Daily Quotes, Saturday May 2 and Sunday May 3, 2009.

I got a bit behind yesterday, so the weekend quotes are here together.

Study group is this evening at 5:30pm.

Saturday's Quote:

If you are 'practicing' awareness, then you are being inattentive.

Can you practice awareness? If you are 'practicing' awareness, then you are being inattentive. So, be aware of inattention, you do not have to practice. You do not have to go to Burma, China, India, places which are romantic but not factual. I remember once travelling in a car in India with a group of people. I was sitting in the front with the driver. There were three behind who were talking about awareness, wanting to discuss with me what awareness is. The car was going very fast. A goat was in the road, and the driver did not pay much attention and ran over the poor animal. The gentlemen behind were discussing what is awareness, but they never knew what had happened! You laugh, but that is what we are all doing.

The Flight of the Eagle - 41

Sunday's Quote:

One must inquire.

The whole of Asia talks about meditation; it is one of their habits, as it is a habit to believe in God or something else. They sit for ten minutes a day in a quiet room and 'meditate,' concentrate, fix their mind on an image, an image created by themselves, or by somebody who has offered that image through propaganda. During those ten minutes they try to control the mind; the mind wants to go back and forth and they battle with it. They play that game everlastingly, and that is what they call meditation.

If one does not know anything about meditation, then one has to find out what it is - actually, not according to anybody, and that may lead one to nothing or it may lead one to everything. One must inquire, ask that question, without any expectation.

Beyond Violence - 103