Krishnamurti says to people, "Now look, there is nothing you can do to be liberated, because
 all your efforts in the direction of liberation are phony.
 They are based on your desire to boost and continue your ego, and that will never lead
 to liberation.
 All you can do," he says, "is to be aware of yourself as you are, without judgment.
 See what is.
 But then, if you can do that, you have no further problem.
 But if you try to do it, you're in the same mess all over again."
 Gurdjieff played the same game in a different way.
 He said, "The most important thing is self-remembering.
 Always at every moment be aware of what you're doing.
 Watch yourself constantly, and never, never be absent-minded."
 So all day, when you know you pick up the piece of paper, you realize, "I'm picking
 up this piece of paper, and I'm opening it inside."
 And I know I'm doing it this way, so I'm not asleep.
 Many people, you know, pick up the piece of paper.
 In this way, we are really picking up the piece of paper.
 So all these people are doing this, you know, watching all the time.
 Now, where do they land up?
 I've told this story millions of times, really.
 Excuse me, but it's very important.
 When they teach you in Japanese Zen how to use a sword, the first thing that the teacher
 says to the student is, "Now, if you're going to be a good soldier, you've got to
 be alert constantly, because you never know where the attack's going to come from."
 Now, you know what happens to you when you try to be on the alert.
 You think about being alert, and then you're a hopeless prey to the enemy, because you're
 not alert.
 You're thinking about being alert.
 You must be simply awake and relaxed.
 And then all your nerve ends are working, and wherever the attack comes from, you're
 ready.
 They liken this to a barrel of water.
 The water is just sitting there in the barrel, but the minute you make a hole in the barrel,
 the water immediately is ready to come out of that hole.
 So in the same way, the mind, when it is in the proper state, is ready to respond in any
 direction from which the attack may come.
 So this man is no longer alert in the sense of taut and anxious.
 See?
 He's just sitting there, like a cat sits there.
 And the minute anything happens, it's right there, because it didn't have to overcome
 any set in a direction opposite to that from which the attack comes.
 If you are set for the attack to come from there, and it comes from here, you have to
 pull back from there and go there, but that's too late.
 So you sit in the middle, and you don't expect the attack from any particular direction.
 So in the same way, all this applies to yoga.
 You can be watchful, you can be concentrated, you can be alert, but all that will ever teach
 you is what not to do, how not to use the mind, because it'll get you into deeper and
 deeper and deeper binds.
 You have to let it happen, just like you have to let yourself go to sleep.
 You can't try to go to sleep.
 You have to let yourself digest your food.
 You can't try to digest it.
 And so in the same way, you have to let yourself wake up, become liberated.
 And when you find out, you see, that there isn't any way of forcing it, that for most