There Is insight when thought is absent: Fourteen public Meetings Saanen Switzerland 1972

Public Talks 1. Can I see wholly? - 16 July 1972 Duration: 71 minutes • Do we act casually, expecting division to end as a result of outer environment? • Does change demand immediate attention and action? • Freeing of the mind from conditioning and in that freedom bringing about a cooperative action. • Can one who is conditioned by the past change totally? • Will change come through analysis or is there a totally different approach? • Is time needed to have relationship in which there is love and not division? • Does one of the many fragments of the ‘me’ assume authority or is the mind free to look? • Observation not investigation. • Is there analysis if there are no parts? Is analysis a waste of time? Questions from the audience followed the talk. 2. What is it to be creative? - 18 July 1972 Duration: 76 minutes • Not being deeply creative we escape from the fact of deep frustration. • Is there insight only when the mind is free of belief? • Insight without conclusion is creative action. • Why does thought draw conclusions from insight and cling to the structure of control? • I am isolated when I resist. Is aloneness insight into isolation? • Moving in insight, relationship changes. • Freedom from images is responsibility and love. • The brain needs security to function. There is security in insight, which brings intelligence. • When you don’t compare, what are you? Questions from the audience followed the talk

3. Thought and its limitations - 20 July 1972 Duration: 85 minutes • Can thought investigate something which is not of time, experience and knowledge? • What is the mind that can enter into the dimension which has no word? • Can there be a harmony in which division does not exist between the known and freedom from the known? • Is the mind such a slave to words that it cannot see the movement of thought without the word? • Will knowledge bring about a better world when used with the ‘me’? • When the body dies what happens to thought? • If I am aware that I am neurotic, in that awareness am I neurotic? Questions from the audience followed the talk

4. Can the mind be totally unconditioned? - 23 July 1972 Duration: 84 minutes • Society, culture and economic divisions have created images in us. • Can the deep hurts of the mind be wiped away so that no mark is left? Will this be done through analysis? Who is analysing? • Is hurt a problem if you do not move away from it? • Does conflict destroy the brain? • Is comparison an escape from ‘what is’? • Am I the word, the description, the thought? If I don’t compare, what am I? • Wanting to cross to the other side of the river becomes a problem. Questions from the audience followed the talk 5. Will the discovery of the cause of suffering end it? - 25 July 1972 Duration: 83 minutes • Is sorrow ignorance of oneself? • How does one go beyond loneliness? • Can thought as measurement put an end to itself? • When belief is threatened there is fear. • Can the brain have security in which every form of fear has come to an end? • Can the mind realize there is no security in the things that thought projects? • The perception of truth is security. • Can the mind invite joy? • Can one help another in crisis? Questions from the audience followed the talk 6. Pleasure, joy and death - 27 July 1972 Duration: 92 minutes • Does the mind have any existence apart from the thing to which it is attached? • Why does the mind act from a series of conclusions of thought? • How can I love you if I am attached to you? • What is the actual activity of the structure of memory which is the past? • Can the mind have an insight into conditioning and therefore tremendous energy to change it? • How do I communicate love without the word? • Is there anything permanent beyond death? Questions from the audience followed the talk 7. Religion and meditation - 30 July 1972 Duration: 88 minutes • Why have we divided life into spirit and matter? • Is religion based on the insights of a few who have established a church? • How is the mind to bring about harmony, tremendous energy and clarity? Will any act of desire bring it about? • Is the controller different from the controlled? • Why do you want any kind of experience? • Can the mind and the brain be completely still? Can you know your mind is quiet? • Quietness implies space. Is there something immeasurable beyond thought? • What job will one do if one is serious about life? Questions from the audience followed the talk

Public Discussions 8. The observer and the observed - 2 August 1972 Duration: 93 minutes • Q: How can I learn about myself? • I want to learn about myself without conclusion because conclusion prevents looking at the fact. • There is the observer and the thing observed. When there is an observer there must be division and conflict. • I am not a harmonious whole, I am fragmented because I hate and love, I am ambitious and greedy. • The observer is the cause of division. How is the observer not to divide himself? • Can the mind respond totally to every challenge so that there is no conflict and therefore no observer? 9. The problem of existence - 3 August 1972 Duration: 81 minutes • Q: What is the factor of distortion in life? • Why does a human being who wants to live a harmonious life gradually go to pieces? • What is it that goes wrong? Is it duality: the good and the bad, love and hate? • Are there opposites psychologically, or is there only one factor? • A mind that is acting in the past or in the future, that is caught in nationalism or religious beliefs, contributes to war. 10. Total attention - 4 August 1972 Duration: 90 minutes • Q: Can one sustain total attention? • When you observe the mountains, the trees or yourself with sufficient attention and energy, the observer with all its conditioning is absent. • Can one maintain this sense of total attention continuously? • Be aware of inattention. Awareness of inattention is attention. • We compare, measure, conform and identify with ideals. • The more we identify with something that gives pleasure the more we are attached to it. • What takes place when there is no identification? We then deal with facts and that gives tremendous vitality 11. Fragmentary action and total action - 5 August 1972 Duration: 81 minutes • Discussion with young people • How does youth respond to the modern challenge? • Young people live and act fragmentarily. Do you see that this is unintelligent action? • How is the mind to acquire an intelligence that will act intelligently in all things? • Do you see for yourself the challenge that the house is burning, politically, religiously, socially? How do you respond? Do you see it right away, non-verbally? • Why do we see things in words first? Words are ideas, thoughts, formulas which then become a remembrance. • There is an action which is totally complete when there is no ideation or prejudice. Being young, can you listen with a mind that is young? 12. Conclusions prevent looking - 6 August 1972 Duration: 90 minutes • Q: Is it possible to learn what observation is? • Most of us live in ideas, beliefs and concepts. Why does the mind create images, words, opinions and judgements? • The mind is lazy. It is easier to live with an image than with a fact. How am I to stop image-making? • Looking at a tree as though for the first time, its beauty brings tears to your eyes. • See the hills and shadows as you have never seen them before. See your friend, husband or wife for the first time. • See yourself without any image and realize that you are nothing. In that there is vast beauty. Then you will know what truth is 13. The sacred in life - 7 August 1972 Duration: 91 minutes • Q: What is the significance of sleep, death, dreams and meditation? • If life during the day is orderly, the brain is absolutely quiet. Sleep then is without dreams and when the brain wakes up it has vitality. • To see clearly the mind must be quiet. How is thought to be quiet? • The mind empty of thought can use thought and live with thought in harmony. This is meditation. • That which is sacred is the moment when thought is not, the quality of mind that is completely empty. • Out of emptiness, space, silence thought can operate 14. Are you aware of your conditioning? - 8 August 1972 Duration: 77 minutes • Is time needed to be free of conditioning? • We use time as measure, both outwardly and inwardly. Is time necessary for psychological understanding or to be free from habit? • The mind is conditioned religiously, psychologically and socially. Does it take time to break down conditioning? • Our life is based on conditioning and becomes mechanical. • We don’t want to go beyond the narrow field of conditioning and in that lies sorrow. • Is it possible at one glance to see the poisonous nature of all conditioning

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