Relationship That Sails

We have problems in relationship between man and woman, or between man and man, woman and woman. Look at it very closely, observe it, not try to change it, try to direct it, say, it must not be this way, or it must be that way, or help me to get over it, but just to observe. You can’t change the line of that mountain, or the flight of the bird, or the flow of the water, swift, you just observe it, and see the beauty of it. But if you observe and say, that is not so beautiful as the mountain I saw yesterday, you are not observing, you are merely comparing. So, let’s observe very closely this question of relationship. Relationship is life. One cannot exist without relationship. So let’s look very closely: observe, not learn. Then you discover for yourself the beauty of relationship. So, if you observe, are we related to anybody at all? Or we are related to another through thought, through the image that thought has built about your husband and your wife, the image that you have about her or him. Obviously. So, our relationship is between the image you have about her and she has about you. And each one carries this image, and each one goes in his own direction: ambition, greed, envy, competition, seeking power, position. You know what is happening in relationship, each one moving in opposite directions, or perhaps parallel, and never meeting. Because this is the modern civilisation, this is what you are offering to the world. And, so, there is constant struggle, conflict, divorce, changing of so-called mates. You know what is happening

Source: Economic Times, 28/09/2018