Reactions prevent our attention from becoming enlightened

July 28, 1996

Then another thing is try to see that your mind doesn’t react. Some people have a habit, or I think most of them have, to react. You tell them something and they’ll put their own one tail with it, something. Never will they accept if somebody says something. If you are reacting what will go into your heads? What will go into your heart? What will go into your attention?

So the reaction itself is a sign of not proper development within yourself. This attention which is trying to go into all the areas of your mind and your body and everywhere, is not there. It cannot enter because as soon as it tries to enter, you shut it by reacting. You cannot see anything just for seeing’s sake. You must react. You say, “This is not good. That’s not good.” If I say, “It is 5 o’clock,” you’ll say, “No! It is 5 past, 2 minutes, 3 seconds!” This comes with terrible conditioning which has to go away. Not to react. Why should you react? Then the argument starts, then fights start, then wars come in. If you tell your mind, “Nothing doing, you are a myth and I am not going to react to anything!” 99.9 percent of the problems will be solved.