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MA73T1 - A different quality of mind not bound by thought
Madras (Chennai), India - 18 December 1973
Public Talk 1
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Summary
To survive sanely, rationally, healthily, survive as a whole entity, we need a different energy.
A different energy can only be brought about by a religious mind.
A religious mind is not a negligent mind; in the very negation is energy.
What is the responsibility of thought with regard to the structure in which it lives?
We must find a different quality of mind that is not bound by thought.
To see the present with all its immensity, there must be freedom from the known, from tradition, from knowledge.
To look we need energy, and we dissipate energy when we look through the eyes of the past.
Can you observe your violence without withdrawing from the fact to a conclusion and looking with a conclusion?
To be so free you need total attention, which is religion.
A religious man is free from violence; he has no concepts of non-violence.
A religious man is concerned with ‘what is’, not with ‘what should be’.
Questions from the audience followed the talk.