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dead. Your whole vision changes about it. The second thing the East says is: the
problem is there because you are identified with it. It has nothing to do with the
past, nothing to do with its history. You are identified with it -that is the real thing.
And that is the key to solve all problems.
For example: you are an angry person. If you go to the psycho-analyst, he will say,
"Go into the past.... How did this anger arise? In what situations did it become
more and more conditioned and imprinted on your mind? We will have to wash out
all those imprints; we will have to wipe them off. We will have to clean your past
completely."
If you go to an Eastern mystic, he will say, "You think that you are anger, you feel
identified with the anger - that is where things are going wrong. Next time anger
happens, you just be a watcher, you just be a witness. You don't get identified with
the anger. Don't say, 'I am anger.' Don't say, 'I am angry.' Just see it happening as
if it is happening on a TV screen. Look at yourself as if you are looking at
somebody else."
You are pure consciousness. When the cloud of anger comes around you, just
watch it, and remain alert so that you don't get identified. The whole thing is how
not to become identified with the problem. Once you have learned it...and then
there is no question of 'so many problems'...because the key, the same key, will
open all the locks. It is so with anger, it is so with greed, it is so with sex; it is so
with everything else that the mind is capable of.
The East says: Just remain unidentified. Remember - that's what Gurdjieff means
when he says 'self-remembering'. Remember that you are a witness! Be mindful! -
that's what Buddha says. Be alert that a cloud is passing by! Maybe the cloud
comes from the past, but that is meaningless. It must have a certain past, it cannot
come just out of the blue; it must be coming from a certain sequence of events - but
that is irrelevant. Why be bothered about it? Right now, this very moment, you can
become detached from it, you can cut yourself away from it. The bridge can be
broken right now - and it can be broken only in the now.
Going into the past won't help. Thirty years before, the anger arose and you got
identified with it that day. Now you cannot get unidentified from that past, it is no
longer there. But you can get unidentified this moment, this very moment. And then
the whole series of angers of your past is no more part of you.
The question is relevant. Jayananda has asked: "You spoke in several recent
discourses on the no-problem, the nonexistence of our problems. Having been
brought up in a repressive Catholic family...." You can right now become a non-
Catholic. Now, I say! You will not have to go back and undo whatsoever your
parents and your society and the priest and the church have done. That will be a
sheer wastage of precious present time. In the first place it has destroyed many
years; now again it will be destroying your present moments. You can simply drop
out of it, just as a snake slips out of the old skin.
"Having been brought up in a repressive Catholic family, and having spent twenty-
one years in an equally crazy educational system - are you saying that all the coats
of armor, all the conditionings and all the repressions do not exist...?" No, they
exist. But they exist either in the body or in the brain; they don't exist in vour
consciousness, because the consciousness cannot be conditioned. Consciousness
remains free! Freedom is its innermost quality, freedom is its nature. In fact even
asking it, you are showing that freedom.
When you say, "twenty-one years in a crazy educational system," when you say,
"having been brought up in a repressive Catholic family," in this moment you are
not identified. You can look: so many years of Catholic repression, so many years
of a certain education. In this moment, when you are looking at it, this
consciousness is no longer Catholic - otherwise who will be aware? If you had
really become Catholic, then who would be aware? Then there would be no
possibility of becoming aware.
If you can say, "twenty-one years in an equally crazy educational system," one
thing is certain: you are not yet crazy. The system has failed, it didn't work.
Jayananda, you are not crazy, hence you can see the whole system as crazy. A
madman cannot see that he is mad, only a sane person can see that this is madness.
To see madness as madness, sanity is needed. Those twenty-one years of crazy
system have failed, all that repressive conditioning has failed. It cannot really
succeed. It succeeds only in the proportion that you get identified with it. Any
moment you can stand aloof.... It is there - I am not saying it is not there - but it is
no longer part of your consciousness.
This is the beauty of consciousness: consciousness can slip out of anything; there is
no barrier to it, no boundary to it. Just a moment before you were an Englishman.
Understanding the nonsense of nationalism a second later, you are no longer an
Englishman.
I am not saying that your white skin will change, it will remain white; but you are
no longer identified with the whiteness, you are no longer against the black. You see
the stupidity of it. I am not saying that just by seeing that you are no longer an
Englishman, you will forget the English language, no. It will still be there in your
memory, but your consciousness has slipped out, your consciousness is standing on
a hillock looking at the valley. Now the Englishman is dead in the valley and you
are standing on the hills, far away, unattached, untouched.
The whole Eastern methodology can be reduced to one word:
witnessing. And the whole Western methodology can be reduced to one thing:
analyzing. Analyzing, you go round and round. Witnessing, you simply get out of
the circle.
Analysis is a vicious circle. If you really go into analysis, you will be simply puzzled
- how is it possible? If, for example, you try to go into the past, where will you end?
Where exactly? If you go into the past, where did your sexuality start? When you
were fourteen years of age? But then it came out of the blue? It must have been
getting ready in the body. So when? When you were born? But then, when you
were in the mother's womb, wasn't it getting ready? Then when? The moment you
were conceived? But before that half of your sexuality was maturing in your
mother's egg and half of the sexuality was maturing in your father's sperm. Now go
on.... Where will you end? - you will have to go to Adam and Eve. And even then it
does not end: you will have to go to Father God himself. Why in the first place did
he create Adam?...
Analysis will always remain half, so analysis never helps anybody really, it cannot
help. It makes you a little more adjusted to your reality, that's all. It is a sort of
adjustment, it helps you to attain a little bit of understanding about your problems,
their genesis, how they have arisen. And that little intellectual understanding helps
you to adjust to the society better, but you remain the same person. There is no
transformation through it, there is no radical change through it.
Witnessing is a revolution. It is a radical change - from the very roots! It brings a
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