strings: Now to see that requires intelligence, doesn't it? To see that the mind is made dull by compulsion is already the beginning of intelligence, isn't it?—to see that discipline is merely conformity to a pattern of action through fear. That is what is implied in disciplining ourselves: we are afraid of not getting what we want. What happens when you discipline the mind, when you discipline your being? It becomes very hard, doesn't it? ; unpliable, not quick, not adjustable. Don't you know people who have disciplined themselves —if there are such people? The result is obviously a process of decay. There is an inward conflict which is put away, hidden away; but it is there, burning.