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SA61T7 - An attentive mind is without conflict, therefore free
Saanen, Switzerland - 8 August 1961
Public Talk 7
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Summary
Negative thinking implies no effort, whereas positive thinking does imply effort.
Effort means being in conflict, in which is involved achievement, suppression and denial.
Have we ever observed our self as it is, consciously or unconsciously, without trying to change, substitute, transform, suppress what we see?
A mind and a brain in conflict is never quiet.
What is in conflict all the time becomes dull.
The state of mind that says, ‘I do not know,’ and is waiting for an answer, is entirely different from a mind that says, ‘I do not know,’ and is not waiting for an answer.
Attention is not distraction, attention is not the process of concentration; attention is something entirely different.
To inquire profoundly requires silence.
That reality which is not measurable, which is unnameable, which has no word, comes into being only when the mind is completely free and silent, as it is in a state of creation.
Q: The state of total attention and desire without a motive, are they the same?