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SA61T5 - Self-knowing is the beginning of meditation
Saanen, Switzerland - 3 August 1961
Public Talk 5
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Summary
A mind that is crippled with authority can never be free to find out.
To be aware of every movement of thought, the implication of every word, the significance of every desire, and not to deny or accept but to watch choicelessly, frees the mind from authority.
Meditation is not a process of disciplining, controlling or shaping the mind by desire or by knowledge.
The mind has to be aware of its own thoughts, the motives from where thoughts have arisen, the cause of them.
A mind that is ambitious is always seeking, wanting to be successful, comparing, fulfilling.
In self-knowing one begins to lay the foundation of true virtue, which is not recognisable by society or by another.
Q: I don’t quite understand that freedom is at the beginning and not at the end, because at the beginning all action is conditioned, therefore how can one be free at the beginning?