What is action?
We’re all so active from morning ’til night, not only physically
but psychologically, the brain everlastingly chattering,
going from one thing to another endlessly
during the day and during the night,
the dreams, the brain is never at rest, it’s perpetually in motion.
I do not know if you have gone into that question of action.
What is action, the doing?
The very word ‘doing’ is the present, it’s not having done or will do.
Action means the doing now, correctly, accurately, completely, holistically
– if I can use that word – action that is whole, complete, not partial.
When action is based on some ideology, it’s not action, is it?
It’s a conformity to a certain pattern which you have established
and therefore it’s incomplete action,
or according to some memory, some conclusion.
If you act according to certain ideology, pattern or conclusion,
it is still incomplete; there is a contradiction in all this.
So one has to inquire into this very complex problem of action.
Is action related to disorder or to order?
You understand?
We live in disorder, our life is disorderly, confused;
contradictory: saying one thing, doing another;
thinking one thing and quite the opposite in our actions.
So what is order and disorder?
Perhaps you have not thought about all these matters,
so let us think together about all this and look,
please don’t let me talk to myself.
It’s still early in the morning and you have a whole day in front of you;
so let us be aware together of this question:
what is order and what is disorder
and what is the relationship of action to order and disorder?
We more or less explained what is action;
the very word ‘to act’ means the present, acting:
you are sitting there.
And what is the relationship to disorder?
What is disorder?
Look at the world if you will; the world is in disorder.
Terrible things are happening.
Very few of us know actually what is happening in the scientific world,
in the world of the art of war
and all the terrible things that are happening in Russia;
and the poverty in all countries, the rich and the terribly poor;
always the threat of war,
one political group against another political group.
So there is this tremendous disorder.
That’s an actuality, it’s not an invention or an illusion.
And we have created this disorder,
because our very life, living, is disorderly.
And we are trying socially to bring about order
through all the social reforms and so on, so on.
Without understanding and bringing about the end of disorder,
we try to find order.
It’s like a confused mind trying to find clarity.
A confused mind is a confused mind, it can never find clarity.
So can there be an end to disorder in our life, our daily life?
Not order in heaven or in another place,
but in our daily life can there be order?
The end of disorder,
and when there is the end of disorder there is naturally order.
That order is living,
it’s not according to a certain pattern or a mould.