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SA62T2 - An intensely awake mind does not need experience
Saanen, Switzerland - 24 July 1962
Public Talk 2
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Summary
Knowledge is essential to function but it also impedes clarity of perception.
Being uncertain, in despair, we pile up experience as knowledge.
Knowledge doesn’t dispel despair; experience doesn’t wipe away anxiety.
Is it possible to live without experience?
It is only the innocent mind, the fresh mind that has no despair.
Ignorance is a state of unawareness of the operations of one’s own mind, a lack of self-knowledge.
A mind that is awake does not need challenge and response. It is not demanding any experience; it is a light to itself.
There is a miracle in listening. That is the real miracle.
Only the innocent mind can be aware of the nameless, the immeasurable.
Questions from the audience followed the talk.