Intelligence is the capacity to see the truth that thought is limited
Public Talk 1
An intelligence in which there is complete security
Public Talk 1 Ojai, California
April 02, 1977
Is there any security, psychologically, at all? When you try to find psychological security in a nation, that nation is different from another nation, therefore naturally there is division. Part of the consciousness of man is the demand for, and attachment to, a fragment, in which he hopes to find security. Complete transformation of that fragment, in which man has invested, can only come about when there is intelligence, which is perception. Note: a total of 37 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
Public Talk 2
The source of conflict
Public Talk 2 Ojai, California
April 03, 1977
It is only in the unoccupied mind that a new seed of learning can take place. Is it possible to live a life without a single effort? If there is effort there is no peace. Our whole consciousness, or most of it, is conditioned to accept a life of constant struggle. We want to achieve, to become, to play a certain part, to fulfil, which all implies the denial of ‘what is’ and the acceptance of ‘what should be’. Can you put away the opposite and just look at violence, which is the fact? The non-violence is not a fact. Where there is absolute order there is no conflict. Note: a total of 45 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
Public Discussion 1
How does one transform oneself?
Public Discussion 1 Ojai, California
April 05, 1977
How does one start to bring about a deep, radical psychological revolution? Change implies a continuity of ‘what is’, modified, whereas transformation is something entirely different: the ending of ‘what is’. If you are aware that you are caught in a directional movement, how do you end that movement? What is relationship? Note: a total of 5 minutes and 3 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
Public Discussion 2
The relationship of experience and thought
Public Discussion 2 Ojai, California
April 07, 1977
Q: Will thought and experiencing always remain, or appear to be as opposites, or is there an understanding which can bridge this gap? Is there a thinking without words? Thought can never realise anything new because it is the response of memory, the old. There can be the new only when thought stops. Is 'relationship' between two images relationship? Why does thought seek permanency? Note: a total of 33 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
Public Talk 3
Can man radically transform himself psychologically?
Public Talk 3 Ojai, California
April 09, 1977
Observation implies no choice. Is it possible to be free of the desire for power? Desire arises through perception, through contact, through sensation, and thought. Thought then creates the image. If you see the importance and urgency of the fact that as long as you have an image you are going to be hurt, then you never create an image. What is the root of fear? Time ceases when there is only ‘what is’.
Public Talk 4
The art of listening, seeing, learning and living
Public Talk 4 Ojai, California
April 10, 1977
We are so full of our own conclusions, experiences, problems, judgements that we have no space in which to listen. The art of seeing is to see things as they are, not as you wish to see them. The art of learning implies freedom to observe, to listen without prejudice, without argumentation, without any emotional or romantic responses. Why has man given pleasure such extraordinary importance? Why have we made pleasure more dominant than love? To put pleasure, enjoyment and joy in their right place is the art of living. As long as your relationship is based on remembrance of things of the past, then you are not related. Note: a total of 37 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
Public Discussion 3
Education and conditioning
Public Discussion 3 Ojai, California
April 12, 1977
What is the intention, the meaning of education? What is the relationship between the educator and the student? There is no teacher separate from the taught. The teacher isn’t merely one who gives information, but one who is deeply concerned with the student, which means he is concerned with himself as well. What does it mean to be conditioned? How can the conditioned teacher talk about the unconditioned state? There is no temporary happiness, no temporary enlightenment, no temporary glory. Either it is complete or not. It is never fragmentary. What do you do with your children who are attracted to violence? Note: a total of 48 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
Public Discussion 4
Intellect and intelligence
Public Discussion 4 Ojai, California
April 14, 1977
What is the intellect? Is thought mechanical? If thought is fragmentary, and the intellect also fragmentary, is intelligence part of this fragmentation? Intelligence is the capacity to see the truth that thought is limited. It can only come into being when thought has its right place. When there is no ‘me’, attention is intelligence. Can you look at yourself without any previous conclusions? Note: a total of 36 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
Public Talk 5
Love and death
Public Talk 5 Ojai, California
April 16, 1977
When there is fear, is there love? Is attachment love? What is the relationship of love to suffering? The more intense the challenge, the greater the energy demanded to meet it. Sorrow is this challenge. If you respond to it by escaping from it, seeking comfort from it, then you are dissipating the energy that you need to meet the challenge. A man who suffers does not know what love is. Continuity is part of the degenerating process of man, whereas when there is an ending to continuity something new can take place. One asks: what happens after death? We are asking quite a different question: what is before death, which is your life? Note: a total of 37 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
Public Talk 6
What is the significance of meditation?
Public Talk 6 Ojai, California
April 17, 1977
When there is no observer and jealousy occurs, it blossoms and then ends, like a flower that blooms, withers and dies away. As long as you’re fighting, resisting or rationalising, you’re giving life to it. Is there is an action which is whole and never contradictory, therefore an action that does not bring about tension, division? Meditation is the attention in which there is no registration psychologically. Out of that comes complete silence, because thought has come to an end. Thought functions only where it is absolutely necessary. Silence demands space in the whole structure of consciousness. Note: a total of 49 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.