One day when your mind has stopped functioning completely and you are just a flow — when | say mind has stopped functioning completely, | mean you don’t bring the past at all; mind is the past — if you don’t bring the past at all and you can read and listen, then your reading has become a meditation. Yes, reading can be helpful, but ordinarily it proves to be harmful, because the way you behave with books is harmful to you. You simply collect; you go on collecting dead facts. You become a junkyard — maybe an encyclopedia, but you lose the inner coherence, the inner music, the inner harmony. You become a crowd: so many voices, no unity. This is not getting integrated, this is disintegration.
So whatsoever you do — it is not only a question of reading, listening — whatsoever you do, it will depend on you.