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SA65D5 - Understanding meditation
Saanen, Switzerland - 8 August 1965
Public Discussion 5
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Meditation as a means to something becomes a drug, a habit and so destroys the subtlety, sensitivity, quality of a free mind.
Condemnation, justification and rationalisation are forms of escape from the fact.
There is sensitivity only when there is freedom, not from something but freedom per se.
Control of thought implies resistance to every other form of thought.
To understand the nature of freedom one must understand the nature of emptiness and space. That is meditation.
When energy is not dissipated and comes together without any movement there is action.
A mind that is not in a state of creation is a dead mind.
To understand meditation, one must begin right from the beginning and the beginning is self-knowledge.
Self-knowing is the beginning of wisdom.
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of a new life.
‘What is’ is completely transformed when there is no distance created by the censor.