The Greater Issues Are The Root Of The Smaller Issues

**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 a meditation practice.

Transcript

All the issues come from our consciousness.

That's to say,

All the issues are the human issues,

The mental issues.

From the pollution,

Climate change,

Greenhouse,

To all kinds of daily petty issues.

They are all from the same source,

The mind.

Without understanding the essence of the mind,

That is the structure of the thoughts,

The structure of the self.

All kinds of self-deception,

Self-hypnosis,

Seeking solutions to all these issues are just part of the self-deception.

The mind keeps creating issues,

The mind keeps seeking solutions.

Look around this world,

The human being has been trapped in all kinds of immediate issues,

Incessant,

Always there.

In the process of solving the issues,

New issues pop up.

From the politics,

To the economy,

To every field the human being has been doing.

The mind is trapped in that small end,

In that small thing,

In that small issues.

And the mind is busy solving all kinds of immediate issues.

To be very serious in this self-inquiry is to see this pattern.

Only when we are able to see this pattern,

Then it is possible for us to set aside those immediate issues.

Which doesn't mean that we don't solve it,

But just put aside for a while.

So we can inquire into the bigger issues,

The greater issues.

Else we keep being busy with all kinds of small issues.

We rarely touch upon the big ones,

Which are the root of the small issues.

In the greater,

The lesser is.

In the lesser,

The greater is not.