Tag:  Reform

• As long as there is not a radical, fundamental change, merely dealing with symptoms is not going to do anything. May 17, 2011

  What I call patchwork is this continual alteration in the existing system of thought, but keeping the foundation as it is intact. That is patchwork, isn't it? To keep things fundamentally as they a...

• To me, real reform, real change, real radical change of thought, lies not in the patchwork of reforming religions but in seeing the absurdity of religions. May 19, 2011

  To deal with the symptoms is to consider that you can stick to your particular religion and I can stick to mine, and let us be tolerant. Now, as I explained the other night, to me, the whole proces...

• As individuals, we are confronted with this problem, with this question, whether we will deal symptomatically, do patchwork, or bring about a complete change of thought May 20, 2011

  You, as individuals, have to find out what you intend to do, whether you shall belong to a society, to a system of thought, based on this self-aggrandizement, with all its nuances, with its delicat...

• When you understand you don't seek to modify, to alter, to reform. September 05, 2011

  Every man then is thwarted, and conscious of his own separateness he functions and acts in and through environment, battling against it and making colossal efforts to adjust, modify and alter circu...

• When you talk of reform, you really mean mere substitution. September 22, 2011

  Wherever there is dissatisfaction with environment, with circumstances, that discontent must lead to the desire for change, for reform. What you call reform is merely the creation of new sets of va...

• Mere experience cannot dissolve ignorance; it can only reform it. December 07, 2012

  Ignorance is the unawareness of the process of one's own thought and emotion. I have tried to explain what I mean by awareness. Will experience dissolve this ignorance? What do we mean by experi...

• We desire to reform another when we ourselves are in need of it most. March 13, 2013

  We have all, I am sure, tried to subdue anger but somehow that does not seem to dissolve it. Is there a different approach to dissipate anger? As I said last Sunday anger may spring from physical o...

• Our whole attention should be directed not to what we should do with regard to violence aimed at us, but to understand the cause of our own fear, hate, arrogance, or partisanship. March 14, 2013

  Questioner: In being completely dissociated from violence is it possible that my action can be dissociated? For example, if I am attacked, I kill for self-preservation as a part of violence. If I r...

• If your approach is comprehensive, integrated, whole, then you will have an answer which is real. November 29, 2014

  ... are you approaching life from the point of view of the reformer, that is doing patch work, or are you approaching it from a revolutionary point of view, which means that you have an idea you w...

• The immediate can only be understood, if we understand the timeless. November 30, 2014

  The immediate can only be understood, if we understand the timeless. The man who is concerned with the immediate can never understand the profound, for man is not merely the immediate. If he is see...

• Don't take sides. I am not taking sides. December 01, 2014

  Don't take sides. I am not taking sides. To the rightist the individual is important only so long as there is no crisis. When there is a war, the individual is no longer important. He is brought in...