There is a challenge in this world: there must be a different order of things because there is such tremendous injustice – there is brutality, such appalling violence. That is the challenge, and you have to meet it. Challenges are always new, obviously, otherwise it is not a challenge. But the mind meets the challenge with the old mind – as a Christian, as a Hindu, as a communist, you know, all the rest of it. So the mind’s response to the challenge is inadequate and therefore there is conflict. Whereas if the mind can look at that challenge without the response of the past, there is totally different kind of action. From Public Discussion 1, Sydney, 17 November 1970 Read more |