How is one to be aware?: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 5

How is one to be aware? - 30 July 1949

• Does the understanding of ourselves demand a specialization? • What is it that we need capacity for?

• How is one to be capable of meeting life as a whole?

• How are we aware of something?

• To understand relationship there must be an awareness which is not aggressively positive.

• Q: All religions have insisted on some kind of self-discipline to moderate the instincts of the brute in man. You seem to imply that such disciplines are a hindrance to the realization of God. Who is right in this matter?