So can we, in living, intimately or not,
be free of attachment immediately, which is death!
You understand what I am saying?
Do you understand?
Death will not argue with you.
Death, you won't say, you won't tell:
'Then give me some more time, please wait'.
But if you know what death is, which is the ending. Right?
The ending while you are living; the ending of attachment.
You follow now?
Which is what death is going to say to you:
'You must leave everything behind you'.
But such an ending is frightening.
Right? So you believe in reincarnation, you want hope
and all the rest of it; or in heaven, resurrected and all that.
Now, while we are living can you end something?
Not smoking and all that silly stuff
but much more deeply, psychologically:
end to your greed, end to your aggression,
end to your dogmatic beliefs and experiences, you follow, end it.
When you end something there is a totally new beginning. Right?
I wonder if you see this.
But when you end it through analysis,
through will, you are not ending it.
Right? This is difficult. All right, I'll explain it.
If there is a motive for ending
then that motive is put together by thought, by desire,
and when you analyse and therefore end it
it is still the process of thought - right? -
which continues in other forms but you have ended it
in a particular direction. Right?
Have you understood this? Right.
So we are saying, observe without direction
attachment, or aggression, or your violence.
Observe it without any motive, direction, desire,
just to observe it
and in that very observation there is an ending of it.
And therefore you are inviting death while living. You follow?
I wonder if you understand this?
Not commit suicide, that's another thing.
But the mind that lives in conflict, pain, suffering,
without any sense of affection, love, because it is self-centred
and one of the many facets of this self-centre is
this aggression, competition, greed,
end one of those, or many of those, immediately, easily.
Then you are living quite a different kind of life in this world.
So, death is while living. You understand?
Do you understand this?
Not at the end of life
when you are old, gaga and diseased,
unconscious, go through all that misery, you understand?
But to end the things that the mind has collected
easily, with certain grace,
so that there is a different quality of the mind.
You understand?
Such a mind has not this continuity and constancy.