Tag:  Becoming

• Truth is in the silent observation of what is, and it is truth that transforms what is. July 22, 2009

  The very desire to take shelter through conditioning breeds more strife, more problems; for conditioning is separating, and the separate, the isolated cannot live. The separate, by joining itself ...

• All one's education, all one's past experience and knowledge is a movement in becoming, both inwardly, psychologically as well as outwardly. October 21, 2009

  So I would like to come back to the question: all one's education, all one's past experience and knowledge is a movement in becoming, both inwardly, psychologically as well as outwardly. Becoming i...

• Mere reformation of the pattern of society only alters the surface, it brings about a more respectable form of ambition. December 03, 2009

  Society is not changed by example. Society may reform itself, it may bring about certain changes through political or economic revolution, but only the religious man can create a fundamental transf...

• We must first understand the process of becoming and all its implications before we can comprehend what is being. November 29, 2013

  We must first understand the process of becoming and all its implications before we can comprehend what is being. Is not the structure of our thought-feeling based on time? Do we not think-feel in ...

• The ways of becoming are very subtle and till the becomer is aware of them he will continue to become, to be in conflict and sorrow. December 01, 2013

  The becomer desires to translate his becoming into being. He sees perhaps the futility of becoming and desires to transform that process into being; instead of becoming, now he must be. He sees the...

• [There] is a constant battle between 'what you are' and 'what you would like to become'. May 22, 2014

  The conflict of the opposites exists in all the different layers of our existence - social, economic, political, inward, psychological, spiritual and so on. This is a constant battle between 'what ...

• if we can understand 'becoming' and 'being', then perhaps we shall understand what happiness is. June 20, 2014

  As I said last week, what is sought through an object, either material or psychological, can never yield happiness. In that case what seems to be happiness is merely gratification which is always i...

• Becoming is continuous and have you noticed that that which is continuous is always binding. June 21, 2014

  Surely becoming and being are two wholly different states. Becoming is continuous and have you noticed that that which is continuous is always binding. Relationship is binding if it is merely conti...

• Has not non-greed the element of greed? October 03, 2014

  When I am stupid I want to become clever. Is not "becoming clever" a part of stupidity? There is conflict between what I am and the thing which I want to be. The thing which I want to be is part of...

• The ideal does not exist nor is it understood. When you understand this and when you don't pursue this 'becoming', then fear ceases and you face 'what is'. December 03, 2014

  Fear exists not by itself but only in relationship to something either external or inside oneself. You are always afraid of something. Fear is the result of (i) doing something which you would not ...

• The ideal is a real curse because it really prevents you from understanding what is; December 04, 2014

  Relationship, as it exists now, is one series of conflicts, giving in at one time and getting upset at another time and so on. It is a constant battle between yourself and your wife, between yourse...

• To understand the implications of what you actually are now, your mind must be free and concentrated; but if your mind is thinking in terms of the ideal, then it is distracted by the ideal. February 18, 2015

  The pursuit of an ideal also implies the 'conflict of opposites'. The ideal is something which you are not. You are this and you want to 'become' that which is your ideal. To understand the implica...

• The fact is that you are nobody. Why not start from there and face facts directly without trying to become 'somebody'? February 23, 2015

  The man who is something and who wants to 'become the ideal' of loving, and does not know 'what is', is merely thinking in terms of 'becoming' something. He has the ideal, the authority, the fear, ...

• In becoming there is always repetition, and therefore the cultivation of memory, which is emphasis on the self, and the self in its very nature is travail, strife, battle. June 22, 2015

  Now, is life, existence, inevitably a process of struggle, pain, sorrow, a continuous battle? Surely, there is something wrong in this action of becoming, There must be a different approach, a diff...

• All that I can do is to be aware, passively aware of my process of becoming. June 23, 2015

  Now, how is one to transform, to bring about this radical change from becoming to being? A person who is becoming and therefore striving, struggling, battling with himself - how is such a person to...