Can There Be Complete Freedom Of Thought: Six Public Meetings Brockwood Park Uk 1972

Public Talks

1. Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972

Duration: 76 minutes

• Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning?

• To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into

freedom take time?

• Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us?

• Is thought always conditioned? Is freedom the non-existence of thought?

• My very being is related to thought. If you want to see something new, what do

you do?

• To have insight, let go of the old and listen.

• Learning is not memorizing.

• Q: Is feeling another way of thinking?

• Q: Isn’t the need to love and be loved essential?

• Needing love is love of self

2. If I don’t change now what will the future be? - 10 September 1972

Duration: 86 minutes

• Is thought responsible for fragmentation?

• Does fragmentation have its own activity?

• What is the energy that perceives the total and doesn’t live in fragmentation?

• Does comparison bring about fear and pleasure?

• Is thought seeking security in belief and dogma?

• Can the mind learn instantly all the content of the unconscious in which there

are deep, secret fears?

• Does analysis imply time and division? Is consciousness separate from its

content?

• To get at the root of fear means learning about not being.

• Q: What about guilt?

3. If freedom is responsibility, how do I act? - 16 September 1972

Duration: 78 minutes

• Q: What is the action that will be a total response to the world around us?

• Can one respond totally without learning about love and death in relation to

daily life?

• Do we live, or do we tolerate living?

• Do we live according to ideas and conclusions based on belief, dogma and

memory?

• Is there an action which dissipates all images?

• Is love relationship in which there is no image? Is disorder relationship in which

there is the image?

• Can a mind seeking comfort learn about death?

• Find out whether death is something to be avoided or to be lived with naturally.

• Can the mind free itself from the known?

• Q: What relationship has literature, beauty and art to our daily life?

• Q: Were you conditioned by the Masters?

• Q: Can one help someone in distress?

4. To come upon the new, thought must be quiet - 17 September 1972

Duration: 66 minutes

• If one is serious, one must learn for oneself if there is such a thing as the im

measurable.

• Thought cannot find the immeasurable because thought is measurement and

time.

• Can thought, realizing its limitations, be quiet?

• Can the mind without effort see its content clearly, and the limitation, lack of

space and time-binding quality of its consciousness?

• When you say, ‘I do not know,’ does the content have importance?

• There are various systems of meditation, gadgets, yoga, to make the mind

quiet. These are unimportant.

• Is truth the very perception of the false?

• When the mind has perceived the truth of something, what is time?

• Is there a different dimension which thought cannot touch?

Public Discussion

5. You can learn only if you do not know - 12 September 1972

Duration: 90 minutes

• Q: Does learning require thinking, or only awareness?

• To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observe

outwardly and also our inward reactions.

• Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents the

free flow of energy.

• You see that you have many opinions and conclusions. You don’t know why

you have them or how to be free of them. Start with not knowing.

• Knowledge is in the past whilst learning is vital, in the present.

• In learning, which is a constant movement, can opinion and conclusion ever be

formed?

• Can thought be slowed down naturally? In learning about the function of

thought, slowing down takes place without control or effort.

• Can the mind empty itself without effort?

• Q: Do LSD and other drugs slow down the mind?

6. The action of intelligence - 14 September 1972

Duration: 97 minutes

• Q: Why don’t we see the division between the observer and the observed?

• How does the division come about which causes conflict and misery?

• Are we aware that we are fragmented? Why does contradiction exist?

• Can we have a mind that is not fragmented and contradictory?

• Can the mind live without comparison?

• The brain sees that nationalities and religious divisions are disastrous for

human relationship. What is the capacity that makes the brain see this? Is this

awareness? Is this intelligence?

• What is the relationship of intelligence to all that is taking place?

• Intelligence operating has its own action. When there is that intelligence, there

is sanity.

• Is intelligence operating in you?