Do you sometimes feel stressed out?
Do you feel tired,
Stressed out,
Exhausted?
Does it happen?
I'm not surprised because you put so much effort into building all this suffering.
You work so hard to make you suffer that you're exhausted.
This is why people are stressed out,
Why they're tired.
It's not an easy job to suffer as much as we suffer,
Isn't it?
We waste a tremendous amount of energy in generating suffering,
In building suffering.
A dukkha is a dynamic concept.
It's not just something stable which is just there.
That is the idea of an utter.
A dukkha is a conditioned process.
So unless we are constantly feeding the fire,
It's not burning.
Unless we are building that dungeon in which we are tortured,
There would be no suffering,
There would be no dungeon.
So a lot of the reason that we are sometimes feeling tired,
Stressed out,
Is simply that so much effort goes into creating suffering.
And the important thing is to simply see that,
To notice that.
It is so easy to train any animal.
You can train even rats,
Mice.
I think they can even condition worms and amoeba by reward and punishment.
It's a natural tendency for the mind.
Any being tries to go away from suffering and tries to attain happiness.
So if you can actually notice,
If you can observe and clearly see how we generate our pain and suffering on a deeper level,
Then we are conditioning ourselves automatically for letting go of that.
The moment that process is seen,
The mind starts letting go quite naturally,
Automatically.
The moment it recognizes,
I do this,
I push button A and it hurts,
You tend to stop pushing button A.
The problem is that we never really notice that because we go for the superficial causes which are external.
We distract ourselves by blaming anything outside,
By blaming other people,
By blaming external conditions,
The weather,
The politicians.
If I have to live with such a bad person,
If I have to work with such kind of person,
How can I ever be happy?
This wrong track,
We are on a completely wrong track,
Looking outside when the real problem is inside,
That stops us from seeing the true process,
How we,
Ourselves,
Or rather how our defilements,
Our craving,
Dhanha,
Attachment,
Aversion,
Liking,
How these qualities in our heart continuously generate,
Produce,
Dokkha.
It's amazing how much work we are putting into that.
Sometimes people complain they have to work too much.
Oh,
I have just too much work on my job and then when I come back looking after the house and cooking and children and just too much.
There's never too much every single waking hour,
Their hard working,
Diligently working to make themselves suffer by putting in these conditions.
They have so much energy for that,
They're amazing.
So once we see that,
The natural response is letting go.
The mind will explicate itself on that suffering,
Will abandon it,
Will let it go.
It will drop it,
It will pull it out,
Uproot it.
