Public Talks
1. Can I see wholly? - 16 July 1972
Duration: 71 minutes
• Do we act casually, expecting division to end as a result of outer environment?
• Does change demand immediate attention and action?
• Freeing of the mind from conditioning and in that freedom bringing about a
cooperative action.
• Can one who is conditioned by the past change totally?
• Will change come through analysis or is there a totally different approach?
• Is time needed to have relationship in which there is love and not division?
• Does one of the many fragments of the 'me' assume authority or is the mind
free to look?
• Observation not investigation.
• Is there analysis if there are no parts? Is analysis a waste of time?
Questions from the audience followed the talk.
2. What is it to be creative? - 18 July 1972
Duration: 76 minutes
• Not being deeply creative we escape from the fact of deep frustration.
• Is there insight only when the mind is free of belief?
• Insight without conclusion is creative action.
• Why does thought draw conclusions from insight and cling to the structure of
control?
• I am isolated when I resist. Is aloneness insight into isolation?
• Moving in insight, relationship changes.
• Freedom from images is responsibility and love.
• The brain needs security to function. There is security in insight, which brings
intelligence.
• When you don't compare, what are you?
Questions from the audience followed the talk
3. Thought and its limitations - 20 July 1972
Duration: 85 minutes
• Can thought investigate something which is not of time, experience and
knowledge?
• What is the mind that can enter into the dimension which has no word?
• Can there be a harmony in which division does not exist between the known
and freedom from the known?
• Is the mind such a slave to words that it cannot see the movement of thought
without the word?
• Will knowledge bring about a better world when used with the 'me'?
• When the body dies what happens to thought?
• If I am aware that I am neurotic, in that awareness am I neurotic?
Questions from the audience followed the talk
4. Can the mind be totally unconditioned? - 23 July 1972
Duration: 84 minutes
• Society, culture and economic divisions have created images in us.
• Can the deep hurts of the mind be wiped away so that no mark is left? Will this
be done through analysis? Who is analysing?
• Is hurt a problem if you do not move away from it?
• Does conflict destroy the brain?
• Is comparison an escape from 'what is'?
• Am I the word, the description, the thought? If I don't compare, what am I?
• Wanting to cross to the other side of the river becomes a problem.
Questions from the audience followed the talk
5. Will the discovery of the cause of suffering end it? - 25 July 1972
Duration: 83 minutes
• Is sorrow ignorance of oneself?
• How does one go beyond loneliness?
• Can thought as measurement put an end to itself?
• When belief is threatened there is fear.
• Can the brain have security in which every form of fear has come to an end?
• Can the mind realize there is no security in the things that thought projects?
• The perception of truth is security.
• Can the mind invite joy?
• Can one help another in crisis?
Questions from the audience followed the talk
6. Pleasure, joy and death - 27 July 1972
Duration: 92 minutes
• Does the mind have any existence apart from the thing to which it is attached?
• Why does the mind act from a series of conclusions of thought?
• How can I love you if I am attached to you?
• What is the actual activity of the structure of memory which is the past?
• Can the mind have an insight into conditioning and therefore tremendous
energy to change it?
• How do I communicate love without the word?
• Is there anything permanent beyond death?
Questions from the audience followed the talk
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