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"You see somebody whom you consider happy or as having realized, and he does certain things;
you, wanting that happiness, imitate him. This imitation is called discipline, isn't it?
We imitate in order to receive what another has; we copy in order to be happy, which you
think he is.
Is happiness found through discipline? By practicing a certain rule, by practicing a certain discipline, a mode of conduct, are you ever free?...Are you free by shaping your mind in a particular way which you call discipline? Obviously you are not. You are merely a repetitive machine, resisting according to a certain conclusion, according to a certain mode of conduct. Freedom cannot come through discipline. Freedom can only come into being with intelligence; and that intelligence is awakened, or you have that intelligence, the moment you see that any form of compulsion denies freedom, inwardly or outwardly." The First and Last Freedom, p.160-161 |
