Can one look at the question of what intelligence is not as a problem? Can you do it? If you do, that is the beginning of intelligence, which means the brain is already becoming free from its conditioning. But if you approach this as a question and then try to solve it, you are back in the old muddle. When one realises that the brain is conditioned to solve problems and therefore that you approach any question with a mind and brain that says, ‘I must solve it,’ you never meet the challenge afresh. To meet a problem afresh, any problem, is the beginning of intelligence.

From Where Can Peace Be Found?

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I think, he wanted to say, I see how to profit from this crisis, I have power not to become poor. I have the power not pay for this crisis, energy consumes will pay for this, not me.
He forgot to answer to the question
- Why every crisis increases the gap ( inecuality) between rich and poor?

BBC News - Energy bills rise 'inescapable' if oil prices stay high, says British Gas boss
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77mx5…

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Is it possible for a conditioned brain to break conditioning immediately? This may be a theoretical, non-actual question – you may say it is impossible, it is just a theory, just a wish, a desire to be free of this conflict. If you examine the matter rationally, logically, with intelligence, you see that time will not solve this conditioning. The first thing to realise is that there is no psychological tomorrow. If you see, actually, not verbally, but deeply in your heart, in your mind, in the very depths of your being, you will realise that time will not solve this problem. And that means you have already broken the pattern, you have begun to see cracks in the pattern we have accepted, of time as a means of unravelling or breaking up this programmed brain. Once you see for yourself, clearly, absolutely, irrevocably, that time is not a freeing factor, you already begin to see cracks in the enclosure of the brain.

From The Network of Thought

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Are you aware that you are conditioned? After two thousand years of steady propaganda – baptism, Mass, constant repetition, repetition, repetition, you have become a Catholic; or through other repetitions you are a Hindu or Muslim – it is the same process. Are you aware that your brain is conditioned? It is not difficult to be aware that you are conditioned. When you say, ‘I am British’ – or German, Russian, French – you are conditioned. The Indian may think, ‘I have the greatest culture,’ but that culture has gone; in India they are completely at a loss, in disorder. So, if you are aware of being conditioned, is that awareness an idea or an actuality? Are you actually aware of your reactions?

From Can Conflict End?

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For most of us, knowledge has become a dead weight, a heavy stone around our necks; it has become our habit, our conditioning. The mind that is serious must be free to observe; it must be free of this dead weight, which is knowledge, experience and tradition, which is accumulated memory, the past. To observe actually ‘what is’, to see the whole significance of ‘what is’, the mind must be fresh, clear, undivided.

From Beyond Violence

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Though we now have so much knowledge in so many fields, it has not stopped man’s brutality to man, even among those of the same group, nation or religion. Perhaps knowledge is blinding us to another factor that is the real solution to all this chaos and misery. For most people, knowledge is the accumulation of words or the strengthening of their prejudices and beliefs. Words and thoughts are the framework in which the self-concept exists. This concept contracts or expands through experience and knowledge, but the hard core of the self remains, and mere knowledge or learning can never dissolve it. Revolution is the voluntary dissolution of this core, of this concept, whereas action born of self-perpetuating knowledge can only lead to greater misery and destruction.

From Commentaries on Living Series 2

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We have no light within ourselves: we have the artificial light of others; the light of knowledge, the light that talent and capacity give. This kind of light fades and becomes a pain. The light of thought becomes its own shadow. But the light that never fades, the deep, inward brilliance which is not a thing of the marketplace, cannot be shown to another. You cannot seek it, you cannot cultivate it, you cannot possibly imagine it or speculate upon it, for it is not within the reach of the mind.

From The Only Revolution

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