In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.
It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.
A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.
Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?