Volume 1
Duration: 93 minutes
• What is the aim of this school?
• Are you learning here?
• What is your attitude towards learning?
• Curiosity, energy and attention.
• One can learn only when there is freedom.
• Freedom doesn’t mean to do what you want to do.
• The nature and structure of authority.
2. Authority and influence - 9 May 1975
Duration: 108 minutes
• Learning what is implied in authority.
• Why is conformity to authority so strong in the world?
• Why do you accept authority?
• Most people accept authority as a means of survival, both psychological and physiological.
• Are you aware that you are influencing others and others are influencing you?
• If I am being influenced by everything around me, there is no freedom.
• Is it possible to have a mind which has not been influenced at all?
• Why do you have images?
3. What is the most important thing in life? - 11 May 1975
Duration: 101 minutes
• What is the most important thing to learn in life?
• Ambition, relationship, thought and love.
• What is the most essential thing in life, which will cover the whole field of existence?
• Are you curious about one or two things or are you curious about the whole of life?
• Energy and curiosity.
• Why aren’t you totally, completely curious about yourself?
• A mind that is in disorder cannot learn.
4. Excellence - 15 May 1975
Duration: 90 minutes
• What is the starting point of inquiry and learning.
• The moment there is a competitive spirit, excellence ceases.
• Why are you competitive?
• Do you see that you are conditioned to compete?
• Why do you have opinions?
5. Like and dislike - 18 May 1975
Duration: 95 minutes
• Are you envious of other people?
• Why dislike a fact?
• Why do you dislike somebody?
• Opposites.
• Violence implies comparison.
• Can the mind, so heavily conditioned for millions of years, free itself?
• Is this place helping you to be unconditioned altogether?
• The spirit of learning.
6. Meditation and yoga - 22 May 1975
Duration: 83 minutes
• Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga.
• Meditation and controlling thought.
• Mechanical meditation.
• Reality and illusion.
• Fact and truth.
• Complete action, out of time.
• What is action which has no motive, which is not related to the past or to the future?
• To empty consciousness of its content is part of meditation.
• A sensitive, healthy, vital body is necessary if you want to know what meditation is.
7. Thinking - 25 May 1975
Duration: 90 minutes
• Is there a thinking without words, images, symbols?
• Thought is a movement in time.
• The description, the word, is not the truth. The truth is ‘what is’.
• Seeing the fact.
• In becoming there is no stability, no security, no certainty.
8. The untidy mind - 29 May 1975
Duration: 87 minutes
• Listening, interest and attention.
• Experience.
• What keeps the memory of yesterday’s incidents active?
• An untidy mind cannot have a deep interest in anything.
• Images and hurts.
• Are you aware that your mind is untidy?
• What am I?
(Volume 1 on its own = £16)
Volume 2
9. What silence is - 1 June 1975
Duration: 90 minutes
• What do you mean by seeing?
• If I am aware that I am silent, is that silence?
• Observing without the past.
• When you realise you are greed, what happens?
• What does it mean to learn?
• Why is it important to learn about oneself?
• The mirror of relationship.
10. Death and ending - 3 June 1975
Duration: 93 minutes
• What does death mean to you?
• Attachment, loss and loneliness.
• Being and becoming.
• Ending every day.
• Dropping habits.
• What takes place in the interval between thoughts?
11. What will change man? - 12 June 1975
Duration: 103 minutes
• What does ‘to change’ really mean?
• What does it mean to be aware?
• Is there a difference between awareness and consciousness?
• Perception is timeless.
• Seeing the whole of something.
• My mind is chattering and I am aware of it. Am I different from that chattering?
12. The superficial mind - 15 June 1975
Duration: 96 minutes
• How can we go deeply if we’re always living at the verbal level?
• Are you aware of the fact without the description?
• What happens to a superficial mind?
• Are you aware that you are living at the level of superficiality?
• A limited mind is a dangerous mind.
• Can a superficial mind know what love and beauty are?
• What is beauty?
13. Respect - 19 June 1975
Duration: 110 minutes
• Can you cultivate respect?
• Do you have respect for anybody?
• Do you admire anybody or anything?
• Excellence has nothing whatsoever to do with ambition.
• Is respect mechanical?
• Disrespect.
14. The whole content of my consciousness is me - 22 June 1975
Duration: 103 minutes
• Is there a quality of mind that will solve problems and not carry them?
• Are you aware that your mind is confused?
• Is confusion brought about through comparison?
• If I am anger, I can’t do anything about it. It is. That is the truth. What I do about anger is not truth.
• What is it that brings about clarity in consciousness?
• Seeing and action.
• What relationship has respect to discipline?
15. Knowledge does not change man - 26 June 1975
Duration: 88 minutes
• Why do we have beliefs?
• If you don’t accept anything but are actually capable of observing, there is no necessity for any belief.
• Since knowledge has not changed man radically, what will bring about a change in man?
• It is your tremendous responsibility to change.
• Intelligent action.
(Volume 2 on its own = £14)