Understanding What Is Life Needs A Simple Look - Perception

**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. This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, no agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

Transcript

What is the life?

How can we perceive the life?

Isn't it because of the neuron system which give us such rich feelings,

Emotions,

Experiences?

The neurons are changing at each moment.

The life is full of dynamics.

This dynamics implies the life is always new.

But we cling to the past.

We see everything through the past.

So we are oscillated by past,

The real life,

Which is always at this moment,

Is always new.

To learn about life,

To learn about ourselves,

We have to drop the known,

Drop the arrogance,

Drop any self-importance.

We can really observe ourselves at this moment.

Not through verse,

Not through expressions.

Just look without judgment,

Without condemnation.

Such a simple look is becoming so difficult for people living in thoughts,

Living in the past.

Because living in the past,

Which has been enhanced by the culture,

By the education,

By the ideology,

Becomes so strong.

A simple look becomes so complicated.

This moment we are inquiring together by a simple look.

Not through some theories to justify it,

Or some verse to take some comfort from it.

Not just simply look at this moment.

At each moment.