Hi everyone,
I'm putting the quote for tomorrow (Saturday) up this evening as I'm going out early tomorrow.
The prediction for tomorrow is very warm!
RobertWhen we regard relationship from a fixed point there must be conflict.
To understand conflict, we must understand relationship, and the understanding of relationship does not depend on memory, on habit, on what has been or what should be. It depends on choiceless awareness from moment to moment, and if we go into it deeply, we shall see that in that awareness there is no accumulative process at all. The moment there is accumulation, there is a point from which to examine, and that point is conditioned; and hence, when we regard relationship from a fixed point, there must be pain, there must be conflict.
Collected Works, Vol. VI - 222
I was relating this quote to the issue of questioning as I was preparing the post. How important it is keep questioning, the whole dialogue process rests on this, as questions deconstruct answers, which are fixed points in the way that K is referring to here.
ReplyDeleteAnswers of course represent choices, and you can feel the past accumulating as soon as you give an answer. The very fixedness of it vibrates inside you, you can feel the contraction of your mind concentrating on the choice you've made in your answer, and how the mind itself must narrow to give answer.
As you look to become more sensitive to living without conflict, ask questions again and again in whatever situation you are in, and see if you feel your mind expanding and becoming pliable.
You might notice that dialogue is all about a flow of questions in which we observe with great attention our impulse to give answers. A true friend will question everything you say, just a true pilgrim will question everything he or she says.
See if you notice new points of awareness appearing constantly in relationship and therefore relationship as a stream of new points.
Just some thoughts.