1. Attention implies the total abandonment of the 'me' - 6 March 1971 Duration: 100 minutes
? Can the mind undergo a radical revolution?
? How do you observe the world?
? What solves our human problem is observing the whole process of ourselves
without judging, condemning, translating or rejecting - just to observe.
Question topics following the talk include being disturbed in order to know, being confused, transcendental meditation.
2. Violence, pleasure and fear - 7 March 1971 Duration: 89 minutes
? We have accepted violence as a way of life and yet at the same time we want
peace.
? Can one live a life in which there is no comparison at all?
? Pleasure is the continuance of an experience that is never finished.
? We are living in the past.
? How can the conscious mind investigate the total hidden mind?
3. Is pleasure love? - 13 March 1971
Duration: 96 minutes
? Can thought ever solve the whole problem of existence?
? What is the function of thought?
? Why has sex become so extraordinarily important?
? Chastity is the freedom from all image.
? Is love desire?
? A new thing can take place only when there is an ending of the old.
Question topics following the talk include: getting better, controlling thought, the process of invention, vegetarianism, images.
4. Meditation means a life that is totally different every minute of the day - 14 March 1971
Duration: 94 minutes
? A mind that inquires into this whole question of meditation must have
tremendous discipline.
? When you observe'what is'without the interference of the past, there is
complete change of 'what is'.
? Is there away of seeing the whole content of consciousness without analysis?
? When you give complete attention there is no centre from which you attend.
? The word'innocence'means a mind that is never hurt, scarred.
? Meditation is the sense of complete silence and quietness of the mind.
Question topics following the talk include gurus, meditation, effort, escaping from 'what is'.