Then the problem
arises: how am I
to stop chattering? You understand? Listen to that
very carefully. You realise
your mind is chattering, then you say,
'How am I to stop it?' The moment you have
put the question, you are already entered
into the time element. I wonder
if you see that. Yes? So the 'how'
means time, and because you
ask the 'how' the other fellow
invents the system, invents the method,
the practice, put on the yellow robe,
blue robe, or whatever it is. So, see the mind
chattering, and you are not different
from that chattering. Your mind is chattering, and your mind is you. So when you have
that principle, that actual truth that you and the problem
are one, you and the chattering
are one, then all your effort to change it
comes to an end. Then you are facing
the fact that your mind
is chattering, that you are chattering. So when you so observe,
what takes place? In that observation, you have brought
all your energy to observe. That energy has been
dissipated by saying 'How am I to stop it?' You understand this? I wonder
if you understand this? Can we go on? So the problem is: can the mind... That is, the mind
being the senses, the feelings, the reactions, the emotions, the intellect - all that is the mind,
right? Can that mind,
- including the brain - can that mind
be absolutely quiet? You understand
my question? Because that is
part of meditation: to bring about, as people try to do, to bring about through
various systems, methods, controls, and so on, so the mind is
absolutely quiet, because it is only when
the mind is quiet completely that you can hear
- right? - that you can see. So the various forms
of meditation, the Tibetan, Hindu, the nonsensical
TM meditation, you know,
transcendental meditation, a nice word spoilt,
isn't it? 'Transcendental' is ruined
by this cheap nonsense. All these various forms
of meditation have tried, through control,
through relaxation, through self-hypnosis - by repetition,
repetition - to bring about
a quiet mind, which means
- listen to it - which means allowing time
to bring this. You understand? One's mind
is not quiet now, but I will practise,
I will control, I will be aware, and through time
it will come about. Right? But when there is
understanding of the truth that time is illusory,
you can't change it, time will not change
- you understand? - then you are faced
with the fact, that your mind
is chattering. When you are observing
a fact, completely, with all your energy,
the fact changes. You will see, if you
do it, you will see it. Because you have brought
your energy into the observation, and that energy
has been dissipated, when you are trying
to change 'what is.' Look, I will show you
something. Human beings are violent,
right? For various reasons, we won't
go into it for the moment. And human beings have
invented non-violence. Right? The non-violence
is a non-fact. Are you following this? The fact is violence. But when you try
to pursue non-violence, you are pursuing
a non-fact, and also pursuing
allowing time. And when you realise
time does not change, bring about change, then
you are faced with the fact, which is violence. Not 'how to change it.' There is this
fact of violence. Now, can the mind
observe this fact of violence, without any direction, without
any pressure, just to observe it? You understand?
Observe it. In that observation the mind has pulled together
all its energy. Right? So that energy
is like the light focused on the thing
called violence, and that violence
dissipates. Don't go to sleep,
please.
