Can we see how important it is
to see this life as a total movement
in which everything is included,
in which there is no breaking down
as the good and the bad, and heaven and hell.
I will put it this way:
can one observe what it means to see holistically?
Can one see holistically – anything.
When you observe your friend, or your wife or your girl,
or your boy, husband,
can you observe, see holistically
in that relationship?
Are you following ? Right ?
Is that possible?
It is possible only
when there are no accumulated remembrances
which become the image.
In any relationship
there are accumulated remembrances, incidents,
which definitely leave a mark on the brain,
and therefore you always look at somebody,
or your wife and so on, fragmentarily.
Now can we,
serious, wanting to find a different way of living
in our daily life,
is it possible to look
at another in a relationship, intimate or not intimate,
as a whole?
Please, do it now as we are talking.
You are married, you have got girls and you have got boys,
you've got a husband, wife, etc.,
uncle, aunt, whatever it is,
can you look at another as a whole?
Which means not having
any remembrances or conclusions about another.
Therefore to observe holistically implies freedom.
We are getting on.
We think freedom is something 'from' something else.
To be free implies, generally as it's understood,
I am free from my sorrow, from my anxiety,
from my work or whatever it is,
which is really a reaction
therefore it's not freedom at all.
When a man says, I am free from smoking
– I hope you don't smoke, any of you,
because it is very bad for one's health,
but that's up to you –
when one says, I am free from smoking,
it is a response from what has been,
moving away from what has been.
But we are talking of freedom which is not from something,
which means to observe holistically. Right? Get it?