So what is observation, to observe?
To observe that thing without naming that thing
because the moment you have named that thing as a tree
you are observing it with a word, with a concept, with an image.
Go into it, sir, with me for a moment.
But to observe that thing without the word,
if you can do it. And that is comparatively easy.
But to observe psychologically your reactions,
all that goes on inwardly, just to observe it
without saying it is good, or bad,
this is hate, this is wrong, this is right,
without any movement of thought, just to observe.
Right?
So we are observing the reaction which we call fear.
Fear that comes into being when you feel that
it is necessary not to be attached, whatever it is.
Then the immediate reaction is fear.
Because in attachment you have found security, safety,
a sense of protection, and, with the ending of that,
there is this quivering of what is going to happen.
Can I tell my wife, or my husband, or boy or whatever it is,
I am not attached?
What will she do, or he do?
You understand what I am saying?
So we are now examining together... - observing, sorry -
we are observing the nature and the movement of fear.
That means your mind is free from all analytical conditioning.
Right?
Is it free?
Or you hold that back - the analytical process -
and you say, 'Well, I'll observe without analysis'.
That can't be done.
That's only playing games.
To observe, the whole sense of analytical conditioning must end
otherwise you cannot observe properly, accurately.
Because all our education,
all our conditioning is to analyse, see the cause,
see the effect, try to change the effect and so on and so on.
Only analysis is much more complex than that
but I am putting it very briefly, rather insufficiently.
But to observe is much more arduous than analysis.
To observe your wife or your husband
or your boy, or whatever it is
without the image that you have created about that person.
You understand my question?
Each one of us has an image
about the person with whom we live.
And in that image there is security.
But that image is not the actual person.
How that image is created,
whether that image can end is a different problem.
Which is, that image is created by thought,
by constant interaction, and with that image we live.
And so the image and the actuality are two different things.
Right? And so there is conflict, obviously.
It's struggle between two people,
man, woman, or wife and so on and so on,
constant struggle, conflict between two people
because they live on images.
When there is no image perhaps there will be love,
compassion, affection, care.