So the question is: whether it is possible to live
without a single image,
and who is it that creates the images?
There you are, you are sitting there, all of you,
and you have an image about the speaker, haven't you?
Otherwise you wouldn't be here.
That is a fact.
Right?
The image that you have built about the speaker is not the speaker.
Right?
But you worship that image,
or you may not worship it or you might kick it
or disregard it, but still you have created an image about the speaker,
and so your relationship is with the image
and not with the speaker at all,
because to have a relationship with the speaker
we must meet each other at the same level
at the same time with the same intensity.
Right?
You understand?
For God's sake.
Isn't that love?
When you meet somebody
at the same level,
at the same time,
with the same intensity
– not sexually, I am not talking only that,
but with all your human being, with your whole being,
then that is love.
And there is no love if you have the images about each other.
And where there is love there is no time.
Where there is love there is no conflict.
And to understand that extraordinary thing called love
we must have great intelligence,
and not fear, not ambition, not greed,
not jealousy, hatred.
So we are asking
why has thought become so important in our lives?
Realising what thought has done,
technologically what it has done,
immense things,
both appalling, fearful, dangerous, diabolical things,
and also thought has created medicine, surgery, communication.
And also thought has created war,
divided people as the Hindu, the Buddhist,
you know, all the nonsense.
Unless thought has been totally understood,
and thought has its place,
and thought may not have any place at all psychologically.
You understand what I am saying?
As we said,
thought is limited because knowledge is limited,
experience is limited.
And in relationship,
if thought is the means of communication with each other,
there must be conflict.
And also thought is necessary for you to get home,
to take the bus,
to go to your office, not tomorrow, Sunday, but Monday,
and to go to the office for the rest of your life,
day after day, day after day, day after day.
This is all the product of thought.
One knows one has to go to your office,
to a factory, to your business and so on,
there thought is necessary.
But is thought necessary in relationship?
Enquire into it, go into it, you will find out.