Like the soldiers throughout the world are highly disciplined people...
...and that very discipline encourages violence.
I don't know if you have not thought about this.
A soldier is trained, day after day, month after month...
...suppressing his personality, suppressing his desires, conforming...
...to a pattern, and there is this very, very strict discipline.
And that discipline when it is in action against somebody it is violent.
That is war. Obviously.
The word 'discipline' means to learn...
...not to conform, not to suppress, not to imitate but to learn.
Now, in our thinking together we are going to observe whether...
...there can be an action in our daily life without this quality...
...of conformity, without this quality of imitation to a pattern...
...to an idea, to a nationalism, and so on and so on.
I hope you are following all this.
For some this may be totally new so please have the goodness to listen.
To listen implies that you are interested in trying to find out.
You know you have listened to yourself probably many times.
You have listened to others but one always listens partially.
And when you listen partially you don't listen at all.
When you listen, you listen.
Right?
Now we are going to find out why man has submitted himself...
...to a series of disciplines, not only in the physical world...
...technological world, but also psychologically.
And is this discipline helping man to free himself from his idiosyncrasies...
...his conflicts, his problems, his relationship and so on?
You understand my question?
Right?
Are you all very hot?
Can one listen without effort, first?
Not to the speaker only but to learn the art of listening...
...which means not creating an image about the speaker...
...about the person who is speaking - your wife, your husband, and so on...
...not to have an image when you are listening.
Right?
Not to have a concept, not to hold on to one's own knowledge and as you...
...are listening interpret what is being said according to your knowledge.
All this denies actual listening.
If you want to see something very clearly you must give your attention.
Attention implies not concentration, just observation...
...to see what is actually happening.
Like a good scientist looking through a microscope...
...he must look what is actually taking place.
But if he has a hypothesis, a conclusion, with that he is looking...
...then he is incapable of pure observation of what is going on.
Right? Please.
Therefore there is the art of listening, the art of observing...
...seeing, then there is the art of thinking together.