Ojai, May 20th, 1984

So fear - of which you are all well aware - every human being on this earth knows fear: the calamity of that, the sadness of that, and the brutality of fear. That's what's happening: the brutality of ideologies - the Russian ideology and the democratic ideology. So, sirs, look into it carefully. So time, thought, are the root of fear. 'How am I', my friend asks, 'to stop this movement of time and thought?' The speaker says then, that's a wrong question. When you put a wrong question, there is no answer to a wrong question. Put the right question, which is: do you see the fact - the actuality of time and thought? Not as an idea, but a fact, that what you are, you will be. Then if you see the fact - not the fact through an idea. Do you understand? Our brains first capture the idea and then apply the idea to the fact. The word 'idea' in Greek and so on has not only other different meanings to it, but 'idea' means to observe. Not through observation come to a conclusion - just to observe. When you so deeply observe with passionate intensity which is to give your attention to time and thought then there is no fear at all.