The role of the teacher: Malibu 1971 - Dialogue 1

" The role of the teacher - 26 March 1971

• Q: There is much talk of a spiritual revolution among young people. Do you see in this very mixed phenomenon any hope of a new flowering for civilisation or possibility of growth?

• One can go into oneself at tremendous depths and find out everything. To go into oneself is the problem. Not being able to do it we ask for help.

• If there were no books, no gurus, what would you do?

• Q: You speak against effort, but doesn’t the growth and well-being of all sides

of man demand something like hard work of one sort or another?

• Why is there this cult of effort? Why have I to make effort to reach God,

enlightenment or truth?

• Why do we divide energy at all?

• The observer only comes into being when wanting to change ‘what is’.

• The state of not-knowing is intelligence."