| I do not know if you have ever watched your children. To learn about your children, you must watch them, watch them when they are upset, when they are playing, when they are eating, when they are sleeping, when they are mischievous. If you condemn, you cannot learn about them. You can only learn about them when there is no condemnatory or comparative attitude. Similarly, if you are interested to find out the whole significance of a dream, and if it is possible to stop dreaming at all, you must understand the problem of occupation, and also the problem of a dull, weary, routine-minded, bored mind, a mind that goes to the office day after day, month after month – the appalling boredom of it, the sheer waste of energy. How can such a mind be sensitive? This doesn’t mean you must leave your office – if you do, you know what will happen. But going to the office, coming home, to be watchful, to see the trees, to see the people, to see the birds, to be aware of everything as you are going along. Then out of that watchfulness, the mind loses its boredom, its routine, its dullness. From Public Discussion 2, New Delhi, 9 February 1962 Read more | 