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Collected Works. Vol. III
Is there a way by which we can end conflict and sorrow without
destroying creative intelligence and integral completeness? Can
there ever be choiceless living, that is, can there ever be action
without denial or aggressive want? Can there be action which is
spontaneous and thus free of the conflict of opposites? Can there
ever be a life of fullness without the withering process of
discipline, denial, fear and frustration? Is such a state of deep
comprehension ever possible? I wonder how many of you are vitally
conscious of this conflict in the battlefield of the mind.
A life of fullness, a life of choiceless action, a life free from
the withering process of subjugation and substitution, is possible.
How is this state to be realized? Systems and methods cannot produce
this happy state of mind. This condition of choiceless life must
come about naturally, spontaneously; it cannot be sought after. It
is not to be understood or realized or conquered through a
discipline, through a system. One can condition the mind through
training, discipline, and compulsion, but such conditioning cannot
nourish thought or awaken deep intelligence. Such a trained mind is
as the soil that is barren.
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Collected Works. Vol. III Ommen Camp, Holland, %th Public Talk, 1st August, 1936
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