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truth is hidden like a white screen in a movie house and you have projected your desires and your dreams on top of it and have forgotten completely what reality is.
Zen says stop the projector, put it off, and you will be able to know what is. And to know that which is, is freedom; to know that which is, is to be liberated; to know that which is, is to be enlightened.
So mind is the barrier. And mind is a continuous repetition. Because you have never watched it, you are not aware of it. Nothing new ever happens in the mind; it is always the rotten old. Nothing new can ever happen in the mind because it is a mechanism. The mechanism can only go on playing the same thing again and again -- it is like a gramophone record.
Look at it and by and by you will be able to see the mechanicalness of it. Gurdjieff used to say that if a man realises that he is a mechanism then there is a possibility. If a man realises that he is only a machine, then there is a possibility to go beyond the machine. Then a man can become conscious.
I was reading a very beautiful anecdote. There is no story in it, just an extract from a petty-cash ledger.
Nov. 1 Advertisement for secretary .50
Nov. 2 Flowers for secretary's desk .80
Nov. 8 Week's salary for secretary L30.00
Nov. 9 Perfume for secretary L6.00
Nov. 11 Sweets for wife .10
Nov. 13 Lunch for secretary and self L9.45
Nov. 15 Weeks salary for secretary L35.00
Nov. 17 Bingo for wife and self L1.00
Nov. 18 Theatre for secretary and self L6.00
Nov. 19 Sweets for wife .10
Nov. 20 Doreen's salary L40.00
Nov. 21 Theatre and dinner for D and self L20.00
Dec. 2 Harley Street Clinic L150.00
Dec. 3 Fur coat for wife L700.00
Dec. 4 Advertisement for male secretary .50
Just take note. Make a small diary of your mind and you will see circles and circles moving. To make a diary is good, but make it for yourself, not for somebody else to
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