As long as events are dependent upon, caused by, or are led to by other events, there will be stories. The linking up of certain events to promote a designed idea are the stories that precede history.
Negative approaches to events, ideas and history become positive approaches in disguise. If it is a negative approach, it has to negate itself somewhere along the line. It’s claimed that anything this structure touches must turn into a positive thing, because it is a product of positive thinking. So anything you listen to is turned into a method, a system – you want to get something through this. For example, somebody says there is a mind and you must un-condition your mind. How are you going to un-condition your mind? You are conditioning your mind through this lingo – that is all that it is necessary for you to see. Don’t blame the other chap. So then you leave this chap alone: you never establish any relationship with this man. The moment you use this to get whatever you want to get, or to arrive at some kind of a destination, you are tricking yourself into the same old game. When this is seen, the seeing is the end – finished, you see. But we haven’t understood a thing; we go there again and again. And we have only clarified our thoughts, and through this so-called clarification we have given strength to the continuity of thought – this is all that has happened. So, it is the hope that keeps people going. They have gotten into habits, routines: instead of going to the spiritual, they go to the philosophical or the ideological – that’s all they are doing. If you see the absurdity of what you are doing, then there is a possibility of your saying to yourself “What the hell am I doing? What am I doing? How am I different? Why am I listening to this?”