An Easy Life Has Nothing To Do With Peace And Joy

**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, no agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

Transcript

To live a life,

Peacefully,

With care,

Is to live a life,

Moment by moment.

When the me,

When the self,

When all kinds of self-deception is totally absent,

Or else the life becomes the narrative again around the me.

And time is back,

With its sorrow.

Every time the mind thinks about time,

The sorrow pops up.

But letting go of all these thought products,

Life can be only possible to flower at this moment.

And only a life that is really fully at this moment is free of all kinds of sorrow.

Of course,

To live such a life requires all those works.

It won't be easy compared to the easy life most people are living.

But the real peace and joy never comes easily.

An uneasy life never really brings about peace and calm and joy.

Being easy is only an idea for pleasure.

And again,

That pleasure is still part of the river of this consciousness.

And the real joy,

The real peace,

Is never in that river.

And this can be only come upon when the mind lives now.