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Tag: Effort
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Your mind is conditioned right through; there is no part of you which is unconditioned. December 13, 2009
Your mind is conditioned right through; there is no part of you which is unconditioned. That is a fact, whether you like it or not. You may say there is a part of you - the watcher, the super-soul,...
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Any action born of noise produces more noise, more confusion. December 19, 2009
You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something...
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Man has invented heaven out of hope, for his life has become a hell, an endless conflict from birth to death, coming and going, making money, working endlessly. December 24, 2009
One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, without a beat of the wing, just for the fun of flying, just to be sustained by the air-currents. Then ...
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We are saying: Be dead to love; it doesn't matter. Live entirely in your intellect and in your verbal manipulations, your cunning arguments. January 28, 2010
Questioner: Of course we can go on endlessly analysing, describing the cause, but will that bridge the gap between the mind and the heart? That's what I want to know. I have read some of the psycho...
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An ambitious man, whether he be a merchant, a politician, or a so-called saint is essentially a self-contradictory human being. February 24, 2010
The experiences, the influences, the traditions by which we are bound may be conscious or unconscious. Most of us are probably unaware of all these things that bind us. Being in a state of contradi...
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We said meditation is a state of mind in which all the things that thought has invented - the illusions, the beliefs, the dogmas, the rituals, the habits, the sexual demands - all that is no longer...
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To be fully aware of the present is an extraordinarily difficult task because the mind is incapable of facing a fact directly without deception. Thought is the product of the past and therefore it ...
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Is there an action which is not the result of effort, which is not the action of will? June 10, 2010
From what source, from what center must action arise if it is not to be contradictory and confusing? The social reformer does not ask this question because he wants to act, to reform - and in the v...
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Why has all of life, the way we live, become a constant struggle, conflict and effort? July 24, 2010
Can you observe without effort? Now, can you observe with effort? (audience - no...) Don't yell sir, find out, can you observe anything with effort? If I want to see you, must I make an effort to s...
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Now, this is your problem, it is not my problem; and your problem is this, is it not? - you say, "Certain people - two, or several, or hundreds - have made efforts, have struggled, have sought trut...
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It is easy to perceive what is, but to be free of it is another matter; August 30, 2010
To imagine is one thing, and to perceive what is is another, but both are binding. It is easy to perceive what is, but to be free of it is another matter; for perception is clouded with judgment, w...
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Our whole effort is concerned with this superimposition of what we call right ideas on what we consider wrong ideas, and by this attempt we continually create a division in action. We do not free t...
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How is one to have this intelligence which destroys struggle and conflict and the ceaseless effort which wears out mind itself? October 06, 2011
How is one to have this intelligence which destroys struggle and conflict and the ceaseless effort which wears out mind itself? You know, when you make an effort, you are as a piece of wood that is...
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