Action which transforms us as human beings,
which brings regeneration, redemption, transformation
- call it what we will -
such action is not based on idea.
It is action irrespective of the sequence of reward or punishment.
Such action is timeless, because mind,
which is the time process,
the calculating process,
the dividing,
isolating process,
does not enter into it.Listening!
When we want to understand something,
what is the state of our mind?
We are listening, just listening.
Our mind is in a state where the thought process is not active
but is very alert.
That alertness is not of time, is it?
We are merely being alert, passively receptive and yet fully aware;
and it is only in this state that
there is understanding.
- Thought is the result of environment,
of social and religious influences,
which is all part of time.
Now, can thought be free of time?
That is, thought which is the result of time,
can it stop and be free from the process of time?
Thought can be controlled, shaped;
but the control of thought is still within the field of time
and so our difficulty is:
How can a mind that is the result of time,
of many thousand yesterdays,
be instantaneously free of this complex background?
We can be free of it, not tomorrow but in the present,
in the now
all our activity is based on thought?
Whatever we do is based on thought.
All relationships are based on thought.
All inventions, all technological achievement,
all commerce,
all the arts,
are the activity of thought...
As you are enabled to think greater, deeper, higher
and more forceful thoughts, the brain cells are refined,
they become more powerful,
and they are enabled to receive finer vibrations.