Tag:  Self Knowledge

• Demand is born out of duality. 'I am un- happy and I must be happy.' September 04, 2009

  To be free of demand and satisfaction necessitates investigation into oneself; it necessitates understanding the whole nature of demand. Demand is born out of duality. 'I am un- happy and I must b...

• We are going to find out together what is true, and that requires an open mind, an intelligent mind, an enquiring mind, an alert mind; September 25, 2009

  ...in answering these questions, I would like to say that I am not persuading you to think along my particular line. We are trying to find the right answer together. I am not answering for you jus...

• Self-knowledge is not a conclusion, an end; it has no beginning and no end. November 23, 2009

  Questioner: I have been told that you do not read any philosophical or religious literature. I can hardly credit this, as when I listen to you I realize that you must have read, or have, some secre...

• To go beyond the self-enclosing activities of the mind, you must understand them; December 01, 2009

  That is why it is important, as I said, to understand the process, the ways of our own thinking. Self-knowledge cannot be gathered through anybody, through any book, through any confession, psychol...

• Until I, in my relationship to you, understand myself, I am the cause of chaos, misery, destruction, fear, brutality. December 06, 2009

  Is it not, therefore, an obvious fact that what I am in my relationship to another creates society and that, without radically transforming myself, there can be no transformation of the essential f...

• Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. December 18, 2009

  So, a man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. Again, this is not a matter of time. There is no end to self-knowledge...

• Man is a total process. The totality must be understood and not merely a part, however temporarily important this part may be. January 02, 2010

  We may study history and translate historical fact according to our prejudices; but to be certain of the future is to be in illusion. Man is not the result of one influence only, he is vastly compl...

• If you find the garden that you have so carefully cultivated has produced only poisonous weeds, you have to tear them out by the roots; January 03, 2010

  If you find the garden that you have so carefully cultivated has produced only poisonous weeds, you have to tear them out by the roots; you have to pull down the walls that have sheltered them. You...

• Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom. March 03, 2010

  Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom. Self-knowledge is cultivated through the individual's search of himself. I am not putting the individual in opposition to the mass. They are not antitheti...

• To be fully aware of the present is an extraordinarily difficult task because the mind is incapable of facing a fact directly without deception. March 26, 2010

  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 ...

• Is it possible for the mind to be so attentive all the time, so sensitive that every challenge is answered completely and immediately, and to come to a state when there is no challenge and no response, when it is no longer in a state of experiencing? April 17, 2010

  If I may go further into it, the question really is: "Is it possible for the mind to be so attentive all the time, so sensitive that every challenge is answered completely and immediately, and to c...