K: No. I have an image of you, and I look through that image; that is distortion.
The image is my conditioning. It is still the same vessel with all the things in it,
and it is the same vessel which has nothing in it. The content of the vessel is the
vessel. When there is no content, the vessel has no form.
P: So that it can receive ‘what is’.
K: Perception is only possible when there is no image—no symbol, no idea, no
word, no form. Then perception is light. It is not that I see light; there is light.
Perception is light. Perception is action. And a mind which is full of images
cannot perceive; it sees through images and so is distorted. What we have said is
true; it is logically so. I have listened to this. In the factor of listening there is no
‘I’; in the factor of carrying it over, there is the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is time.
New Delhi
19 December, 1970