The Real Understanding Is Emptying, Vice Versa

**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

To meditate is to act.

Nobody else can help you act.

It's you that act.

Just say things as they are,

Like this microphone in front of the speaker.

If one looks at the microphone,

The color,

The quality,

When the mind is really looking at it,

The mind is not translating the microphone into an image or thought.

Similarly,

When one really looks at a tree,

One touches the tree,

The leaves see the color,

The beauty of it.

Not thinking about the name of the tree,

Biological knowledge about it.

The very doing that,

The mind has already ceased to see the tree actually.

You see,

The mind is so easy into the abstraction.

To actually act is to pay attention to this tendency so the mind can see things as they are without going into the abstraction,

The verbal things,

Symbols,

Images.

And doing that also means that the mind stays unknown.

Else,

The images,

The thought,

The verse,

The symbols bring about numerous new images,

Thoughts,

Reactions.

They are all the abstraction that traps the mind in the known.

If one really listens to what is being said here,

What is being said doesn't really leave a mark on your mind at all because the mind is listening beyond the verse.

Else,

The mind is so attached to the verse,

No matter who says,

The mind is always registering with the verse.

Those verses always leave a mark on the mind and such a mind is incapable of going beyond the verse.

When the mind really listens with full attention,

The verse we use here won't leave a mark on the mind.

That's the beauty of this self-inquiry,

The power of it because the real understanding is empty.

This empty is the real understanding and this is the beauty of living,

The beauty of truth.

And in this beauty,

The mind is innocent.

Such a mind can't be hurt because this mind stays unknown.

The mind sees fact actually and such a mind is free of any issues,

Any hurt.

And this is the freedom of living.