the pattern of an idea ( 03 june 2006)

If you say, "How am I to save energy?" then you have created a pattern of anidea—how to save it—and then conduct your life according to that pattern; therefore,there begins again a contradiction. Whereas if you perceive for yourself where yourenergies are being wasted, you will see that the principal force causing the wasteis conflict—which is having a problem and never resolving it, living with a deadlymemory of something gone, living in tradition. One has to understand the nature ofthe dissipation of energy, and the understanding of the dissipation of energy is notaccording to Shankara, Buddha or some saint, but the actual observation of one'sdaily conflict in life. So the principal waste of energy is conflict—which doesn'tmean that you sit back and be lazy. Conflict will always exist as long as the ideais more important than the fact.

The Book of Life - June 3