Religion is something that cannot be put into words. It cannot be measured by words, for thought is the measure and thought is the response of the past. Thought is never free; it is always functioning within the field of the known. So a mind that is capable of understanding what truth is, what reality is, if there is such thing as reality, must be completely free of all the human tricks, human deceptions and illusions. This takes a lot of work. It means an inward discipline, a discipline which is not imitation, conformity or adjustment. Discipline comes in the observation of ‘what is’ and learning about it. The ‘learning about’ is its own discipline. Therefore there is order, and end of disorder in oneself. All this is part of meditation.
From Public Talk 4, Santa Monica, California, 8 March 1970