Fictitious Death

Course XX - Teaching 16: Imaginative Monologues as Preparation for Meditation

First Monologue: Loneliness and Introspection. A war diary in modern society. “X” bombarded, so many dead persons, thousands of individual wounded. A coffee had in a hurry; unconscious frivolity in a town that moves and runs pressed by haste.

Course XXI - Teaching 16: Imaginative Monologues as Preparation for Meditation

First Monologue: Loneliness and Introspection. One is not absolute; one is not autonomous in the individual world. You cannot be autonomous even by living alone in an island lost in the ocean, because we are the logic result of a chain of lives and deaths that are beyond our will.