Another deeper problem is
whether the brain, which is constantly recording,
recording your reactions, conscious or unconscious,
recording every incident which affects the psyche,
can that record stop?
Please, meditation isn’t something you play with, if you are serious.
You can play with it, it’s your affair,
but if one wants to go very deeply into the whole nature of meditation,
one has to investigate all this and be absolutely clear,
not vague and fanciful, or imaginative.
Can this recording, which is psychological knowledge,
because that’s what is happening,
when you tell me something that is harmful to me,
that is, you insult me or flatter me, both are the same,
it is recorded.
That becomes the knowledge
and can that recording of this brain,
operate where it is necessary,
and where it is psychologically not necessary,
end?
Are we working together in all this, or am I talking…?
Probably, it’s all new to you.
So, what will bring about the end of recording?
You understand the importance of it?
I record an insult.
It has wounded me, the image which I have about myself.
That image is hurt by your insult, by your word, by a gesture.
Or that image is strengthened through flattery.
When you come and tell me, ‘What a marvellous talk that was’.
The brain records that knowledge.
You understand?
So, when you insult or flatter, to have no record.
That is to learn.
To learn the process of recording,
what is implied in the recording,
the consequences of that recording,
when you flatter me you are my friend,
when you insult me, you are my enemy,
you’re a foreigner, barbarian,
but when you are pleasant,
then you are my friend.
The consequences of recording are very superficial
but it is the deeper layers of that,
the recording of deep incidents, of deep relationship,
deep experiences that one holds to,
conclusions, theoretical, practical and so on,
all those are forms of recording.
On that record we live, psychologically.
Of course, one needs to record how to go to the office,
take the bus at a certain time and so on.
If you are a carpenter, a surgeon or a scientist,
there must be recording
– not that the scientists are helping the world.
In certain ways, they are
and in other ways they are helping
to bring about the destruction of man,
because the poet, the artist, the scientist have partial insight.
It’s only the religious mind that has total insight.
So, is that possible?
To have a brain that only records that which is absolutely necessary
and not record anything else. You understand the beauty of it?
In that, there is tremendous freedom,
that is real freedom,
not the freedom that money gives,
or some fanciful, imaginative idea of freedom.