Action

you would not want your son to be concerned only with technological studies; you would not help your son only to pass some stupid, little examination and get a job; but you would educate him to understand the whole process of living—not just one part, a segment, a fragment of this vast life. If you really loved your son, there would be no war; you would see to it. That means you would have no nationality, no separative religions, no castes—all that nonsense would go

What is involved in it when you say, "I love my wife, my husband, my children"? Essentially it is pleasure and security

You are listening to the total sound—not of a crow, but to the total sound

according to that tradition, in that framework, you live and act; and when you do that, there is bound to be conflict

All action is relationship. There is no isolated action.

If you knew how to listen, then you would solve the problem

to learn about anything, two states are essential: a quiet mind and attention. That is the only way you listen to another—it does not matter if it is to your wife, to your children, to your boss, to the crows, or to the call of a bird. There must be quietness, there must be attention; and in that state you are listening. That means you are already active; you are no longer sluggish; you have already broken away from this habit of half-listening, half-agreeing, half-being serious

to learn about anything, two states are essential: a quiet mind and attention

not accepting, not saying, "I hope he will come to my point of view which is right."

This chaos is due to this laziness because you have ceased to question, ceased to doubt—because you accept