Grow, Not Seek growth, Being Oneself - The Greatest Potential

**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 really understand what is seeking, We have to understand the movement of thoughts. Some friend said, Are we not to seek growth and potentials? A baby grows up to be an adult. Does he or she seek the growth? If we really grow, We grow. But seeking growth is a different thing. What is potential? Why is potential becoming a topic? What's the incentive behind this word potential? To realize our potential. Isn't it the self wants to be something, Want to acquire to achieve something, To be different from others? And the mind is seeking potential for what? So we have to realize how this society, How the whole education condition our mind. This sense of the egoism, The sense of self is imparted from youth, From school, From the society. The mind is pushed to seek growth, To seek potential, But for what? And one must see the problem, The pain, The suffering, The struggle in seeking something. Seeking the growth, Seeking the potential. Can we grow without seeking? Can we really be ourselves? That's the greatest potential the human beings can ever have. Being ourselves is different from seeking being different. Being ourselves means that the mind must understand itself thoroughly. Or else the mind always conform, Always follow, Always imitate, Always seeking. In that seeking, The mind is trapped in a loop, In a pattern, Therefore it can no longer be itself.

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