I Am Responsible For A Degenerate Society & I Must Change

**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, no agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already part of true meditation.

Transcript

This whole world,

No matter where you are living,

Which society you are in,

Is generally based on the concept of me.

This entity which is called me is so deep-seated and around that concept,

That entity,

We accumulate too many things about me.

The stories about me.

The experiences of me.

The life of me.

The money,

The house,

Everything of me.

And such a life is a storehouse over the past,

Which is me.

Where there is accumulation,

The accumulation of thoughts about me,

The life is inevitably in the past.

Such a life is dead.

It has lost its vitality.

Because this world is totally trapped in the past,

Which is the me,

Which is the thought.

All kinds of cunningness.

All kinds of absurdities are there.

And this is the life most people are living.

That very way of living brings about such a society,

Which is totally immoral,

Totally degenerate,

Totally meaningless.

To meditate,

One has to see all these issues deeply.

The futility of this egocentric world.

The hopelessness created by the isolation of me,

Which is a sense of despair.

To really change the society for the better.

To really change means put it into action,

Not a slogan.

There are too many slogans nowadays all over the place.

Putting aside all the slogans,

If the society really be changed for the better,

There must be the radical change of this ugly egocentric life.

I say it clearly.

I say I'm fully responsible for such a society.

We are all responsible.

As for,

I'm eager to change.

To change radically.

The world is me.

Me is the world.

Such a world brings about such a collective degenerate society.

To change,

I have to change from here.

I don't need to wait for anybody else to change.

That's only a self-deception.

I must change now first.