Ojai 1980 - Dialogue Series

Cleansing the mind of the accumulation of time - 2 April 1980 • Time is the enemy of man. • Is there a beginning which is not enmeshed in time? • We said nothingness is everything and so it is total energy. It is undiluted pure, uncorrupted energy. Is there something beyond that? • Has man ever been free from the ‘I’? • That emptiness can only exist when there is death of the particular.

". Breaking the pattern of egocentric activity - 10 April 1980 • What will make a human being change, deeply, fundamentally, radically? • Will I, as a human being, give up my egocentric activity completely? • The more knowledge I have acquired, as I have evolved, as I have grown, as I have experienced, it has strengthened me, and I have been walking on that path for millennia. Perhaps I may have to look at this problem totally differently - which is not to walk on that path at all; discard all knowledge I have acquired. • Explanations have been the boat on which to cross to the other shore. The man on the other shore says there is no boat. Cross! • What happens to me when I meet something that is completely solid, immovable, absolutely true? • Psychological knowledge has made us dull."

Death has very little meaning - 17 April 1980 • Is there a totally different way of approaching the whole turmoil of life? • As long as the centre is creating darkness, and thought is operating in that dark ness, there must be disorder, there must be everything as society now is. To move away from that you must have insight. • Insight can only come about when there is a flash which abolishes not only the darkness but the creator of darkness. • Human beings have been acting according to one pattern, responding to hatred by hatred and so on. There are those few, perhaps many, who did not. Why has this division taken place? • The man who is living in darkness can move away at any time to the other. That is the point: at any time. • What happens to a mind that has no conflict?

Can insight be awakened in another?" - 19 April 1980 What is the relationship to society of a man who has insight? What is his action with regard to war and the whole world? Q: What is the significance of mankind in the universe, or in the ‘ground’? ‘Y’ is concerned with ‘Show me, prove it to me, what benefit it has, will I get my future...’ And he is looking at ‘X’ with the eyes that are so accustomed to this pettiness. He reduces that immensity to his pettiness and puts it in a temple, and has therefore lost it completely. But there is something so immense that ‘X’ says, ‘Please do look at this,’ and ‘Y’ translates this into, ‘Show it to me, prove it to me. Will I have a better life?’ ‘X’ brings light. That’s all he can do. To divert the course of man’s destruction somebody must listen.