Now, Can One Stand Alone By Setting Aside Everything?

**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.

Listening to this talk is meditation. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without being 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

It is easy to escape,

To think something different,

To get some pleasure from thoughts or ideas,

To get entertained.

It is more difficult to think inward,

To examine ourselves.

So,

A lazy mind is always taking the easy approach for convenience.

And this convenience creates such a world,

Turbulent,

Conflicting,

Confusing.

It is easy to accumulate thoughts,

Ideas,

But it is more challenging to imitate because it needs your action now,

Immediately.

But the mind still wants pleasure,

Wants to postpone it.

The mind has all kinds of excuses,

Pretext.

You see,

These thought processes trap the mind in time.

Okay,

I will do it tomorrow,

I will do it in the future,

But if there is no action now,

Nothing will happen forever.

So this dialogue between you and the speaker is very serious because we look at life together,

Look at the fundamental level of the living.

It is a matter of life and death.

We must be very careful to understand the subtleties which have greater importance in the simplicity of living,

Else the life becomes so complicated,

So meaningless,

So isolated.

So this moment can we set aside all the things.

So it is really between you and the speaker.

If the mind is being filled with all kinds of inferences,

Then you are not alone.

Without this aloneness,

It is not you and the speaker,

It is hundreds of people and the speaker.

So there is no relation between you and the speaker unless you are really alone mentally,

So we can really inquire together.

Can you really put aside everything else the human has created?

So you are totally alone at this moment.

Can you do that now?

Just do it.

So now let's keep silent together for three or four minutes.

Let's be alone together.

You and the speaker only belong to this moment.

Let's hold,

Let's watch,

Let's stand alone now.

Let's be alone together for three or four minutes.

Let's be alone together for three or four minutes.

Let's be alone together for three or four minutes.

Let's be alone together for three or four minutes.

Let's be alone together for three or four minutes.

Let's be alone together for three or four minutes.