When you are confronting a fact, every thought is a form of resistance. Why should you have a thought? Can you not look at something without thought? Can you look at a flower, a tree, a woman, a man, a child, an animal without thought? That is, can you look at a flower non-biologically, non-botanically? When you look at a flower with the knowledge you have concerning the flower – what kind of flower it is, the colour, the perfume, the beauty – all that interferes from looking at the flower. Which is, the thought process prevents you from looking. Just understand this, not say, ‘How am I to get to that stage when can I look without the word, without thought?’ There is no system, no path. But if you understand that you do not see anything clearly, definitely, sanely if thought interferes, then you stop thinking and look. From Public Talk 8, New Delhi, 14 February 1962 Read more |