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The brain has been conditioned through millennia...

The brain has been conditioned through millennia...

From Small Group Discussion 5, Bombay (Mumbai), 19 January 1977

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The brain has been conditioned through millennia to move from the centre to the circumference, and from the circumference to the centre, back and forth, extending it, limiting it and so on. Is there a way of ending that movement? It ends when there is a stopping, when the plug is pulled out. That is, the brain stops moving in that direction. If there is any causation for the stopping, you are back again in the circle. Can the brain which has been conditioned for millennia to act from the centre to the periphery and from the periphery to the centre, can that movement stop? The next question will be: is that possible? I think that is a wrong question. When you see the necessity of stopping, the brain itself sees the movement and says, ‘Stop.’ When it stops, it has already ended the movement. The moment there is the cessation of this movement, the ending of it, the thing is over. It is over; it is not a continuous stoppage. If you want it to be continuous, it is again a time movement.

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