What is reality?
Is there something which is not put together by the mind,
by thought, by imagination?
Is there something which is not measurable,
which man has been seeking for thousands and thousands of years?
You’ve understood my question?
Man has always asked, from the beginning of time,
knowing that his life comes to an end,
knowing that he is always
endlessly in conflict with himself and with the world,
and knowing that he cannot bring order into that,
then he asks if there is something beyond all that.
In that very asking, he is escaping from his own life.
You understand?
We are not escaping. We see order is necessary,
that must be established.
Then you can ask the question – after establishing,
laying the foundation of behaviour, righteousness, order –
then one can ask the question: 'Is there something beyond all this?'
You are following me?
Am I making myself clear?
Now, how is one going to find out?
You can believe in something,
you can believe that there is something
which is beyond time and thought.
Belief is not an actuality.
You don’t believe that the sun is shining – it is shining.
It’s only when you do not know,
when you haven’t understood, when it isn’t in your mind,
then you believe, then you have faith in something.
So, to find that out, the mind must be free totally from belief,
mustn’t it?
Belief implies fear.
There is your belief, another’s belief.
Belief divides people.
So the mind must be free,
free from fear
which has created all our conditioning,
both physical conditioning as well as psychological conditioning.
So can the mind be free of fear?
Fear exists only in the movement of thought.
And from that realisation, one says, ‘Can thought be quiet?’
Thought functioning logically, sanely,
effectively in one direction,
and completely quiet in another direction.
Because thought creates fear.
That is, you are living now,
and there is death.
Death is some time in the future, or perhaps tomorrow or far away.
Thought says, ‘I am afraid of that state of which I do not know,
therefore I am frightened.’
Fear is, as pleasure, the product of thought.
If you see the truth of that, not intellectually, verbally,
then fear comes to an end.