Ojai 1949 Fourteen Public Talks - Volume 12: Why do we seek a method or technique?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 11

"Why do we seek a method or technique? - 21 August 1949

• The problems of life do not demand a method, because they are so vital and alive that if we approach with a method we totally misunderstand and don’t adequately meet that problem.

• Where there is efficiency there is ruthlessness.

• The means and the end are not separate.

• Reality or God is something that cannot come by a technique, a means, or

through a long, determined practice and discipline.

• Aloneness implies no means. You are not alone when you have a means.

• Q: What is the right relationship, if any, between the individual and the

collective, the mass?

• Q: What is the significance of pain and suffering?"