Can the mind observe without comparison?: Eight Small Group Discussions, Malibu, USA, 1970

1. Living with a sustained seriousness - 21February 1970

Duration: 91 minutes

• What does it mean to be serious?

• Becoming

• Why do I compare myself with you or with somebody else?

• Do I look at people through images?

2. Can the brain operate without recourse to the past?- 22February 1970

Duration: 92 minutes

• Is there self-progress?

• Conflict

• Security

• Any form of division within oneself is a source of conflict.

• Can the brain be quiet?

3. What makes one control? - 14March 1970

Duration: 97 minutes

• Violence

• Why do you control?

• Security means to be in a state in which there is no choice at all.

• The mind has become sensitive because it has observed, not because it has

experienced.

• Either you see the fact with the past or you see the fact as it is now.

• The word is of the past.

4. Being serious without belief - 15March 1970

Duration: 77 minutes

• Can the intellect, a fragment, ever be serious? Serious in the sense of a

sustained observation without any distortion.

• Control

• What is living?

• How does it happen that one can be completely harmonious?

• What does awareness mean?

5. Attention leads to learning - 21March 1970

Duration: 93 minutes

• Inattention and attention.

• Observing without the word.

• What is the function of sleep?

• Is love a matter of culture, a thing of pleasure and therefore dependency?

6. Fear in consciousness - 22March 1970

Duration: 89 minutes

• How does it happen that the deep layers hidden in consciousness can be

exposed?

• Comparison between what is with what has been and what will be, is the

process of fear.

• Can the mind observe without comparison?

7. What is order?- 28March 1970

Duration: 81 minutes

• Order and disorder.

• Why does the mind accumulate?

• How do you receive something that is not of the mind?

8. How is one to be entirely free of fear?- 29March 1970

Duration: 90 minutes

• Fear

• All the escaping and the strengthening of fear comes because we are

inattentive.

• What is sleep?