Fear -- Why Cannot One Meet The Issues

**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, nor agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

Transcript

To solve the issues of life,

One has to meet this moment because all the issues are at this moment.

And only a mind which is fully living at this moment is capable of meeting the issues.

But for most people,

Why can't they meet the issues?

This is the question we have to investigate together.

Is it because of fear?

The fear of facing this moment,

Facing the issues?

Or the fear towards an image one has held about this moment,

Still the abstraction about this moment,

Which actually has nothing to do with this moment?

So the fear towards the abstraction about this moment blocks one from meeting this moment mistakenly.

Which means that if the mind is really at this moment,

The mind has no fear,

And the mind is capable of meeting all the issues at this moment.

This further implies that the mind which is trapped in the past must trap in all kinds of subtle fear.

In that trapping,

The mind can't really meet this moment.

One has to end the fear,

Which is to end the past psychologically.

So the mind can really stay at this moment.