Seeking Brings About The Self & Therefore Confusion

**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, nor agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

Transcript

When the mind is really peaceful,

The mind doesn't really want peace because such a mind doesn't realize it is peaceful.

Unless the mind isn't peaceful,

The mind begins to seek peace,

Want peace,

Find peace.

When one is really happy,

One won't realize one is happy.

The moment one realizes one is happy,

The memory already takes over.

At that moment,

It is no longer happiness but the pleasure from thinking about the scenario of being happy.

And only when is unhappy,

One begins to crave for being happy,

Looking for all kinds of solutions to be happy.

Similarly,

When the mind feels unequal,

The mind begins to seek the equality.

We have to notice this trap,

A trap that traps the mind for thousands of years.

It might be in a different life situation but it's the same trap that is seeking.

The mind is always seeking something when the mind doesn't have it.

This kind of seeking brings about all kinds of demands which become all kinds of activities economically and politically.

And if the mind is conditioned to this seeking,

The mind won't understand the self because the very seeking brings about the self,

The egoism,

All kinds of selfish things.

When the mind is conditioned to the seeking,

The mind also justifies the self,

The ego.

Then all kinds of analyses become paralysis.

No answer,

Only confusion.