This Commercial World Is Encouraging Being Personal

**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 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, and just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already part of true meditation.

Transcript

Stop being personal is to inquire into the self,

To understand totally the essence of the ego The mind is finding out or living without any sense of ego And in that living,

Which is naturally impersonal,

Clear,

Certain,

Which is not found false,

Verse But the mind sees things as they are,

Which brings about this unshakable certainty And this is the authentic living that's never been tainted by this craftive,

Petty,

Commercial,

And personal state of mind Where there's goodness,

Being personal is not And you must see the truth of it in person for yourself Only a mind that is never personal can have the emotion in the right place Else the mind is full of all kinds of sentimentalism and emotionalism Creating all kinds of nonsense Can one really perceive the danger of being personal?

Why are you so personal?

This commercial world is based on these personal things And everyone is English-eating each other From the commercial advertisements to anything to make one feel well-treated,

Privileged So the mind is always being stimulated and cultivated in such an elusive state which is called personal And such a mind relies on verse for positivity Look at the verse from the newspapers,

From the website,

From all kinds of commercials It is all blowing It is too positive,

Too true,

And the mind is conditioned to that And such a mind,

Which is personal and also commercial,

Can't really see things as they are Because the mind has been spoiled by these excessive positivities created by the verse,

By the expressions,

Which is illusion Unless one really sees the tricks from the verse,

Sees its own attachment to verse See these utter superficialities trapped in verse The mind can't go into oneself to see what is actual,

Which is beyond verse