Is It Possible to End the Thousand Yesterdays?: Claremont 1968 - Students Discussion 3 (Original Recording‪)‬

Is it possible to end the thousand yesterdays? - 13 November 1968

• Living together amicably, creatively, in complete relationship with one another – if that is what is essential then we need not only a different kind of mind but also a different quality of affection, love.

• What is the function of a religious mind?

• Our struggle in life is dualistic: good and bad, right and wrong, holy and unholy, the ideal and the fact. There is only the fact, not the ideal.

• Is it possible to look at life as though you are looking for the first time?

• What is the content of the unconscious? It is the racial residue, the traditional, the family, the personal. It is as trivial as the conscious mind.

• Q: It seems to me that the ‘I’, the ego only exists in relation to other things. Could you comment on this?

• The impossible becomes possible only when you discard the impossibility of it. To find out anything you must go beyond the impossible.

• Q: What do you mean by meditation?

• There is no ‘how’.