Psychological Experience Are The Interpretation Done By Me

**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 a meditation practice.

Transcript

Intellectually,

It's not so difficult to understand the me is a bunch of images,

Thoughts,

Reactions.

But from that,

We also have to investigate why the me feels so true.

Why the past feels so true?

Why does the me hold on to the past?

Obviously,

When the me,

When the self holds on to the past,

The me,

The self,

Believes in the past.

Taking the past as true,

Isn't it?

Believing in the past,

The self,

The me,

Is trapped in the past forever.

With all kinds of pleasure from the past,

All kinds of sufferings,

Problems.

To understand me,

We have to understand what is the past.

Physically,

There is a past.

Two years ago,

There was an earthquake.

It did happen.

But when the mind thinks about it,

This past exists as thoughts,

As some images,

Ideas.

As long as the mind gives thoughts to it,

It becomes thoughts.

When the mind doesn't realize the mind itself is giving thoughts,

The mind just mystics this thoughts as something true.

For these things outside us,

Like the earthquake,

It is rather easy to differentiate or notice it is something outside us.

But psychologically,

We also have a lot of experiences,

The insult,

The praise,

All kinds of problems with myself or with others.

This kind of past is more difficult to observe objectively.

There's no doubt that the earthquake did happen.

But have you ever doubted whether your psychological experience did happen or not?

Do you really remember it correctly?

Or you just believe in it without really questioning it?

As a human being,

We are also animals,

Right?

With the neuron system working at each moment,

We are talking to different people,

Have a different way of life.

At each moment,

All these neurons are bringing about all kinds of experiences.

When the neurons are working harmoniously.

But when the mind is being dominated by thoughts,

By the me,

What the mind is experiencing is being interpreted by thoughts,

Becomes images,

Becomes conclusions.

Combining all kinds of views,

Assumptions,

Conclusions,

This becomes the experience the mind realizes.

So it is not the real direct experience of neurons.

It is more interpretation by the thoughts according to its own conditionings,

Biases,

Idiosyncrasies,

Views,

Beliefs,

Whatever.

And all this experience becomes the images,

Thoughts,

Words,

And becomes memory the mind can remember.