Look, one may be afraid of darkness,
one may be afraid of losing one's wife, or husband,
one may be afraid of having no money,
one may be afraid of some past pain
and not wanting it again,
one may be afraid of a dozen things.
And analytically you can go through them one by one,
which is such a waste of time,
isn't it?
Whereas it would be much simpler and more direct
if you go to the root of fear.
I don't think many of us realise, or are aware deeply,
the nature of fear, what it does to human beings.
Because when there is fear
there are many kinds of neurotic actions.
Fear of being lonely,
most of us are, most of you are lonely
and so you seek companionship, escaping from loneliness.
So companionship becomes very important,
and if you have no companionship, fear arises.
Or out of that loneliness
you build a wall around yourself,
you resist, you escape,
and out of that escape, resistance, suppression,
grows every form of neurotic action.
So, it is very important to understand
the nature and the structure of fear,
because it will not give clarity.
And if there is no clarity, there is no awakening of intelligence,
which is our meeting:
we have gathered together here
to see if we cannot awaken that intelligence
which is neither yours nor mine, it is intelligence.
And that intelligence has its own action,
which is non-mechanistic,
and therefore without cause.
I wonder if you understand all this.
Somebody, yes?
So it's very important to understand,
and be free totally, completely of fear.
Is that what we are prepared to do?
Is that what we are thinking together?
We see the importance and the urgency of being completely,
both consciously as well as unconsciously,
to wipe fear away.
One can deal with conscious fears fairly comparatively easily.
But it's much more difficult
to be free of fears which you know not of,
fears that are hidden.
Do you understand this?
May I go on?
How are you going to examine the deep rooted fears?
Is it possible to examine them?
Psychologists say it is possible through analysis,
through dreams,
through careful psychoanalytical therapy.
That is, one must go into this question of analysis altogether
so that the mind is free from the analytical process,
because analysis doesn't clear up the mind.
There is no clarity in analysis
because the more you analyse the more there is.
And it might take you the whole of your life,
at the end of it you have nothing.
So, we are going to think together and find out the truth,
the truth, not yours or mine, but the truth of analysis.
Can we go together?
First of all, in analysis
there is the observer and the observed,
the analyser and the analysed.
Which is, the analyser says,
I am going to analyse my reactions,
my dreams, my desires, my fears,
but is the analyser different from the fear?
Different from the thing which he is going to analyse?
You must be very clear on this.
We are asking: is the analyser different from the analysed?
If you say they are different,
which most people do,
then you are caught in everlasting conflict.
That is, the analyser, being different,
he can examine
his responses of jealousy, anger, violence,
and in that examination, in that analysis,
the examiner thinks he is separate
and this separation will inevitably divide,
and therefore there must be conflict.
Where there is division there must be conflict,
whether division between two nations and so on,
divisions between man and woman
– not the woman is the same as the man,
obviously biologically they are not –
but the ideas,
the accumulated responses of each,
the images they have of each, they divide,
and therefore there is conflict in all relationships.
Right? Can we go on?