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mind to non-violence. He wants to enquire as a human being, how to transcend this violence, how to go beyond it. The secret lies in learning the art of observation of one's own mind. Any time of day or night, he can find time to relax, he withdraws from the field of movement. Every day for some time he sits down quietly in the solitude of his ISNESS retiring from the field of mentation. When the state of observation is sustained, the observation becomes a normal state of consciousness, the observation becomes spontaneous. The state of observation implies non-reactive attentiveness. The thought goes to abeyance and intelligence self-expresses itself. So from activity to non-action, from speech to verbal silence, from movement to non-motion, we become voluntarily silent.
The self-centered activity, the I-consciousness, the ego, is the violence. When thought goes to abeyance, the mind becomes non-violent, it is the activisation of intelligence. The journey from violence to non-violence is the capacity of mind to make quantum jump from ego-centredness to self-transcendence of ego. It is the non-violence of the mind which makes our life orderly and harmonious. The activisation of intelligence bestows on us creativity in cvery action.
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Individual and Society: Society exists for the individual. The individul is dynamic. The society is static, it has no life-giving quality. Any action, any refarm in the external field, without, the inner revolution, becomes equally static, so outer action become srepetitive, habitual. It is only the inward transformation that can transform the society. The action of relationship between you and another, between you and me, is society. The function of society is not to make him conform to any pattern but to give him the feel, the urge of freedom.
The violence in the mind is mechanistic and repetitive. A violent mind cannot transform the society. A nonviolent mind transforms the society. For any revolution in society, the human mind must first move from violence to non-violence. "Non-violence of the weak" is an action
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