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.If you do not agree or disagree but look, you will see howyour nationalism, your racial prejudices, your religious dogmas, allthe stupidities are preventing co-operation with human beings.Youcan co-operate round an idea, and therefore again the sameproblems arise: you co-operate with certain ideas and I co-operatewith other ideas, and therefore there is a contradiction; you are acommunist, I am a capitalist, and therefore we battle; and in themeantime the poor chap is suffering.So, for most of us, the idea is much stronger than action,because action demands immediacy.Action is always in the livingpresent, act is an active verb.The idea need not be active.It isthere, therefore I do not want to act immediately.But actiondemands all the time change, breaking down, flowing, living,running - that demands energy, watching, clarity.Whereas, withideas you can play around everlastingly.Therefore the moreidealistic you are, the less active you are, and therefore the more isthe contradiction.Therefore, ideas, as most of us know, are ameans of escape from total action - we are afraid of total action.Ifyou are really listening, you really cease to be a nationalist, youforget your religion, your prejudices, that you are a Hindu, this andthat.Then you are a human being; then you come directly intocontact with another human being and in that direct contact there isaction.And that action may create more revolution, more trouble.Therefore we say, "No.Let us deal with ideas, theories, concepts,and we can play with them everlastingly."This is one of the majordifficulties.And also we live fragmentarily.We live at the intellectual levelat one time, at an emotional level at another time, at a purelyphysical level at another time.And most of us worship intellect,because knowledge is tremendously important.The more you haveread, the more you can quote, the more you can spout out a lot ofwords about the Gita, this and that, you are respected as anextraordinary human being.It does not matter what kind of a lifeyou lead, what goes on inside you; but as long as you can quote,indulge in intellectual ideas, concepts, you are regarded as a greatman - which is again a way of life which is fragmentary.Whereas,a man who lives totally, non-fragmentarily, is not intellectual,emotional, physical, but is all the time a total being.So, that is oneof the reasons why we indulge in ideas and why ideas become sodominating.Is it possible to act without an idea? I hope I am explainingmyself clearly.If not, perhaps you will ask questions another day;and we can go more fully in detail with regard to it.One sees thatthe idea predominates and then action follows; whereas it shouldbe the other way round.There should be only action, not idea; thenyou are actively living in the present.This demands watchfulness,non-fragmentary action and therefore non-contradiction.Wherethere is contradiction, there must be effort - which is obvious.So,our whole life goes round and round these three things - idea,action and contradiction: contradiction being conscious, deliberate,or unconscious, unthought, unknown.So, when we have to understand fear - which we are going into,perhaps not this evening but another evening - we can then go intoit, not as an idea which we have to get rid of, but as a fact whichwe have to understand and therefore not resist.What is action without idea? You ask yourself this question:what is action without concept, and is it at all possible? First, don'taccept it.Find out, if it is possible, what it means.Because our lifeis action.You are sleeping, walking, dreaming, going to the office,taking up the pen, signing this or that.The whole of life is action, itis a movement in relationship.And that movement in relationshipbecomes a contradiction when it is a movement born of idea andtherefore unrelated to action.When you discover how ideas areborn which I have tried to explain briefly and when you understandthis process of ideation, then you will see for yourself - nobody canteach you, you have to do it for yourself - you will not create anyidea when you look, when you listen; then you are in contactimmediately with everything, that immediacy of contact is realaction in which there is no contradiction, and therefore does notinvolve effort of any kind.It is effort that perverts, makes the mindold; contradiction makes the mind old.Most of us have a mind thatis already very old and dying; because though we may be veryyoung, we live in a state of contradiction, conscious orunconscious.So, to understand this whole problem of living is the firstprimary duty of every human being; and after understanding that,one can proceed further, because there are things which the mindcan never understand if it has not settled these simple problems.Tounderstand that, you need tremendous energy; and that energy canonly come when there is no contradiction, when one's whole being- physically, emotionally, intellectually - is completely one.Then,with that total energy, the mind can go very deeply and very far.But a mind that is in fragments, that is in contradiction, that is inpain - do what it will; it can go to the temples, to the gurus - such amind will never go beyond itself; and it must go beyond itself tosolve the immense problems that confront every human being.October 25, 1964NEW DELHI 3RD PUBLIC TALK 28THOCTOBER 1964As we said the other day, we are going to talk about fear.To gointo that question fully and completely, one must have a great dealof energy - energy to penetrate into the illusions that one hascreated round oneself and all the ideas an the innumerableproblems that one has built round oneself.Unless one understandsthese things rightly and deeply for oneself, one will never be ableto be free of fear consciously or unconsciously.We are going totake a journey together into this question - I mean together.Youand I together are going to penetrate into this whole question andtherefore you and I are going to share together.You are not justsitting there listening to the speaker, agreeing or disagreeing; butwe are together at the same level, at the same speed, with the sameintensity - together.You and I will have to be in communion withone another - and this needs a great deal of communion, not onlyverbally but also with our whole being, intellectually, sensitively,with all the capacity inside and the drive that is necessary to gointo this question [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]