Can There Be Complete Freedom Of Thought

Public Talks1. Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972Duration: 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 intofreedom 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 doyou 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 self2. If I don't change now what will the future be? - 10 September 1972Duration: 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 thereare deep, secret fears? Does analysis imply time and division? Is consciousness separate from itscontent? 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 1972Duration: 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 todaily life? Do we live, or do we tolerate living? Do we live according to ideas and conclusions based on belief, dogma andmemory? Is there an action which dissipates all images? Is love relationship in which there is no image? Is disorder relationship in whichthere 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 1972Duration: 66 minutes If one is serious, one must learn for oneself if there is such a thing as the immeasurable. Thought cannot find the immeasurable because thought is measurement andtime. Can thought, realizing its limitations, be quiet? Can the mind without effort see its content clearly, and the limitation, lack ofspace 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 mindquiet. 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 Discussion5. You can learn only if you do not know - 12 September 1972Duration: 90 minutes Q: Does learning require thinking, or only awareness? To be aware is to be conscious, to be in relationship with what you observeoutwardly and also our inward reactions. Awareness reveals that I have a conclusion from which I act, which prevents thefree flow of energy. You see that you have many opinions and conclusions. You don't know whyyou 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 beformed? Can thought be slowed down naturally? In learning about the function ofthought, 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 1972Duration: 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 forhuman relationship. What is the capacity that makes the brain see this? Is thisawareness? 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, thereis sanity. Is intelligence operating in you?