Ojai 1973 - Public Meetings: In meditation, life is a total movement

1.Relationship without image is love

Relationship means action and movement.

Without understanding the totality of human relationship we live in conflict, however intimate we may be.

When there is knowledge as image in relationship there is conflict.

2.The meaning of life pleasure and fear

"Is life a mere struggle within and without; laborious, painful, anxious, and then death?

What place has thought and what is the structure of thinking?

Pleasure is the continuance of an incident which is dead, past. Thought pursues that incident which becomes pleasure.

3.Order love and death

In our life there is very little order.

Most of us conform, which is the very essence of disorder.

We conform because we want to succeed inwardly or outwardly; success to us is the most important thing in life.

Order and virtue come with the understanding of disorder.

4.Religion and meditation

What part does religion play in one’s life?

How do you know that you or anyone has attained enlightenment or reached the highest form of religious thought?

How can a mind which is always in conflict within itself find that which has never been in conflict?

In inquiring into meditation, do not follow anybody.

Meditation is a daily life in which there is no control whatsoever.

When dealing with psychological facts, is the observer different from the thing observed?

A certain part of the brain can function efficiently only when it has total order, security.

The moment you are aware you are silent it is not silence.

Silence is the highest order.

In silence, parts of the brain which have not been occupied become totally active.

Questions from the audience followed the talk.