PeterCamenzind..Who the hell is he? ..

The problem of self-knowledge is the problem of looking and understanding for ourselves.

To understand we need to analyze for ourselves. Now wht is involved in analysis? It implies time, doesn’t it?. I need a great deal of time to analyse myself. I must very carefully examine every reaction, every incident, every thought and trace it to its source; all tht takes time. Meanwhile other incidents are going on, other happenings, other reactions, which i am incapable of immediately understanding. That is one point.

IT TAKES TIME.

When I look at myself, I am looking with the eyes of the past; so I condemn, judge, evaluate, “This is right”, “This is wrong”, good or bad according to my particular culture and tradition, according to the knowledge nd experience I gathered.Therefore it prevents observation of the living thing, which is the “me”. And that “me” may not be “me” at all, because I only know the “me” as the past.When the Muslim says that he is a Muslim, he is the past, conditioned by the culture in which he has been brought up; it is the same with the Catholic or the Communist.

So, When we talk abt living, we are talking about living in the past; and there is conflict between the past and the present, because I am conditioned. I cannot meet the living present unless I break down my conditioning.We live in the past, not only through our conditioning, through the culture in which we have lived, but also through every experience, incident and happening in our life.
Now, can i look at myself with eyes that have never been touched by time? Time involves analysis, time involves holding on to the past, time involves this whole process of dreaming, recollecting, gathering the past and holding it, all that.

Can I look at myself without the eyes of time?

And if I do that .. what is there to see except hills, the sky, the colours, the people around me.

Is there anything in me to be observed then?

Therefore, the mind is totally free….