The Controller Is The Controlled,The Division Is Conflict

**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

Ultimately,

There are so many things to control.

The traffic has to be controlled.

Many other practical things have to be controlled.

But why does this control overflow to the mind,

To the psyche?

Why this control becomes so prevalent?

Almost everybody is doing that.

All kinds of mental control.

The very control means a division between the controller and the controlled.

And the very control brings about this egoism.

The ego is the controller.

The very making efforts mentally brings and really harms the ego.

So the self,

The ego,

The me is born out of the control.

The division between the controller,

Which is the me,

And the controlled means that the controller and the controlled are two different things.

Is that so?

Let's inquire together to look,

To understand what's the relationship between the controlled and the controller.

The controller is me.

I want control.

I need control.

Who am I?

Isn't it the me,

I,

The images about me?

My name,

My title,

My position,

My possession,

My office,

My families,

My money,

My estate,

My fame,

My privacy,

My telephone,

My relationship.

All kinds of images about me.

What is the controlled?

Isn't it awesome images to be,

To become,

Or to avoid?

I want to be more efficient,

So I need to control to be that.

All kinds of efforts are in the domain of control to be something,

To become something.

So the controller,

Which is me,

Is all kinds of mental images.

The controlled is also mental images.

The controller and the controlled are all mental images,

Are all thought processes.

They are both one,

Aren't they?

Why those we divide them as the controlled and the controller,

But in actuality,

They are the one.

They are all the thought processes generating the mental images.

It is in one state.

It is from this total mind,

But we divide a mind into the controlled and the controller.

Where there is division,

There must be mental conflict.

No doubt.