One sees or understands only when the mind is quiet.

1. To look without a concept is to be aware of the observer and the thing observed- 20 May 1967Duration: 88 minutes Violence and sorrow are not limited to the West or the East; it is part of thehuman structure, psychologically. Is it possible to bring about a change radically, a total revolution in the psycheitself, not through time? The first and last freedom is when the mind is totally free from concepts andthe mechanical process of building a formula. It is an art to look, which is much more important than any art in the world, anypainting, music or book; because when we can look so totally and completely,being directly in contact, there is an ending. Q: If one has cancer, how can one be free from death?2. Where there is pleasure there is the shadow of pain - 21 May 1967Duration: 83 minutes The whole movement of living, which is relationship, is a movement in action. What is consciousness? When do you say, I am conscious, I am aware, I amattentive ? Is there actually a division between the conscious and the unconscious, or it isa total movement, operating all the time? The mind that pursues pleasure must inevitably invite its opposite, which ispain. The two go together; they are not separate. You cannot see totally when you are making effort. Q: If you love your own child, your attention to your child is fairly complete, butif you are a teacher you cannot give attention to all the students. 3. Is it possible to renew the mind? - 24 May 1967Duration: 81 minutes When the mind is living through imagination and thought, it is incapable ofliving in the complete fullness of the present. Thought has created time, not chronological time but psychological time. Thatis, I will be, I should be. Is it possible for the brain to be quiet, to give an interval between the old andthe new? This interval is the timeless nature in which thought cannot possiblyenter. That which has continuity is repetitive, which is time. It s only when timecomes to an end there is something new taking place. To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over anyproblem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear. Since love is not desire or pleasure, how does one come upon it? Q: Is the feeling of responsibility a part of the order and discipline you weretalking about? Q: Why don t people get angry with what you are saying?4. Can thought stop? - 28 May 1967Duration: 72 minutes When there is a process of recognition it is the projection of the past. The mindis always functioning within the field of time, which is of memory. Can themind go beyond that? What is pleasure and what is desire? How is it possible, without control, subjugation or denying, for thought not toallow itself to interfere? When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out foryourself. When you are completely attentive, you see. It is only love that sees - notthought, the mind or the intellect. One has to learn how to look, how to hear. Q: Could you distinguish between what you mean by the word recognizing and being aware ? Q: How is one to break off a concept that one has carefully built?5. It is only a very silent mind that can actually see - 30 May 1967Duration: 82 minutes Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence. A mind that is in a state of inquiry is entirely different from a mind that isseeking. Seeking implies effort, conformity, authority and therefore conflict. Without space in which there is no boundary, the mind is incapable of comingupon immeasurable reality. It is only a silent mind that can perceive, actually see, not a chattering mind, acontrolled mind, a mind that is tortured, suppressed, yielding or indulging. When one has totally denied the psychological world which man has created,and the psychological structure of society of which we are, then there is spaceand silence. Q: Could you define contemplation and meditation? Q: It is not possible ever to observe totally one s own irrational thoughts. Q: What does it mean to stand alone?6. What does it mean to be totally free? - 24 May 1967Duration: 96 minutes What takes place when one falls in love? Why has sex taken on such extraordinary importance? How will you know that it is stupid to be a nationalist? You see or understand only when the mind is quiet, when you are awarewithout any choice. When I say, I love you, I have blocked myself from looking at you. Is it possibleto look totally impersonally and yet be completely intimate? One takes a drug and has an extraordinary experience. At the base of this is thedemand for wider and deeper experiences. Why do you want experience?7. When one observes a fact without knowledge then one can learn - 28 May 1967Duration: 82 minutes Why do we dream at all? Isn t dreaming at night a waste of energy, when the brain needs to becompletely at rest? When do you actually learn? When I learn through Freud about myself I am not observing myself, I amobserving the image which Freud has created about me. Can you do nothing, psychologically? If two people are quarrelling and one stops, what takes place? The more we talk together, the more we communicate together, the clearer itbecomes. 8. Is there such thing as free will? - 31 May 1967Duration: 80 minutes Is freedom partial? Why should I be bound to destiny? Born in India with the tremendous culturaltraditions, why should I be caught in it? Man is more important than the frame into which he is put. Is it possible for a human being to free himself from society, psychologically? Human beings have to change, and will thought change us? Man is society, has created the society in which we live. Are you influenced to change from outside or do you change from yourself? To change according to a pattern is no change at all.