencias mas dificiles o felices para una persona, por cuanto se puede comprar una verdadera "joya", o bien comprar un sin fin de problemas que nunca acaban, y consumen mucho de nuestro dinero y buen animo. Para elegir un auto usado es prioritario no caer en la impulsividad, hay que ser muy racional, el amor a primera vista en materia de compras, puede ser fatal a diferencia del amor de pareja. Hay que partir con ciertos parametros basicos, en promedio un auto anda en Chile unos 20 mil kilometros anuales, por tanto una primera medida al comprar un auto usado es calcular el ano del mismo con la cantidad de kilometros recorridos, si el promedio supera largamente los 20000 Km. anuales, se hace necesario ser mas acucioso en la revision del mismo, no es que se trate de un auto malo, sino que requiere mas analisis. Luego viene una segunda etapa, que es una revision de la carroceria del mismo, mirar el auto de costado para ver que no existan ondulaciones en su estructura, ver que no existan cambios en el color de la pintura, ver que en los bordes no existan signos de oxido, abrir el capot y ver que no existan muestras de soldaduras en el chasis, ni restos de pintura que puedan dar signos de un choque frontal. La tercera etapa es la mas complicada, que es verificar el estado del motor, hay personas que para poner su auto en venta, lo arreglan a medias, solo para que funcione, asi que hay que poner mucho ojo. Al dar arranque al motor, este debe ser prolijo e inmediato, el sonido del motor debe ser parejo, nada de ruidos metalicos, ni roces se deben escuchar, tampoco deben existir olor a aceite quemado durante la combustion. Una revision visual del motor nos dara luces de su estado, ver que todo este en su lugar, que no existan alambres, ni nada por estilo sosteniendo cables o partes del motor. Verificar en caso de que sea un auto seminuevo, que se le hayan realizado las mantenciones correspondientes que indica el manual de garantia, este debe estar firmado y timbrado por un concesionario de la marca en cuestion. En esta etapa es muy recomendable asesorarse por un mecanico en la compra, o bien llevar el auto a un taller especializado y someterlo a un scanner y analisis basico, que incluya sistema de frenos, motor, lubricacion, componentes de comodidad, etc. Escogido nuestro auto y acordado el precio con el comprador, es recomendable verificar que quien dice ser dueno, realmente lo sea, para eso es aconsejable con el numero de patente pedir un certificado de dominio vigente del auto en el Registro Civil. Tambien consultar en el SEBV, si existe algun encargo de robo del mismo, comprobar que el numero de motor y chasis que aparece en el padron, sean los mismos que tiene el auto. Con todo en orden, comprador y vendedor se pueden dirigir hasta una oficina del Registro Civil, y realizar una declaracion consensual, en la cual acuerdan la venta del automovil. Esta tiene un valor de $ 4.830 pesos. Luego se debe cancelar el impuesto a la transferencia, que corresponde al 1.5 % del valor de la venta, que se paga en un banco o institucion autorizada. Pagado ese impuesto se vuelve a la oficina del registro civil, donde se efectua la transferencia del dominio, que tiene un valor de $ 19. 750 pesos. En este momento se le entrega al comprador su padron que lo acredita como dueno del mismo, y este cancela la suma acordada como precio de venta al vendedor. Por regla general los gastos de la venta son de cargo del comprador, salvo acuerdo en contrario. Y a disfrutar. Es recomendable y no en todos los casos, realizar a un auto usado el correspondiente cambio de aceite y correas, especialmente la de distribucion, si el auto tiene mas de 60 mil kilometros. Ademas es dable en el mismo acto cambiar el rodamiento tensor de la misma y la bomba de agua, ya que un corte de correa de distribucion puede dejar como saldo una cuantiosa reparacion del motor. Espero que les haya servido esta pequena guia, que solo intento ayudar en la medida de un consumidor promedio, no especialista en el rubro. DICCIONARIO AUTOMOTRIZ ABS: sistema electronico de frenado que permite que las ruedas del auto no se bloqueen durante el frenaje, lo que le otorga una mayor seguridad a la conduccion. AIRBAG: sistema de seguridad pasiva que consiste en bolsas de aire que se inflan al producirse una colision, deben ser usados junto a un sistema de cinturones de seguridad con pretensores. CIERRE CENTRALIZADO: sistema que permite abrir todas las puertas del auto accionando un solo boton o el giro de la cerradura. HP (Horse Power): unidad de medidad que usa para calcular la potencia de un motor. DIRECCION ASISTIDA: sistema hidraulico o electronico que disminuye la fuerza que debe aplicar el conductor para mover la direccion del auto, otorgando una mayor maniobrabilidad o comodidad. LLANTAS DE ALEACION: como su nombre lo dice son llantas confeccionadas a partir de la aleacion de diferentes metales, logrando resultados esteticos superiores a las llantas de acero, y generalmente de un peso menor a las convencionales, siendo mas caras que las normales. