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OJ78T1 - When there is no pressure there is freedom
Ojai, California - 1 April 1978
Public Talk 1

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Language acts as a great pressure and distorts communication and clarity of thinking.

Any pressure, whether economic, social, moral, idealistic, or of authority, is a distorting factor.

Our moral, ethical, religious, political and economic structure is based on the principle of pressure.

We are living either in past yesterdays or in future yesterdays. The future is yesterday passing through the present, modified and going on; it is still yesterday.

Can you be free of ideals and the pressure of conflict that comes about between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’?

Any form of institution is a distorting factor in life. When the brain has accepted the institution as a means of safety, security, status, a position, then it functions mechanically.

To look at ‘what is’ without any distortion means without any pressure. Then you begin to have an insight into something which is not the action of remembrance, but an insight which is totally divorced from thought, from memory, from experience.