Seeing The Actual Brings The Ultimate Certainty

**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 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, and just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already part of true meditation.

Transcript

The verse,

The theories,

The views,

The ideas,

Conclusions create numerous filters and screens.

The mind is always translating,

Interpreting,

According to the things it knows.

So this process is always accumulative.

And such a mind is old,

It's dull,

Dead.

Because it never learns.

So such a mind is trapped in its own distortion,

In its own illusion,

Its own isolation.

To have this capacity to learn,

To really see the actual,

Is part of the meditation.

The actual is beyond any verse,

Which requires diligence of the mind to observe,

To reason,

To see things as they are,

Without,

Through its own preference,

Its own judgment,

Contamination.

Else the mind is always verbal,

Always clinging to the verse for comfort,

For certainty.

And such a mind is merely a slave to verse,

Therefore it is incapable of observing itself totally.

So all the issues are there,

All the problems are there.

This journey requires a mind that must stay fresh,

That is able to empty all the verse.

So the mind has nothing to be attached to.

The mind is free to look.

But if the mind is relying on verse for certainty,

For a sense of security,

Such a mind is never able to go beyond the verse to see what is actually taking place.

When the mind is able to do that,

The mind is able to see what is actually taking place.

And that seeing the actual is the ultimate certainty,

Which is beyond any verse,

Any expressions.

And this life is totally transformed.

But now you are still listening to the verse.

After the final mouth of the speaker,

If you don't do it by yourself,

You always think what is being said here is another idea,

Thought.

But if you really see the actual,

You will find out for yourself what is an authentic living,

What is truth.

And what the speaker says is no longer relevant because such a mind is able to come upon this vastness,

Which is totally beyond any verse.

So this journey of meditation,

Which is life,

Requires humility,

Diligence,

And seriousness.

So the mind is eager to find out,

Eager to get all the energy to find out what is the actual,

What is the truth.

And this journey never ends.

Because the mind is learning,

Is observing at each moment.

And this life only exists at this moment.

But this journey that embodies this life is moment by moment.

It never ends,

But it also ends at each moment,

Also starts at each moment.