A Life That Is Not Improvised Is Full Of Control & Stress

**Note: Truth does not always sound pleasant. If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, one has to be aware of the emotions or reactions that can block one from listenING ATTENTIVELY and with HUMILITY. This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, not agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already part of true meditation.

Transcript

This moment,

Let's set aside everything else To think together,

To look together,

To inquire together,

To understand together This talk is improvised,

So is life The mind is observing,

Is learning,

Is inquiring at each moment And such a life is improvised But looking around this world,

Most people's life is full of control All kinds of control,

In almost every corner of this living The mind is always grasping something,

Grabbing something,

Holding onto something And these human activities are full of all kinds of control The neuron cells are always in a tense state,

There's tension always And such a life is full of stress,

Disturbance The mind is trapped in the illusion of control Want to achieve something,

To be something,

To have something This mental control brings about tremendous issues And such a life can't be improvised Because there's so many motivations,

Ambitions,

Incentives behind the living And this living is being guided by thoughts,

Ideas,

Via an image which is called what should be or what should not be Such a life is always competing,

Achieving,

Inquiring The very doing so implies that there's a lot of neural activities The mind is stressed