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU NEED TO DO WHEN SELLING A CAR SteveLehto [ 2014/10/06 - 13:00 ] < http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/the-most-important-thing-you-need-to-do-when-selling-a-1642449058/+whitsongordon?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29 > If you sell your car privately it is vitally important that you make sure the change in ownership is properly documented with the state. Otherwise, it could haunt you. I often represent people who have bought defective cars and I have been discussing automobile sales with people now for 23 years. While many people focus on the car they are buying, the car they are selling needs some attention as well. Especially if you are selling it to an individual. In most instances, a person can sell something to someone else by agreement. You and I agree that my widget will cost you $100. You pay me $100 and I hand you the widget. Deal done. Of course, an attorney might tell you that if you want to be extra careful you could document the transaction by creating a Bill of Sale or some sort of receipt but in most instances the "handshake" deal would be sufficient. An automobile has one further level of intricacy: The Certificate of Title. Most states track ownership of vehicles through the titling process. At any moment in time, someone can verify ownership of a vehicle by asking the state to confirm the last titled owner for a given Vehicle Identification Number. For example, if the State Police fished a car out of the local reservoir and were curious about its owner. Now, you want to sell your vehicle. You run an ad and find a buyer. The buyer comes over, looks at the car, kicks the tires and agrees to buy it. He hands you cash and you sign the title over to him. He drives off with the car and you have a pile of cash. Are you good with that transaction? Not necessarily. At this moment in time, the state still shows you as the titled owner of that vehicle. Suppose the buyer leaves your place, buys some crack and then smokes it while speeding through the nearby playground, running over children in a fashion that will make national headlines. True, they will arrest the driver but someone will also likely run a check to see whose car it is. Why? Among other things, many states have Owner Liability. That is, the owner of a vehicle is liable for things which are done with it. You might argue that this car is not yours anymore since you sold it a few minutes earlier. After all, you have some cash to prove it. Wait - Cash proves what now? There's that title you gave to the buyer – that's still around somewhere, right? Over the years I have heard many variations of what can go wrong with these deals. The guy who sold a car and several years later found out that the car had been abandoned after being ticketed repeatedly for being left on the street with no license plates. The state said all of the tickets and the impound fees were his responsibility because no one ever bothered to retitle or reregister the car. Or the sellers who have been sued shortly after the sale because the new owners hadn't gotten a new title, plates or insurance before getting in their first accident with the car. That Owner Liability thing I mentioned above caused sellers to get dragged into messy lawsuits. What could have been done to avoid this? Once you strike a deal, tell the buyer to meet you at the local DMV, Secretary of State's, or whatever your state calls the place that does car titles, license plates, and so on. This will allow the two of you to stand at the counter and apply for the new title together. AND, this way the buyer can also get license plates and drive the car off legally. Haven't you always wondered about those people who buy used cars privately and then drive home in them? I mean, everyone does it. It must be legal, right? Yes, this will be a slight inconvenience because it most likely means you cannot close the deal on a Sunday and the nearest office might be a few miles away. But at least you won't be getting that 4 a.m. phone call telling you that the State Police just fished your car out of the reservoir and they have a few questions: 1) Whose body is that in the trunk? 2) Is the 19 pounds of crystal meth in the trunk yours? 3) Will you be paying the $5,000 car retrieval costs by cash or credit? And 4) When can you meet with the EPA to discuss the remediation costs for the motor oil and gasoline with which your car just contaminated the county's water supply? Steve Lehto < Twitter: @stevelehto > is a writer and attorney and has been practicing consumer protection and Michigan lemon law for 23 years. He taught Consumer Protection at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law for ten years and wrote The Lemon Law Bible. He also wrote Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation and The Great American Jet Pack: The Quest of the Ultimate Individual Lift Device. 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