What You Believe You Experience.

Do You Know That Even When You Look At A Tree And Say, `that Is An Oak Tree', Or `that Is A Banyan Tree', The Naming Of The Tree, Which Is Botanical Knowledge, Has So Conditioned Your Mind That The Word Comes Between You And Actually Seeing The Tree? To Come In Contact With The Tree You Have To Put Your Hand On It And The Word Will Not Help You To Touch It.

A Cup Is Useful Only When It Is Empty; And A Mind That Is Filled With Beliefs, With Dogmas, With Assertions, With Quotations Is Really An Uncreative Mind.

When You Practice Meditation, The Meditator Becomes All-important And Not The Movement Of Meditation.

Do You Decide To Observe? Or Do You Merely Observe?

If I Want To Understand Something, I Must Observe, I Must Not Criticize, I Must Not Condemn, I Must Not Pursue It As Pleasure Or Avoid It As Non-pleasure. There Must Merely Be The Silent Observation Of A Fact.