Real Friendship Exists Only In Compassion & Care

**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

This serious dialogue between you and a speaker is rare in life,

Isn't it?

This life is full of all kinds of superficial entities.

People are so selfish,

Individualistic,

Nobody really cares about others.

And everyone is lost in their own illusions,

Totally confused.

And this dialogue between you and a speaker must go beyond these superficial entities.

This dialogue is between human beings to inquire who we really are.

Not the names,

Not the titles,

Not the certificate,

Education,

Houses,

Money.

What you really are has nothing to do with that.

All of that are only narratives,

Stories.

And most of the time,

You are living with those labels from one story to another.

And when the mind is trapped in those stories,

The mind is not serious.

And all those stories generate so much fear,

And nobody really speaks out directly.

People turn into the pleasure to escape,

To avoid,

To delay.

If you and the speaker are really friends,

Not friends as trash can,

But friends to talk over those issues together seriously,

To thoroughly understand all those issues,

Which also means that all of those issues are solved.

And this process really points to the real friendship.

Because this very serious dialogue is the very acting of caring.

When the mind is really empty,

This whole being is really alone.

And only in that aloneness,

There is a real friendship,

There is a real relationship,

There is love,

Compassion,

Care.

And what else does one ask for?

Nothing,

Right?

This is already the beauty of life.

And this beauty only exists in this simplicity,

When the mind understands everything deeply and clearly.

Be a human,

Not be an Englishman,

A Dutchman,

A Frenchman.

Be a human.

And this authentic life then starts.

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