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The general title of these talks that I'm giving here is mind over mind
and I'm going into all various problems which have to do with the control of the
mind. And so I might introduce what I'm going
to say by saying it from different points of view.
For example, if you're interested in communications,
it will be the problem of feedback or if I may put it in theological terms.
How does man follow the will of God if the will of man is perverse?
The theologians say uh you cannot do this without having divine grace or the
power to follow the will of God. How then do you get grace?
Why is grace given to some and not to others?
If I cannot follow the will of God by my own effort because my will is selfish,
how will my will which is selfish be transformed into an unselfish will? If I
cannot do it because I am alread the selfish will,
then grace must do it. If grace has not already done it, why
not? Because I didn't accept it.
But by definition I had no power to accept it because my will was selfish.
Must I then become a Calvinist and say that only those
people who are predestined to receive grace will be able to live the good
life. Then
we come back to the inadmissible position that people who live evil lives
and do not get grace because they are not predestined to it out of the infinite
wisdom of the Godhead, then God himself must be held responsible for their evil deeds.
And so that is a nice little tangle. If I put this in uh the language of
oriental philosophy and religion, it would be something like this.
The Buddha said that wisdom must come only from the abandonment of selfish
craving or desire. One who abandons that desire attains
nirvana which is supreme peace liberation.
Nirvana means in Sanskrit blow out that is exhale the breath.
The opposite desire is to breathe in. Now if you breathe in and hold it
you lose your breath. But if you breathe out
it comes back to you. So the principle here is if you want
life don't cling to it let go. But the problem is
if I desire not to desire, is that not already desire?
How can I desire not to desire? How can I surrender myself
when myself is precisely an urge to hold on to cling to cling to
life to continue to survive? I can see rationally that by clinging to myself I
may strangle myself. I may be like a person who has a bad
habit as a result of which he is committing suicide and he knows that but
can't give it up because the means of death are so sweet.
So it all comes down to this basic question that human beings have for a long long
time been concerned about transforming their minds.
Is there any way in which one's mind can be transformed
or is it simply a process which is nothing more than a vicious circle? I could ask, why have you come here this
afternoon? What were you looking for?
Would it be too presumptuous of me to say that you were looking for help?
that you hoped you would hear somebody who had something to say
that would be of help and relevance to you as members
of a world which is running into the most intense difficulty.
A world beset by a complex of problems, any one of
which would be bad enough. But when you add together all the great political,
social and ecological problems with which we are faced, they are appalling.
And one naturally says the reason why we are in such a mess is not
simply that we have wrong systems for doing things, whether they be technological, political, or religious,
but we have the wrong people. The systems may be all right, but they
are in the wrong hands because we are all in various ways self-seeking,
lacking in wisdom, lacking in courage, afraid of death, afraid of pain,
unwilling really to cooperate with others, unwilling to be open to others. And we
all think that's too bad. It's me that's wrong. And if only I could be the right
person, is this man going to tell me something that will help me to change myself
so that I will be a more creative and cooperative member of the human race. I
would like to improve.
So in so many people's minds and from so many different angles there is this
urgent feeling that I must improve me
and this is critically important because it's obvious that at least it's
superficially obvious that the way things are we are going to hell asked.
Now in this question, can I improve me?
There is the obvious difficulty th
Do you want grace? Well, ask God. Mayb