Can the mind observe without comparison?

1. Living with a sustained seriousness - 21February 1970 Duration: 91 minutes - What does it mean to be serious? - Becoming - Why do I compare myself with you or with somebody else? - Do I look at people through images? 2. Can the brain operate without recourse to the past?- 22February 1970 Duration: 92 minutes - Is there self-progress? - Conflict - Security - Any form of division within oneself is a source of conflict. - Can the brain be quiet? 3. What makes one control? - 14March 1970 Duration: 97 minutes - Violence - Why do you control? - Security means to be in a state in which there is no choice at all. - The mind has become sensitive because it has observed, not because it has experienced. - Either you see the fact with the past or you see the fact as it is now. - The word is of the past. 4. Being serious without belief - 15March 1970 Duration: 77 minutes - Can the intellect, a fragment, ever be serious? Serious in the sense of a sustained observation without any distortion. - Control - What is living? - How does it happen that one can be completely harmonious? - What does awareness mean? 5. Attention leads to learning - 21March 1970 Duration: 93 minutes - Inattention and attention. - Observing without the word. - What is the function of sleep? - Is love a matter of culture, a thing of pleasure and therefore dependency? 6. Fear in consciousness - 22March 1970 Duration: 89 minutes - How does it happen that the deep layers hidden in consciousness can be exposed? - Comparison between what is with what has been and what will be, is the process of fear. - Can the mind observe without comparison? 7. What is order?- 28March 1970 Duration: 81 minutes - Order and disorder. - Why does the mind accumulate? - How do you receive something that is not of the mind? 8. How is one to be entirely free of fear?- 29March 1970 Duration: 90 minutes - Fear - All the escaping and the strengthening of fear comes because we are inattentive. - What is sleep?