Can One Live a life in which there is no Comparison at all: Four Public Talks Santa Monica USA 1971

1. Attention implies the total abandonment of the ‘me’ - 6 March 1971 Duration: 100 minutes • Can the mind undergo a radical revolution? • How do you observe the world? • What solves our human problem is observing the whole process of ourselves without judging, condemning, translating or rejecting – just to observe. Question topics following the talk include: being disturbed in order to know, being confused, transcendental meditation

2. Violence, pleasure and fear - 7 March 1971 Duration: 89 minutes • We have accepted violence as a way of life and yet at the same time we want peace. • Can one live a life in which there is no comparison at all? • Pleasure is the continuance of an experience that is never finished. • We are living in the past. • How can the conscious mind investigate the total hidden mind?

3. Is pleasure love? - 13 March 1971 Duration: 96 minutes • Can thought ever solve the whole problem of existence? • What is the function of thought? • Why has sex become so extraordinarily important? • Chastity is the freedom from all image. • Is love desire? • A new thing can take place only when there is an ending of the old. Question topics following the talk include: getting better, controlling thought, the process of invention, vegetarianism, images.

4. Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day - 14 March 1971 Duration: 94 minutes • A mind that inquires into this whole question of meditation must have tremendous discipline. • When you observe ‘what is’ without the interference of the past, there is complete change of ‘what is’. • Is there a way of seeing the whole content of consciousness without analysis? • When you give complete attention there is no centre from which you attend. • The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is never hurt, scarred. • Meditation is the sense of complete silence and quietness of the mind. Question topics following the talk include: gurus, meditation, effort, escaping from ‘what is’

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Audiobook: 30 November 2015