Hello.
Well,
I have a sort of suggestion,
and that is this,
that before we decide either to save the planet or to destroy it,
we pause for a moment of silence.
I don't mean that kind of grim silence,
which one observes when somebody says,
such and such a famous person has just died,
and
we'll observe a moment of silence in his honor,
and everybody frowns and thinks very serious
thoughts.
That's not silence at all.
I mean real silence,
in which we stop thinking.
And experience reality as reality is.
Because after all,
if I talk all the time,
I can't
hear what anyone else has to say.
And if I think all the time,
and by that I mean specifically,
talking to yourself sub-vocally inside your skull.
If I think all the time, I have nothing
to think about except thoughts.
And so I'm never in touch with the real world.
Now what
is the real world?
Some people have the theory that the real world
is material, or physical,
let's say it's made of kind of a stuff.
Other people have the theory that the real world
is spiritual or mental.
But I want you to point out that both those theories of the
world are concepts,
are words.