We have had guidance galore. Every newspaper, every magazine, every preacher, every priest throughout the world is guiding us, telling us what to do, what not to do, think this, don’t think that, surrender yourself, don’t listen to him, he is a reactionary, listen to me... We are being guided, shaped, moulded all the time, consciously or unconsciously. Here, we are not guiding anybody; we are like two friends talking things over together. That is totally different. And guidance prevents understanding, in the deeper sense of the word, because if you are guiding me – do this, don’t do that – I can’t understand myself first; I am not looking at myself, I am listening to what you say. That means you become the authority, and I become your slave, either a psychological slave or some other kind of slave. These gurus’ places, their ashrams, become concentration camps. They tell you what to do, how to salute, all that tommyrot. I am not condemning; it is so. Why can’t we be simple, see things, look at and face things as they actually are, instead of this labyrinth and maze? Why do we have to go through all this?

From Facing a World in Crisis

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We have had guidance galore. Every newspaper, every magazine, every preacher, every priest throughout the world is guiding us, telling us what to do, what not to do, think this, don’t think that, surrender yourself, don’t listen to him, he is a reactionary, listen to me... We are being guided, shaped, moulded all the time, consciously or unconsciously. Here, we are not guiding anybody; we are like two friends talking things over together. That is totally different. And guidance prevents understanding, in the deeper sense of the word, because if you are guiding me – do this, don’t do that – I can’t understand myself first; I am not looking at myself, I am listening to what you say. That means you become the authority, and I become your slave, either a psychological slave or some other kind of slave. These gurus’ places, their ashrams, become concentration camps. They tell you what to do, how to salute, all that tommyrot. I am not condemning; it is so. Why can’t we be simple, see things, look at and face things as they actually are, instead of this labyrinth and maze? Why do we have to go through all this?

From Facing a World in Crisis

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Is it possible to change through the analytical process, that is, through introspection, through various forms of critical approach? Is it possible for the conditioned mind, through analysis, to change itself and discover a way to bring about a revolution in the psyche? We are asking if the mind can change through analysis. Analysis implies an observer, the analyser and the thing analysed. Please observe it in yourself, which is to share together. We are saying that where there is analysis, there is the observer – the analyser – and the thing to be analysed. In that there is division. Now, wherever there is division, there must be conflict, not only physically but also psychologically. When there is a division between the analyser and the thing analysed, there must be conflict. The analyser, in analysing the thing he has observed in himself, begins to correct it, dominate it, suppress it. But we are used to analysis. All our religious, sociological training and conditioning is to analyse step by step, to progress slowly. That is your upbringing, and that, I assure you, will never bring about a change. Analysis is the postponement of action. So, analysis, which is this dualistic examination by the analyser, will not bring about a deep, fundamental change.

From Inward Revolution

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Any progress within consciousness is self-improvement, and self-improvement is progress in sorrow, not the cessation of sorrow. If the mind is concerned with being free of all sorrow, then what is the mind to do? We suffer, don’t we? We suffer, not only from physical illness, disease, but also from loneliness, from the poverty of our being; we suffer because we are not loved. When we love somebody, and there is no love in return, there is sorrow. In every direction, to think is to be full of sorrow. Therefore, it seems better not to think, so we accept a belief and stagnate in that belief, which we call religion. Now, if the mind sees that there is no ending of sorrow through self-improvement, through progress, what is the mind to do? Can the mind go beyond this consciousness, beyond these various urges and contradictory desires? And is going beyond a matter of time? If it is a matter of time, you are back again in the other thing, which is progress. Within the framework of consciousness, any movement in any direction is self-improvement and therefore the continuance of sorrow. Sorrow may be controlled, disciplined, subjugated, rationalised, super-refined, but the potential quality of sorrow is still there; and to be free from sorrow, there must be freedom from this potentiality, from this seed of the ‘I’, the self, from the whole process of becoming.

From What Are You Doing With Your Life?

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Powerful economic groups, at both national and international levels, have shaped and maintained a trade-based system that prioritises profit over human and ecological wellbeing, thereby undermining attempts to move towards trade-free products and services. Advocates, researchers and campaigners who promote systems based on access, cooperation and sufficiency remain relatively powerless compared with these organised interests.

This suggests that attempting to solve social, health and environmental problems within a trade-based framework—by placing responsibility on individual consumers—is, so far, a largely insufficient response to the question: How can we make a difference?

It also indicates that deeper structural change is required: a transition away from trade-driven production and distribution towards systems organised around shared access, sustainability and collective need. Such a transformation would require confronting entrenched economic power, dismantling profit-centred incentives, and challenging the political structures that sustain the current trade-based society—one which drives many of the problems it claims to solve.

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