in aloneness there is no fear ( 07 dec 06 thu)

It is only when the mind is capable of shedding all influences, all interferences,of being completely alone…there is creativeness.In the world, more and more technique is being developed - the technique of how toinfluence people through propaganda, through compulsion, through imitation…There areinnumerable books written on how to do a thing, how to think efficiently, how tobuild a house, how to put machinery together; so gradually we are losing initiative,the initiative to think out something original for ourselves. In our education, inour relationship with government, through various means, we are being influenced toconform, to imitate.

And when we allow one influence to persuade us to a particularattitude or action, naturally we create resistance to other influences. In that veryprocess of creating a resistance to another influence, are we not succumbing to itnegatively?Should not the mind always be in revolt so as to understand the influences that arealways impinging, interfering, controlling, shaping? Is it not one of the factors ofthe mediocre mind that it is always fearful and, being in a state of confusion, itwants order, it wants consistency, it wants a form, a shape by which it can beguided and controlled.

And yet these forms, these various influences createcontradictions in the individual, create confusion in the individual. …Any choicebetween influences is surely still a state of mediocrity.…Must not the mind have the capacity to fathom - not to imitate, not to be shaped -and to be without fear? Should not such a mind be alone and therefore creative? Thatcreativeness is not yours or mine, it is anonymous.