Me Is Born Out Of Dependence, Me Is Dependence

**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

The mind wants to be taught how to be peaceful,

How to calm down.

This becomes another business,

Right?

All kinds of guru things.

Can one stop any dependence mentally?

To inquire into the self requires absolute mental independence.

Else one can't inquire into the self.

If the mind is depending either on medicine or drugs or any comforting verse,

Ideas,

Philosophies,

The mind can't inquire.

And that mind can easily misinterpret what the speaker says as a new philosophy,

New ideas.

So when the mind is depending,

The mind can't understand itself at all.

And such a mind isn't communicating with the speaker at all.

Because the very depending mind is in its own illusion,

Its own isolation.

The mind always translates what it hears through its own conditioning,

Its own illusions.

Therefore,

It doesn't listen at all.

To inquire into the psyche,

One must observe all kinds of mental dependence in one's life.

The very clearing all the mental dependence is inquiring into the self.

Because the self is born out of dependence.

For example,

The mind is relying on medicine or drugs to alleviate what is so-called depression or any kind of mental challenges.

What is the entity that depends?

The me,

Isn't it?

The me depends on something else,

Something external,

For momentary mental stability.

What's the relationship between the me and dependence?

Is me different from dependence?

Or is the me the same with dependence?

The very depending creates the me.

When the mind is depending,

The mind is trapped in illusion.

The illusion of me appears.