Knowledge and Learning are two Different things

Three Public Talks1. A radical transformation in the psyche itself - 8 November 1968Duration: 80 minutes To communicate we must know that the word is not the thing and also be inthat state of mind whose quality is attention, care. That can only take place ifwe are serious. We are the world and the world is us. To bring about a radical transformation,which is so essential in society, there must be radical transformation inourselves. Analysis of violence does not end violence, nor is violence ended by thinking ofnon-violence. There is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to changeand therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. Knowledge and learning are two different things. Q: What is this silence you talk about? The silence that I am experiencing comesand goes. 2. Thought is the cause of fear - 10 November 1968Duration: 76 minutes Though we have plenty of energy, apparently we lack the drive, enthusiasm,vitality to bring about a change in ourselves. As long as there is fear there must be violence, aggression, anger, hatred. Thought is the source of fear. Is it possible to live everyday life without thought interfering? Thought is always old. When you worship thought you are worshipping something that is dead. Q: Could you discuss the process of verbalisation that goes on when oneobserves? Q: How do we get rid of this separation, division in ourselves?3. The benediction of meditation - 17 November 1968Duration: 67 minutes We shall explore together into this life, existence, in which is includedrelationship, love and death, not merely as a phenomenon but as somethingtremendously significant, to be cherished, deeply lived. Meditation is theapproach to this problem of living. It is only a free mind that is capable of attention in which there is no achievingor losing or fear. It is only a quiet, attentive mind that can understand thisimmense problem of living. It is only the quiet, meditative mind that can comeupon what is called love. What is living? The observer cannot possibly do anything about envy because he is the causeand the effect. Whatever he does with regard to envy is still envy. What does it mean to die, knowing the organism comes to an end? What does itmean to die psychologically, inwardly?Five Public Discussions4. Freedom of choice is not freedom - 11 November 1968Duration: 83 minutes What do we mean by free will? Is there such thing? Is choice ever necessary? Freedom exists only when I perceive very clearly, when the mind sees things asthey are. Q: Is it possible to be free in society? Q: Is love the absence of hate? To find out what truth is you must be free of propaganda: the propaganda ofthe Church, the propaganda of literature, propaganda of tradition, so that yousee things clearly for yourself. 5. Learning is action - 12 November 1968Duration: 56 minutes Our education is concerned with the accumulation of knowledge. Very few of usare capable of living a life without the influence of specialists. What is the point of going to a university, getting a degree and disappearinginto the vast structure of society? Q: How shall we approach the idea of study? If you express from something already accumulated it is a deadly bore, but ifyou are all the time watching, not only yourself but the world, you are learning. Q: You say that a mantra is an escape. Do you think that people use drugs as anescape or because they want to become closer? When I observe myself I cannot learn if I condemn what I find. We observe through our imagination, through our image, through ourknowledge. 6. Is it possible to end the thousand yesterdays? - 13 November 1968Duration: 88 minutes Living together amicably, creatively, in complete relationship with one another- if that is what is essential then we need not only a different kind of mind butalso a different quality of affection, love. What is the function of a religious mind? Our struggle in life is dualistic: good and bad, right and wrong, holy and unholy,the ideal and the fact. There is only the fact, not the ideal. Is it possible to look at life as though you are looking for the first time? What is the content of the unconscious? It is the racial residue, the traditional,the family, the personal. It is as trivial as the conscious mind. Q: It seems to me that the 'I', the ego only exists in relation to other things. Could you comment on this? The impossible becomes possible only when you discard the impossibility of it. To find out anything you must go beyond the impossible. Q: What do you mean by meditation? There is no 'how'. 7. Can the mind be free of thought? - 14 November 1968Duration: 80 minutes What is a human being to do living in this world which is extraordinarilyconfused, contradictory, fragmentary? Life is relationship in action. There is a division, a dualistic process between 'what is' and 'what should be'. Inthis division there must be conflict. ...