It
is extremely difficult to talk about this, to convey in words the thing
that actually happens when you do not desire any particular change.
After all, that is what we mean by integration, is it not? When you see
the whole process of the mind, when you are aware of the various
struggles, divisions, cleavages, and in the centre there is no movement
to transform or to bring these cleavages together then the observer is
essentially quiet. He does not wish to trans form anything, he is
merely aware that these things are happening - which requires enormous
patience, does it not? But most of us are so eager to change, to do
something about ourselves; we are impatient for an end, for a result.
When the mind is aware of its own activities, not only the conscious,
but also the unconscious, then you do not have to examine the
unconscious to bring the hidden things to the surface - they are there.
But we do not know how to observe. And
don't ask, "How am I to observe, what is the technique? "The moment
you have a technique it is finished, you do not observe. The quietness
of the centre comes only when you are aware of all this, and you see
that you cannot do anything about it: it is so. As
long as the mind
is active in its desire to transform itself, it can only be a model of
its own projection; therefore there is no transformation. If you really
see the truth of this, then there comes a state of mind which is not
concerned with change at all - and therefore a change does take place.
As I said, this is a very difficult subject to talk about. It is more
a question, not of verbal or so-called intellectual comprehension, but
of feeling out for oneself how the activities of the mind do impede the
radical change.K
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