Tag:  Evolution

• It would be foolish - would it not? - to deny evolution. October 29, 2009

  Questioner: Do you believe in evolution? You have often said that understanding is immediate, the act of learning is on the moment; where does evolution play a part in this? Are you denying evoluti...

• Why have we created psychological time? October 31, 2009

  Perhaps man has developed this idea of evolution through watching a little bush grow into an enormous tree, the baby into manhood, the developing of a muscle, that muscle is weak but practice and e...

• From the beginning we must be very clear that you are not being told what to do, or what to think. November 03, 2009

  From the beginning we must be very clear that you are not being told what to do, or what to think. We have been programmed enough. But in this talk, and tomorrow's talk, we should think together, l...

• Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life. November 29, 2009

  Meditation is seeing the constant touching the ever-changing movement of life. The man who has progressed through being a sinner to being a saint has progressed from one illusion to another. This ...

• The religious mind does not depend on time for its development. February 18, 2010

  You may be treating the talks we have been having as an exchange of ideas, as a process of accepting new ideas and discarding old ones, or as a process of denying new ideas and holding on to the ol...

• By adding little by little to the granary in the mind, you hope to become full, and to be able to meet life fully, wholly. August 09, 2010

  I think that in that very process of accumulation, which we call learning, lies our misfortune. When it is burdened with knowledge, with learning, mind is crippled - not that we must not read. But ...

• As long as there is not a radical, fundamental change, merely dealing with symptoms is not going to do anything. May 17, 2011

  What I call patchwork is this continual alteration in the existing system of thought, but keeping the foundation as it is intact. That is patchwork, isn't it? To keep things fundamentally as they a...

• To me, real reform, real change, real radical change of thought, lies not in the patchwork of reforming religions but in seeing the absurdity of religions. May 19, 2011

  To deal with the symptoms is to consider that you can stick to your particular religion and I can stick to mine, and let us be tolerant. Now, as I explained the other night, to me, the whole proces...