One has to go in to and find out how the image comes in to being and if it is possible to stop the machinery that creates it. Then only is there relationship between human beings – it will not be between two images, which are dead entities.
It is very simple. You flatter me , you respect me ; and I have an image about you, through insult through flattery. I have experience – pain , death, misery, conflict, hunger, loneliness. All that creates an image in me ; I am that image. Not that I am the image, not that the image and I are different ; but the I is that image; the thinker is that image. It is the thinker that creates the image. Through his responses , through his reactions – physical, psychological , intellectual , and so on – the thinker , the observer , the experiences , creates that image through memory, through thought. So the machinery is thinking, the machinery comes in to existence through thought. And thought is necessary, otherwise you cannot exist.
So, first see the problem ; thought creates the thinker. The thinker begins to create the image about himself… He creates the image and he lives in it. So thinking is the beginning of this machinery. And you will say ‘ How can I stop thinking ?’ You cannot. But one can think and not create the image.
Continues… ON NEXT SATURDAY 29 / 01 / 11
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