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Understanding The Nature Of Thoughts Is Transformation

by Cico (Chonghe Zhang)

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

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Transcript

No matter where you are,

How busy you were,

Can you put aside everything else so we can learn,

Think together,

Without any burden?

This burden is always created out of thoughts,

Numerous thoughts,

Ideas,

Conclusions,

Illusions.

The mind is lazy,

The mind is always relying on thoughts for fulfillment,

For satisfaction,

For confirmation,

Certainty.

But the thought itself is full of all kinds of issues.

It is never stable,

It is always changing,

But the mind is so lazy,

Always wanting to be told,

Be confirmed,

Be assured by thoughts.

So life is accumulating thoughts all the time and this burden becomes bigger and bigger.

To understand oneself deeply is to understand thoughts.

This life is merely some thoughts.

The whole society is based on all kinds of thoughts,

The known,

The knowledge.

To understand oneself is to see clearly that this life is based on thoughts actually.

The ego is a thought product.

The me,

The self,

Is a thought product.

That's why one needs to put aside all the thoughts,

All the burdens to observe the thoughts.

One can't observe thoughts through thoughts,

Which is self-deception,

As is happening now all the world.

So to understand,

One must step out of the thoughts to observe.

If one is into the thoughts,

For the pleasure,

For the reaction,

One can't really observe.

So to observe objectively,

One has to step back,

Step out of these thought processes to observe really objectively,

To perceive,

To look directly at what is really going on on the mind.

This observation in such an objective way of the thoughts is to inquire and understand oneself actually.

So this requires tremendous work from you.

If you merely listen to the speaker without really doing anything,

Nothing will change.

But if you really act,

If you really give full attention to all the issues,

The role of this speaker is totally unnecessary because you are able to discover,

Find out for yourself.

To find out what is really true,

Not according to what other people says,

Including the speaker,

But to find out for yourself by seeing the force in the living to come upon what is the true,

The eternal truth that can't be overshadowed by anything.

So this inquiry,

This investigation needs a lot of energy from you.

So you need to gather all the energy,

Else the energy is being dissipated by thoughts all the time.

So this moment,

Can we really meet?

Which means that can we gather all the energy together,

To think together,

To find out together what is really true in the life?

And this authentic discovery,

The actual discovery when the mind is really paying full attention to all the issues,

Initializes this genuine transformation of a human being.

Meet your Teacher

Cico (Chonghe Zhang)Amsterdam, Netherlands

4.8 (4)

Recent Reviews

J

July 22, 2022

I really enjoyed this short, insightful talk. Thank you 🙏🏼

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