Can the mind observe without comparison?

1. Living with a sustained seriousness - 21February 1970
Duration: 91 minutes
• What does it mean to be serious?
• Becoming
• Why do I compare myself with you or with somebody else?
• Do I look at people through images?
2. Can the brain operate without recourse to the past?- 22February 1970
Duration: 92 minutes
• Is there self-progress?
• Conflict
• Security
• Any form of division within oneself is a source of conflict.
• Can the brain be quiet?
3. What makes one control? - 14March 1970
Duration: 97 minutes
• Violence
• Why do you control?
• Security means to be in a state in which there is no choice at all.
• The mind has become sensitive because it has observed, not because it has
experienced.
• Either you see the fact with the past or you see the fact as it is now.
• The word is of the past.
4. Being serious without belief - 15March 1970
Duration: 77 minutes
• Can the intellect, a fragment, ever be serious? Serious in the sense of a
sustained observation without any distortion.
• Control
• What is living?
• How does it happen that one can be completely harmonious?
• What does awareness mean?
5. Attention leads to learning - 21March 1970
Duration: 93 minutes
• Inattention and attention.
• Observing without the word.
• What is the function of sleep?
• Is love a matter of culture, a thing of pleasure and therefore dependency?
6. Fear in consciousness - 22March 1970
Duration: 89 minutes
• How does it happen that the deep layers hidden in consciousness can be
exposed?
• Comparison between what is with what has been and what will be, is the
process of fear.
• Can the mind observe without comparison?
7. What is order?- 28March 1970
Duration: 81 minutes
• Order and disorder.
• Why does the mind accumulate?
• How do you receive something that is not of the mind?
8. How is one to be entirely free of fear?- 29March 1970
Duration: 90 minutes
• Fear
• All the escaping and the strengthening of fear comes because we are
inattentive.
• What is sleep?