September 28th ~ The conditioned mind, surely, is incapable of finding out what lies beyond time. That is, sirs, the mind as we know it is conditioned by the past. The past, moving through the present to the future, conditions the mind; and this conditioned mind, being in conflict, in trouble, being fearful, uncertain, seeks …
A religious mind is free of all authority. And it is extremely difficult to be free from authority–not only the authority imposed by another but also the authority of the experience that one has gathered, which is of the past, which is tradition. And the religious mind has no beliefs; it has no dogmas; it …
September 29th ~ One of the principal questions that one has to put to oneself is this: How far or to what depth can the mind penetrate into itself? That is the quality of seriousness because it implies awareness of the whole structure of one’s own psychological being, with its urges, its compulsions, its desire …
October 1st ~ All religions have maintained that time is necessary, the psychological time we are talking about. Heaven is very far away, and one can only come to it through the gradual process of evolution, through suppression, through growth, or through identification with an object, with something superior. Our question is whether it is …
Oct 2nd ~ When we are talking about time, we do not mean chronological time, time by the watch. That time exists, must exist. If you want to catch a bus, if you want to get to a train or meet an appointment tomorrow, you must have chronological time. But is there a tomorrow, psychologically, which …
October 3rd ~ Time is thought, and thought is the process of memory that creates time as yesterday, today, and tomorrow, as a thing that we use as a means of achievement, as a way of life. Time to us is extraordinarily important, life after life, one life leading to another life that is modified, …
October 4th ~ Time means moving from what is to “what should be.” I am afraid, but one day I shall be free of fear- at least, that is what we think. To change from what is to “what should be” involves time. Now, time implies effort in that interval between what is and ”what …
The work situation is a creation that has great psychological value. Through work, we are able to escape the effects of the dilemma (mental work that creates tension – some good, some bad) by projecting it into the work situation. In a well organized situation the dilemma is, as it were, caged, and workers are …