Then the problem arises:
how am I to stop chattering?
You understand?
Listen to that very carefully.
You realise your mind is chattering,
then you say, 'How am I to stop it?'
The moment you have put the question,
you are already entered into the time element.
I wonder if you see that.
Yes?
So the 'how' means time,
and because you ask the 'how'
the other fellow invents the system,
invents the method, the practice,
put on the yellow robe, blue robe, or whatever it is.
So, see the mind chattering,
and you are not different from that chattering.
Your mind is chattering,
and your mind is you.
So when you have that principle,
that actual truth
that you and the problem are one,
you and the chattering are one,
then all your effort to change it comes to an end.
Then you are facing the fact
that your mind is chattering,
that you are chattering.
So when you so observe, what takes place?
In that observation,
you have brought all your energy to observe.
That energy has been dissipated by saying
'How am I to stop it?'
You understand this?
I wonder if you understand this?
Can we go on?
So the problem is:
can the mind...
That is, the mind being the senses,
the feelings,
the reactions,
the emotions,
the intellect
- all that is the mind, right?
Can that mind, - including the brain -
can that mind be absolutely quiet?
You understand my question?
Because that is part of meditation:
to bring about,
as people try to do,
to bring about through various systems, methods,
controls, and so on,
so the mind is absolutely quiet,
because it is only when the mind is quiet completely
that you can hear - right? -
that you can see.
So the various forms of meditation,
the Tibetan, Hindu,
the nonsensical TM meditation,
you know, transcendental meditation,
a nice word spoilt, isn't it?
'Transcendental' is ruined by this cheap nonsense.
All these various forms of meditation have tried,
through control, through relaxation,
through self-hypnosis
- by repetition, repetition -
to bring about a quiet mind,
which means - listen to it -
which means allowing time to bring this.
You understand?
One's mind is not quiet now,
but I will practise, I will control,
I will be aware,
and through time it will come about.
Right?
But when there is understanding of the truth
that time is illusory, you can't change it,
time will not change - you understand? -
then you are faced with the fact,
that your mind is chattering.
When you are observing a fact,
completely, with all your energy, the fact changes.
You will see, if you do it, you will see it.
Because you have brought your energy into the observation,
and that energy has been dissipated,
when you are trying to change 'what is.'
Look, I will show you something.
Human beings are violent, right?
For various reasons, we won't go into it for the moment.
And human beings have invented non-violence.
Right?
The non-violence is a non-fact.
Are you following this?
The fact is violence.
But when you try to pursue non-violence,
you are pursuing a non-fact,
and also pursuing allowing time.
And when you realise time does not change,
bring about change, then you are faced with the fact,
which is violence.
Not 'how to change it.'
There is this fact of violence.
Now, can the mind observe
this fact of violence,
without any direction, without any pressure, just to observe it?
You understand? Observe it.
In that observation
the mind has pulled together all its energy.
Right?
So that energy is like the light
focused on the thing called violence,
and that violence dissipates.
Don't go to sleep, please.