It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.
My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.
Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.
If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.
Those who play a safe game die very safely.
Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don’t you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.
Meditation is the action of silence.
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
When you are free, you have no choice.
You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy.
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.