All our life is based on thought which is measurable. It measures God, it measures its relationship with another through the image. It tries to improve itself according to what it thinks it should be. So unnecessarily we live in a world of measurement, and with that world we want to enter into a world in which there is no measurement at all. Meditation is the seeing of 'what is' and going beyond..

because it is constantly living in the past, the past which is the system. When you say 'I am a Christian', or 'I am a Hindu', It is the past which speaks and cannot see anything new.

any kind - physically, psychologically, intellectually - is a waste of energy.

that there is a possibility of creation; but i do not mean this superficial emptiness which most of us have. Most of us are superficially empty, and it shows itself through the desire for distraction. We want to be amused, so we turn to books, to the radio, we run to lectures, to authorities; the mind is everlastingly filling itself. I am not talking of that emptiness which is thoughtlessness. O..

of country, the love of God, the love of fellow man,all that means absolutely nothing, it is just ideas. .

of people, racial and so on, is the result of our educationand of the influence of the society which we have built.

slavery to an idea, or in acceptance of a certain theology, or in conformingto a certain pattern set by society or by myself.

Most of us thrive on self-pity, blaming others, and this occupation doesn`t bring clarity.

We realize that life is ugly, painful, sorrowful; we want some kind of theory, some kind of speculation or satisfaction, some kind of doctrine, which will explain all this, and so we are caught in explanation, in words, in theories, and gradually, beliefs become deeply rooted and unshakable because behind those beliefs, behind those dogmas, there is the constant fear of the unknown. But we never..