Is it possible to renew the mind?: Amsterdam 1967 - Public Talk 3

Is it possible to renew the mind? - 24 May 1967

• When the mind is living through imagination and thought, it is incapable of

living in the complete fullness of the present.

• Thought has created time, not chronological time but psychological time. That

is, ‘I will be,’ ‘I should be.’

• Is it possible for the brain to be quiet, to give an interval between the old and

the new? This interval is the timeless nature in which thought cannot possibly

enter.

• That which has continuity is repetitive, which is time. It’s only when time

comes to an end there is something new taking place.

• To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any

problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

• Since love is not desire or pleasure, how does one come upon it?

• Q: Is the feeling of responsibility a part of the order and discipline you were

talking about?

• Q: Why don’t people get angry with what you are saying?