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.Idea must oppose idea, idea must bedominated by idea.There is a gap then between action and idea.What we are trying to find out is whether it is possible for action tobe without idea.We see how idea separates people.As I havealready explained, knowledge and belief are essentially separatingqualities.Beliefs never bind people; they always separate people;when action is based on belief or an idea or an ideal, such an actionmust inevitably be isolated, fragmented.Is it possible to actwithout the process of thought, thought being a process of time, aprocess of calculation, a process of self-protection, a process ofbelief, denial, condemnation, justification.Surely, it must haveoccurred to you as it has to me, whether action is at all possiblewithout idea.I see as well as you see that when I have an idea and Ibase my action on that idea, it must create opposition; idea mustmeet idea and must inevitably create suppression, opposition.I donot know if I am making myself clear.To me this is really a veryimportant point.If you can understand that, not by the mind orsentimentally but intimately, I feel we shall have transcended allour difficulties.Our difficulties are of ideas, not of action.It is notwhat we should do, which is merely an idea; what is important isacting.Is action possible without the process of calculation, whichis the result of self-protection, of memory, of relationship,personal, individual, collective and so on? I say it is possible.Youcan experiment with it when you are here.If we can follow withoutany condemnation the whole process of desire, then you will seethat action is inevitable without idea.That no doubt requires anextraordinary alertness of mind; because our whole conditioning isto condemn, justify, to put into various categories - which are all aprocess of calculation, mentation.For most of us, idea and actionare two different things.There is idea first and action follows after.Our difficulty is to bridge action and idea.Let us look at itdifferently.We know every form of greed is destructive.Envy leads toambition - political, religious, collective or individual.Every formof ambition, if we are aware of it, is limited and destructive.We allknow that; we do not have to be told; we have not got to think agreat deal about it.Ambition produces envy.Ambition is the resultof the desire for power and position, for personal advancement,political and religious - politically in the name of an idea of thefuture or of the present, and spiritually in the name of somethingequally good or equally bad.We have known such ambitions - tobe somebody, to be dominating people in the name of peace, in thename of Master, in the name of God and Heaven knows what else.Where there is ambition, there must be exploitation, man againstman, nation against nation; and the very people who are shoutingpeace, are the very ones who are doing things which are highlydestructive, perhaps for themselves and for their country or fortheir idea.Such people do not bring peace.They only verbalizepeace but they have not got peace in their hearts.Such peopleobviously cannot bring to the world peace or happiness; they mustonly bring contention, war.Ambition is the result of greed, envy, desire for power.It is allbased on an idea.Is it not? Idea is nothing but reaction.It is so,neurologically, psychologically or physically.Ambition is an ideato be something politically, religiously; `I want to become a greatperson and want to work for the future'.What does it reflect? Wealso know political ambition in the name of the country and so on.All this is based on an idea.It is an idea, a concept, a formulationof what I shall be or my party shall be.Having established the idea,then I pursue that idea in action.First of all, morally, an ambitiousperson is immoral.He is a source of contention; and yet we allencourage ambition.Otherwise, what can we do? There may be noachievement [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]