Being Chased By Fear, The Mind Seeks Pleasure, Life Is Lost

**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 consciousness is merely a product of thoughts And when the mind is trapped in the consciousness, The mind is seeking pleasure When the mind is trapped in this consciousness, The mind has lost the connection with nature In thoughts, One is only seeking pleasure, And pleasure becomes tremendously important for such a life And this Western civilization is purely thoughts And pleasure becomes so important The life is conditioned to pleasure Which means that the life is purely conditioned to thoughts Such conditioning means that the mind can't really observe, Can't really understand the relationship between the problems and the thoughts So the life keeps generating fear And the mind keeps avoiding fear, Or the sufferings, Or the rest of it And the mind keeps seeking pleasure And this trend, This tendency becomes a common thing in this civilization The more we are into the pleasure, The more we are being chased by fear That's why life becomes more and more crazy I look at this age The Internet age Our life is surrounded by all kinds of entertainments TV, Films, Videos Because you are seeking pleasure That's why other people will try their best to feed you with pleasure Which becomes their pleasure At some time, Fear is chasing everyone One must see it clearly in one's life What is actually taking place One must think deeply, Reason, Negate To see what is actually taking place in life In doing so means that you are in solitude You are moving away from the mainstream You must stand alone to look To let go of all the inferences that keep blocking the eyes from seeing what it is in actuality And the very doing so is the transformation of human beings And in that very doing so, A totally different landscape will reveal to life But the speaker can't describe it It's beyond verse The images created by verse only destroy that And one must come upon it by really acting When one comes back to this state of humanity One belongs to nowhere Neither east or west One is a human being You must stand alone to look To let go of all the inferences that keep blocking the eyes from seeing what it is in actuality