Prasanna P wrote: I think, first I have to tune my own engine (not turn off!). Perhaps then only I can tell others to tune theirs.

I understand what you mean. I think my meaning was not clearly expressed: it was very imprecisely put. By helpless I meant not being able to communicate on any meaningful level. And who is going to do the tuning? Is there an engine there at all? To see the suchness of things is at the centre of what makes a person whole; in this 'non-state' there is nothing that can be said or need be said. Now how can one communicate this to a mind that is time-bound? That is where one is helpless. But it's not a problem, it's just a fact: one is unable to communicate this thing.

Prasanna P wrote: Wasn't K meaning it, when he said that psychological insecurity eventually causes physical insecurity ? There has been hyperactivity of human intelligence causing misuse and overuse of knowledge, due to an aberration in the state of human intelligence. It has caused a kind of involuntary intellectual cannibalism called competition, resulting in this state of the world

Hi Prasanna, You have said it so well; yes, hyperactivity is the right word for this abnormal world. It seems that there is a kind of malaria of the mind which keeps it in a state of perpetual fever. One feels so helpless in the face of it. It reminds me of a time some years ago when I was driving to my brother's town and suddenly my car started to speed ahead by itself, totally out of control. The throttle somehow got stuck fully open and I had no control over it. Fortunately the road ahead was without traffic and I turned the engine off and rolled onto a grass verge. That feeling of helplessness is like how I feel in the company of people who are, as you say, caught in this involuntary mind-web. But, unfortunately, I am powerless to turn off the engine that generates their fevered fantasies.