Meditation Is To Gather The Energy To Leave Mainstream

**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

To understand ourselves deeply,

Truly,

One has to step out of this mainstream.

It is not to cut off brutally,

But to deeply understand the conditioning of the mind.

Why am I conforming?

Why am I imitating?

Of course,

Such a life is easy.

It's convenient.

Or at least to nowhere,

Only creating all kinds of conflicts,

Confusions,

Problems.

Such an easy life makes life very hard.

So we inquire together,

As human beings,

To understand all those deep issues beneath the daily living.

To inquire whether it is possible to live in such a chaotic world,

Immortal,

Degenerate world by standing alone.

Whether it is possible for one to have this inner independence so one can live a life which is immovable in such a world full of inferences,

Pushes,

Miscommunication,

And all kinds of nonsensical stuff.

The very doing so requires the energy gathered.

Else,

The life is being carried away by thoughts by this invisible hand.

So this very serious investigation,

Inquiry,

Is also the transformation.

Whether can live a life by gathering the energy,

Channeling the energy.

And this very doing so is meditation.

Without just sitting here for 10 minutes doing some exercise,

Without understanding all those,

Then that very exercise becomes another self-deception.

When one understands everything,

The exercise has a place.

But without understanding everything,

The exercise becomes a trap.

When with the meanings,

Beating up traps,

Human beings have been stuck in.