Two public talks in San Francisco, 1983
Public Talk 1
Can disorder in our lives end?
Public Talk 1 San Francisco, California
April 30, 1983
Can the brain, which is the conditioned centre of thought, change radically? Thought is limited because all knowledge – past, present and future – is limited. There is no complete knowledge about anything. What you think, feel, imagine, your illusions, your gods and rituals are the result of a great deal of thinking. Without thought there is no thinker. The thinker is thought. Is knowledge, which is the movement of time and thought, necessary in our inward life? Is there psychological evolution at all? From the outer, can you move inwardly to look at the whole structure of violence, without any reaction, without naming it as violence?
Public Talk 2
When the brain is totally unconditioned, the mind is religious
Public Talk 2 San Francisco, California
May 01, 1983
What is the root of fear? Why does the brain record every incident? Why are we so crippled by desire? We suffer and we have never been able to resolve it. Where there is suffering there can be no love. Memory is something that is finished, gone. It is like living with a dead thing. Can we look at memory without running away from it? Death means the complete ending of all attachment. Is it possible to live without any attachment? What is meditation?