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GS62DSG4 - Authority and imitation
Gstaad, Switzerland - 17 August 1962
Discussion with Small Group 4
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Summary
What is involved in accepting ‘spiritual’ authority? Why does one accept it?
Can you remain with the discontent, a fury inside you, and not with the object?
I reject authority, either outer or inner.
Why do we want a permanent relationship with anybody?
Thought gives continuity.
There is a continuity through recognition, through like and dislike.
When stripped of everything society has imposed, what have I left?
The fact is this thing called ‘me’ is empty.
How does one face a fact?
When you have denied everything, you come to a point where you really don’t know what you are.
What is the state of the mind that has completely wiped away everything that it knows?