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To awaken this energy, the mind must have no resistance
Now, how do we awaken in ourselves an energy that has its own momentum, that is
its own cause and effect, an energy that has no resistance and does not
deteriorate? How does one come by it? The organized religions have advocated
various methods, and by practicing a particular method one is supposed to get
this energy. But methods do not give this energy. The practice of a method
implies conformity, resistance, denial, acceptance, adjustment, so that whatever
energy one has is merely wearing itself out. If you see the truth of this, you
will never practice any method. That is one thing. Secondly, if energy has a
motive, an end towards which it is going, that energy is self-destructive. And
for most of us, energy does have a motive, does it not? We are moved by a desire
to achieve, to become this or that, and therefore our energy defeats itself.
Thirdly, energy is made feeble, petty, when it is conforming to the past - and
this is perhaps our greatest difficulty. The past is no
t only the many yesterdays but also every minute that is being accumulated, the
memory of the thing that was over a second before. This accumulation in the mind
is also destructive of energy.
So, to awaken this energy, the mind must have no resistance, no motive, no end
in view, and it must not be caught in time as yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Then energy is constantly renewing itself and therefore not degenerating. Such a
mind is not committed, it is completely free, and it is only such a mind that
can find the unnameable, that extraordinary something which is beyond words. The
mind must free itself from the known to enter into the unknown.
Collected Works, Vol. XIII - 337
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