Why do we suffer?
Why we live with heavy burdens of the past and future?
Reacting mechanically,
Unconsciously from the past memories and stories is suffering.
This automatic mode of reactivity becomes our habit.
In a deep sense,
We become everything that the conditioned mind projects.
We become the stories told by our minds.
Is there any creativity,
Any joy,
Any freshness,
Any lightness in living mechanically?
Reacting automatically from our past baggage.
The transformation is to stop reacting and relating from that old machinery.
So can we see instantly,
Here and now,
When this old machinery is about to react?
When the reaction is arising,
At that very moment,
Can I catch it instantly,
See it immediately,
Fully?
That takes away the power of reactivity.
To see that any reaction from this old machinery is suffering,
Is pain,
Is complicating my life,
My relationships.
There is no point in living from that reactivity.
There is no beauty in that automatic way of living.
To perceive it,
To realize it fully,
Can I see it instantly,
Very deeply,
Passionately?
When this machinery withdraws itself,
Suspends itself happily,
Voluntarily,
Effortlessly,
That is transformation.
And this transformation happens through this pure seeing,
Without analyzing,
Without trying to find cause and effect.
Can my whole being be so quiet,
So still,
That it can see whatever is arising?
When it is quiet,
When my whole being is in this state of observation from that quiet mind,
Then reactivity has no power to continue.
It dies,
It dissolves in that space of stillness,
Which is pure presence.
So can we live life from this vast space of stillness,
Of non-reactivity?
When there is a stopping of the reinforcement of our old habits,
Of our old patterns,
Then there is peace.
We are not wasting our energies into a meaningless circus.
We are no longer a prisoner of this reactive mind.
This is freedom.
Freedom is not to live as a prisoner of this reactive mind.
If I go back again and again to my old patterns,
Justify it,
Rationalize it,
Or even fight with it and say,
Oh,
How difficult it is.
It is the old machinery which says it is not possible to stop.
Of course,
It would keep on saying it because it is comfortable and secure not to leave what we have known,
Even though it may be so painful and heavy.
There is a different energy,
An energy of pure observation,
Of deep seeing and listening,
An energy of silence,
Of pure presence,
Which can realize here and now the meaninglessness,
The absurdity of this reactive mind.
To see that there is no beauty in that,
There is no love in that,
There is no joy in that.
Just seeing it in a glance totally,
That is transformation here and now.
Then we can have a different kind of relationship with oneself and with others without creating any illusory separation.
Then we can relate to ourselves outside the field of reactivity.
Then I can see myself as I am without any projection.
And I can see others as they are without any imposition.
In silence,
In stillness,
There is no separation.
Therefore,
There is no fear,
No conflict,
No pain.
A noisy mind is full of fears because it is separating itself.
It is believing it in its own stories of a separate fixed identity,
An identity which is projected by my mind.
In stillness,
There is peace,
There is beauty,
There is love.
Therefore,
There is no fear.
So the invitation is to stop responding from this old machinery here and now.
See it instantly and intensely without going into the analysis of cause and effect,
Bypassing this whole field of knowledge-based inquiry,
The whole field of conditioning.
Seeing it immediately and there is a stop,
A pause,
An effortless opening up to an unconditional beingness,
An unconditional love,
A simple timeless presence.
