Four Small Group Discussions, Ojai, USA, 1972
1. Conflict and choice - 29 March 1972
Duration: 95 minutes
⢠What do we mean by learning?
⢠Why is one frightened of the past?
⢠Knowing and looking at oneself.
⢠Can that mess which is me be washed away?
⢠How are you aware of conflict?
⢠Choice and clarity.
⢠Looking without any distortion.
2. A life without measurement - 30 March 1972
Duration: 87 minutes
⢠Human beings have tried everything to be harmonious.
⢠Can we live without concept, ideology and myth?
⢠Comparison and fear.
⢠Can you look at the fact without measurement?
⢠I see in relationship what I am.
⢠Any form of psychological measurement is the beginning of conflict.
⢠When you see the false, what takes place?
3. Direct perception - 31 March 1972
Duration: 92 minutes
⢠One has to be a light to oneself
⢠Mantra yoga.
⢠Physical sensitivity.
⢠In analysis there is division.
⢠The world accepts conflict as a way of life.
⢠The intelligence that comes out of direct perception.
⢠What does it mean to see directly?
⢠The danger of the image.
⢠Does seeing take time?
⢠Is a challenge needed in order to see?
4. Can thought bring about a change in our daily life? - 1 April 1972
Duration: 100 minutes
⢠Can thought bring about a change in our daily life?
⢠Q: Is this an authentic inquiry or is the conclusion already there?
⢠What is the function of thought?
⢠To see something totally thought must be quiet.
⢠Order and sleep.
⢠Thought and security.
⢠Q: Isn't your teaching a system?
⢠Is there a depth that is measureless, from the beginning, not at the end?