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BR69T4 - Meditation is the beginning of understanding oneself
Brockwood Park, UK - 14 September 1969
Public Talk 4
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Summary
Meditation and systems.
One can only observe when there is no image through which one is looking.
When I look at myself, is the observer different from the thing looked at?
We are living in the past, we are the past, and all our activities stem from the past, and so for most of us thought is enormously important.
It is part of meditation to find out when the act of thinking is absolutely necessary and when thought must be absolutely quiet.
You can meditate while active, but perhaps it may help sometimes to sit quietly by yourself, or when you walk alone, to observe yourself and your reactions.
I can only listen to you when the mind is completely quiet, not resisting, agreeing or disagreeing, but actually listening with my whole being.
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