There is learning of the movement of the self only when there is a conflict. When you are happy, you are not watching anything; you are just happy. It is only in unhappiness that you become aware of yourself. Pain, distress, guilt, agony, tears, ambition, fear, all that, are an indication of self-consciousness. If you discover that, you have solved a great deal. Self-consciousness is the source of all conflict. To end conflict, can the mind be free from this mechanism of self-centred images? Me first and my ambition, my knowledge, my way of thinking, my furniture, my house, the me that is afraid of my loneliness, the me that says, ‘I am not loved, I must be loved,’ ‘I must fulfil’ – all that is self-consciousness, and all that breeds fear and conflict. So realising that, the mind doesn’t enter into that field at all.