This is probably K’s first mention of what was to him ‘real’ meditation – ‘making unexpected and amazing discoveries within oneself’ without any direction or purpose.

Choice implies direction, an action of the will. K, as he explained it, was talking about awareness from moment to moment of all that was taking place inside oneself without any effort to change or direct it. It was a matter of pure observation, of looking, which would lead to self-transformation without effort.

Fear arises from the desire for security. ‘If there is complete psychological security there is no fear’, but there can never be psychological security ‘if one is wanting, desiring, pursuing, becoming

The Ending of Time, one of K’s most important books since it awakened the interest of a new public.

The only way to avoid sorrow is to be without any resistance, to be without any movement away from sorrow, outwardly or inwardly, to remain totally with sorrow without wanting to go beyond it.’

At Ojai, in April, four hour-long discussions took place on ‘The Nature of the Mind’ between K, David Bohm, Dr John Hidley, a psychiatrist in private practice in Ojai, and Rupert Sheldrake, who was at that time a consultant to the International Crops Institute in Hyderabad. These discussions, video taped in colour, had been sponsored by the Robert

At the Feet of the Master by Alcyone,

Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence.

It’s really a question of life itself. Either you live in the past, or you live totally differently: that is the whole point.