If we become aware of this indolence, this deep-rooted laziness, and try to quicken the mind and the heart, the intensity of it again becomes a conflict, which is also a waste of energy. This is an age-long problem because most human beings are indolent they would rather accept, obey, and follow. To conserve energy we must be aware of ourselves, how we dissipate energy. It is a waste of energy when we are trying to conform to a pattern. We need a great deal of energy to bring about a change within ourselves, but we waste our energy through conflict, through resistance, through conformity, through acceptance, through obedience. You and I must find the energy, the impetus, the vitality to bring about this radical transformation of the mind, and that is not possible if we do not have enough energy. To bring about a good society, human beings have to change. And it is only such a mind that is so completely empty that is in a state of meditation. And it is only such a mind that is passionate it is only such a mind that can live with beauty and not get used to beauty – the beauty of a tree, the beauty of a face, the beauty of an eye, of a smile, of the ugly, dirty road, the squalor, the poverty, it is only the passionate mind that can live with it and not get distorted. Therefore, it is only the mind that is completely empty that is in a state of inaction. Therefore, the mind must empty itself – not because it wants that, because when you want that, you have a motive, and the moment you have a motive, you have lost your energy. It may come to you but you cannot go to it because your minds are too shallow, petty, empty, full of ambition, fears, ugliness, and distortion. That which is beyond time you cannot search out. You cannot find you cannot find the everlasting.

That is the most important of all – there must be no seeking. That emptiness comes as a sunset comes of an evening, full of beauty, enchantment, and richness that comes as naturally as the blossoming of a flower when there is no fear, when there are no escapes, when there is no boredom, and when there is no seeking. That emptiness of the mind cannot be produced: the mind cannot be made empty, cannot be put together to be empty.

Quotes on conflict