The Interval Between Thoughts: Now, I say it is definitely possible for the mind to be free from all conditioning , not that you should accept my authority . If you accept it on authority , you will never discover , it will be another substitution and that will have no significance. The understanding of the whole process of conditioning does not come to you through analysis or introspection , because the moment you have the analyzer , that very analyzer himself is part of the background and therefore his analysis is of no significance. How is it possible for the mind to be free? To be free , the mind must not only see and understand its pendulum- like swing between the past and the future but also be aware of the interval between thoughts . If you watch very carefully , you will see that though the response , the movement of thought , seems so swift , there are gaps , there are intervals between thoughts . Between two thoughts there is a period of silence that is not related to the thought process . If you observe you will see that that period of silence, that interval , is not of time and the discovery of that interval , the full experiencing of that interval , liberates you from conditioning or rather it does not liberate you but there is liberation from conditioning . It is only when the mind is not giving continuity to thought, when it is still with a stillness that is not induced , that is without any causation , it is only then that there can be freedom from the background . The Book of Life
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