SAANEN 1ST PUBLIC TALK 25TH JULY 1961 I think we should be very clear from the beginning why we have come here. For me these meetings are very serious, and I am using that word with a special significance. Seriousness, for most of us, implies adopting a certain line of thought, a particular way of … Weiterlesen
SAANEN 2ND PUBLIC TALK 27TH JULY 1961 I think it is very important, especially. during these discussions, to find out how to listen. Very few of us listen: we merely hear. We hear superficially, as we hear that noise outside in the street, and that hearing enters the brain very little. What we only superficially … Weiterlesen
SAANEN 3RD PUBLIC TALK 30TH JULY 1961 As I said at the beginning of these discussions I think it is very important to be serious. We are not talking here about ideas; and unfortunately most of us seem to be in communion with ideas and not with `what is‘. It seems to me very important … Weiterlesen
SAANEN 4TH PUBLIC TALK 1ST AUGUST 1961 We were saying the last time we met that seriousness is that urge, that intention to go to the very end of things and discover the essence; and if there is not that compulsive energy which drives one to discover what is true, then I am afraid these … Weiterlesen
SAANEN 5TH PUBLIC TALK 3RD AUGUST 1961 I would like to talk over with you this morning a rather complex subject; but before I begin to do that, I think, as I have said previously, that a certain amount of seriousness is necessary. Not the seriousness of a long face, or of eccentricity, but that … Weiterlesen
SAANEN 6TH PUBLIC TALK 6TH AUGUST 1961 We have been talking a great deal about facing the fact, observing the fact without condemnation or justification, approaching it without any opinion. Especially where psychological facts are concerned, we are apt to bring in our prejudices, our desires, our urges which distort `what is‘ and give rise … Weiterlesen
SAANEN 7TH PUBLIC TALK 8TH AUGUST 1961 If we may, we shall continue what we were talking about the day before yesterday, which was the whole content of what is meditation. In the East meditation is a very important daily event to those people who have gone into the matter very deeply; and perhaps it … Weiterlesen
SAANEN 8TH PUBLIC TALK 10TH AUGUST 1961 We were talking yesterday about the way of meditation and how, if there is freedom, the mind can go very deeply within itself. And I would like this morning, if I may, to consider several things. First fear, and then time and death. I think they are interrelated, … Weiterlesen
SAANEN 9TH PUBLIC TALK 13TH AUGUST 1961 This is the last talk of this gathering. During these talks we have covered a great many subjects, and I think we should consider this morning what is a religious mind. I would like to go into it fairly deeply because I feel only such a mind can … Weiterlesen