P: I want to put aside everything and tackle it in a new way. I see that the most
important element in me is the ‘I’. Now what is the ‘I’? What is its nature? One
investigates that, and in the very process of observation there is clarity.
K: Full stop.
P: Clarity being non-eternal—
K: But it can be picked up again.
P: I say, maybe.
K: Because I have an idea that perception is whole.
P: Can the question whether clarity is eternal legitimately arise in this state?
K: It does not arise in the state of perception. It only arises or exists when I ask:
Is this process everlasting?
P: And what would you say?
K: You are being asked. Answer. You have to answer this question. At the
moment of perception, the question does not arise. The next moment, I do not
perceive so clearly.
P: If I am alert to see that I am not perceiving so clearly, I will investigate that.
K: So what am I doing? There is perception. That is all.
P: The key to the doorway is in that question.
K: Let us be simple about this. There is perception. In that perception there is no
question of duration. There is only perception. The next minute I do not see
clearly, there is no clear perception; it is muddled. Then there is the investigation
of pollution, and so clarity. Muddle and again perception, covering and
uncovering—this goes on. This is going on. Right?
F: Is it a movement of time?
P: Something very interesting takes place. The very nature of this awareness is
that it operates on the other.
K: What do you mean by the ‘other’?
P: Inattention.