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If one observes that one is conditioned and says, ‘One cannot uncondition the mind,’ the problem ends. If you start out with a formula that one will never be unconditioned, all inquiry ceases; one has already resisted and answered the problem, and there it ends. Then one can only further decorate the conditioning. But if one goes into this fairly deeply and becomes aware of the whole problem, what is one to do? How does one respond if this is a very, very serious challenge, not something one just brushes aside? If it is something vital and tremendously important in one’s life, what is one’s response? If you have discovered this conditioning, what is the manner of your observation? Have you observed it for yourself, or has somebody told you about it? This is really quite an important question to answer. If you have been told about it and you say, ‘Yes, I am conditioned,’ then you are responding to a suggestion; it is not real, only a verbal concept which you have accepted, with which you agree. That is quite different from the discovery of it for yourself, for then it is tremendously vital, and you have the passion to find the way out of it.

From Beyond Violence

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