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Commentaries On Living Series 2
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We all crave some kind of permanency, and seeing impermanence
about us, thought creates the thinker who is supposed to be
permanent. The thinker then proceeds to buildup other and higher
states of permanency: the soul, the atman, the higher self, and so on.
Thought is the foundation of this whole structure. |
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But, sir, the unraveller is still there; one may call him the higher self,
the atman, and so on, but he is still part of consciousness, the maker
of effort who is everlastingly trying to get somewhere. Effort is desire.
One desire can be overcome by a greater desire, and that desire by
still another, and so on endlessly. |
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Is silence to be cultivated, carefully nurtured and strengthened? And who is the cultivator? Is he different from the totality of your
being? Is there silence, a still mind, when one desire dominates all
others, or when it sets up resistance against them? Is there silence
when the mind is disciplined, shaped, controlled? Does not all this
imply a censor, a so-called higher self who controls judges, chooses?
And is there such an entity? If there is, is he not the product of
thought? Thought dividing itself as the high and the low, the
permanent and the impermanent, is still the outcome of the past, of
tradition, of time. In this division lies its own security. Thought or
desire now seeks safety in silence, and so it asks for a method or a
system which offers what it wants. In place of worldly things it now
craves the pleasure of silence, so it breeds conflict between what is
and what should be. There is no silence where there is conflict,
repression, resistance. |
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The mind is like a machine that is working night and day, chattering, everlastingly busy whether asleep or awake. It is speedy and as restless as the sea. Another part of this intricate and complex mechanism tries to control
the whole movement, and so begins the conflict between opposing
desires, urges. One may be called the higher self and the other the
lower self, but both are within the area of the mind. The action and
reaction of the mind, of thought, are almost simultaneous and almost
automatic. |
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