If The Mind Could Cease Measuring Itself

Wherever There Is A Suitable Environment For The Fulfilment Of Life, It Will Fulfil Itself.

I Think One Has To Understand, Not As A Theory, Not As A Speculative, Entertaining Concept, But Rather As An Actual Fact - That We Are The World And The World Is Us. The World Is Each One Of Us; To Feel That, To Be Really Committed To It And To Nothing Else, Brings About A Feeling Of Great Responsibility And An Action That Must Not Be Fragmentary, But Whole.

It Is Only When The Mind Is Free From The Old That It Meets Everything Anew, And In That There Is Joy.

Meditation Is The Emptying Of The Mind Of All The Things That The Mind Has Put Together. If You Do That -perhaps You Won't, But It Doesn't Matter, Just Listen To This- You Will Find That There Is An Extraordinary Space In The Mind, And That Space Is Freedom. So You Must Demand Freedom At The Very Beginning, And Not Just Wait, Hoping To Have It At The End. You Must Seek Out The Significance Of Freedom In Your Work, In Your Relationships, In Everything That You Do. Then You Will Find That Meditation Is Creation.

To Be Free Of All Authority, Of Your Own And That Of Another, Is To Die To Everything Of Yesterday, So That Your Mind Is Always Fresh, Always Young, Innocent, Full Of Vigour And Passion. It Is Only In That State That One Learns And Observes. And For This, A Great Deal Of Awareness Is Required, Actual Awareness Of What Is Going On Inside Yourself, Without Correcting It Or Telling It What It Should Or Should Not Be, Because The Moment You Correct It You Have Established Another Authority, A Censor.