Asking How To End Confusion Is Part Of Confusion

**Note: 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.

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

Some people may ask,

How can I end the confusion of life?

How can I get a clear mind about everything?

When people ask how to,

How to have this,

How to get rid of that,

This asking how to is part of the confusion,

Isn't it?

Asking how to implies asking for a method,

For a path,

So we can follow to get something down.

But for the truth of mind,

For the truth of life,

It is pathless.

There's no path to the truth.

It doesn't mean it is hopeless.

It means that one has to observe,

Listen attentively to see it clearly in your life.

The very listening,

The very seeing is the process of ending the confusion of life.

It's also the process of having a quiet mind,

A peaceful mind.

It is one process.

But if you ask how,

You begin to rely on other people to give you answer.

Then the other people becomes the authority.

As long as there is a psychological authority,

The mind stops learning.