Clarity Comes Only When The Self Ends

**Note: If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, be aware of the emotions or reactions. A life full of the self-concern is a life full of confusion. 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

In this culture,

People are over-consent about the self.

Self has become so important.

For most people,

The pleasure becomes the only meaning of life.

The self creates full pleasure while the self is creating the havoc on each of us.

Such over-consent about the self,

All the mischievous made by the self become issues.

Then the mind,

The self seeks solution to these issues.

And in actuality,

This seeking only enhances the self-concern,

The self-indulgence.

Unless we end the self immediately,

That's to say to empty the thoughts immediately,

Empty the consciousness immediately.

And in that emptying,

The mind sees clearly everything.

In that clarity,

There are no issues.

Because all the confusion is created by the self.

Where there's no self,

There is no confusion.

And then there's an order in life.

Not an order imposed by an authority,

But an order when the mind comes upon the truth.

And the mind has been away from the greatest disorder ever,

The self.