The Real Issue -- The Energy Is Absorbed By One's Own 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.

Listening to this talk is meditation. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without being stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, no agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already part of true meditation.

Transcript

This existence with its ugliness is totally meaningless.

With the outward development of medicine or whatever,

The longevity of human beings has been much improved.

But infinitely,

Psychologically,

The tremendous suffering and sorrow is still there.

Without solving this tremendous issue of living with incessant psychological issues,

This modern world with its development only makes one suffer longer as one lives longer.

And in this utterly individualistic world,

The mind is chaotic,

It's confused,

Baffled by all kinds of unbelievable things that can't be explained,

Can't be rationalized by such a petty mind which is so self-centered and selfish.

In spite of that,

The mind is still escaping more furiously,

More devilishly into all kinds of pleasure,

All kinds of very subtle pleasure,

So the mind becomes pettier and pettier.

Such a life is deteriorating into something more ugly,

And it is becoming more and more difficult for such a petty and self-centered mind to see this disastrous sight everyone is contributing to.

This whole world is in crisis,

But do you see it or not?

Or you are just seeing it now because you are being influenced by the speaker's verse?

When you are only concerned about your own issues,

All your energy has been absorbed by all those issues.

So the mind has no energy left to look,

To observe this world.

When one really gives all one's energy to look,

Observe,

To see the disaster,

To see the crisis in its living,

In its world,

One is free of all one's own issues.