Public Talks 1. Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972 Duration: 76 minutes ¿ Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? ¿ To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? ¿ Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? ¿ Is thought always conditioned? Is freedom the non-existence of thought? ¿ My very being is related to thought. If you want to see something new, what do you do? ¿ To have insight, let go of the old and listen. ¿ Learning is not memorizing. ¿ Q: Is feeling another way of thinking? ¿ Q: Isn't the need to love and be loved essential? ¿ Needing love is love of self 2. If I don't change now what will the future be? - 10 September 1972 Duration: 86 minutes ¿ Is thought responsible for fragmentation? ¿ Does fragmentation have its own activity? ¿ What is the energy that perceives the total and doesn't live in fragmentation? ¿ Does comparison bring about fear and pleasure? ¿ Is thought seeking security in belief and dogma? ¿ Can the mind learn instantly all the content of the unconscious in which there are deep, secret fears? ¿ Does analysis imply time and division? Is consciousness separate from its content? ¿ To get at the root of fear means learning about not being. ¿ Q: What about guilt? 3. If freedom is responsibility, how do I act? - 16 September 1972 Duration: 78 minutes ¿ Q: What is the action that will be a total response to the world around us? ¿ Can one respond totally without learning about love and death in relation to daily life? ¿ Do we live, or do we tolerate living? ¿ Do we live according to ideas and conclusions based on belief, dogma and memory? ¿ Is there an action which dissipates all images? ¿ Is love relationship in which there is no image? Is disorder relationship in which there is the image? ¿ Can a mind seeking comfort learn about death? ¿ Find out whether death is something to be avoided or to be lived with naturally. ¿ Can the mind free itself from the known? ¿ Q: What relationship has literature, beauty and art to our daily life? ¿ Q: Were you conditioned by the Masters? ¿ Q: Can one help someone in distress? 4. To come upon the new, thought must be quiet - 17 September 1972 Duration: 66 minutes ¿ If one is serious, one must learn for oneself if there is such a thing as the im measurable. ¿ Thought cannot find the immeasurable because thought is measurement and time. ¿ Can thought, realizing its limitations, be quiet? ¿ Can the mind without effort see its content clearly, and the limitation, lack of space and time-binding quality of its consciousness? ¿ When you say, 'I do not know,' does the content have importance? ¿ There are various systems of meditation, gadgets, yoga, to make the mind quiet. These are unimportant. ¿ Is truth the very perception of the false? ¿ When the mind has perceived the truth of something, what is time? ¿ Is there a different dimension which thought cannot touch? Public Discussion 5. You can learn only if you do not know - 12 September 1972 Duration: 90 minutes ¿ Q: Does learning require thinking, or only awareness? ¿ To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observe outwardly and also our inward reactions. ¿ Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the free flow of energy. ¿ You see that you have many opinions and conclusions. You don't know why you have them or how to be free of them. Start with not knowing. ¿ Knowledge is in the past whilst learning is vital, in the present. ¿ In learning, which is a constant movement, can opinion and conclusion ever be formed? ¿ Can thought be slowed down naturally? In learning about the function of thought, slowing down takes place without control or effort.
