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BA71T1 - What is fear and what is pleasure?
Bangalore, India - 30 January 1971
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

To understand fear and pleasure, one has to observe them in oneself, not theoretically but actually see them operating in yourself.

Freedom and the beauty of freedom comes when you understand actually ‘what is’, when you really understand your own confusion, callousness and brutality.

Where there is attachment there must be the uncertainty that the person to whom you are attached may turn to another or may die. So where there is attachment there must be fear.

What is the function of thought, knowing that fear and pleasure are two sides of the coin?

To observe without the observer.