Don’t Seek The Truth, Just Drop Your Labels

The important thing is not to know the truth of who I am or what “I” am. You’ll never succeed.  There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels. As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions.” Drop your theories; don’t seek the truth. Truth isn’t something you search for. If you stop being opinionated, you would know. If you drop your labels, you would know. What do I mean by labels? Every label you can conceive of except perhaps human being

Transcript

Now the important thing is not,

Listen to this sentence carefully,

The important thing is not to know who I is or what I is.

You'll never succeed.

There are no words for this.

The important thing is to drop the label.

But you said I am a success.

That's where you were in error.

That's when you got plunged into darkness.

You identified yourself with success.

I am a failure.

I am a lawyer.

I am a businessman.

Now you know what's going to happen to you if you identify yourself with these things?

You're going to cling to them.

You're going to be worried that they may fall apart.

And that's where all your suffering comes in.

That's what I meant in the beginning when I said to you,

If you're suffering,

You're asleep.

Do you want a sign that you're asleep?

Here it is.

You're suffering.

You're asleep.

Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth,

That you might understand that there is some falsehood somewhere.

Just as physical pain is given to you to understand that there's a disease,

There's an illness somewhere.

So suffering points out that there's some falsehood somewhere.

Suffering occurs when you clash with reality.

When your illusion clashes with reality.

When your falsehood clashes with truth,

Then you have suffering.

Otherwise,

There is no suffering.

Reviews

Excellent message to not clash with reality!

Magnificent as usual🙏🏽💝

i really needed to hear this - thank you for sharing adm talks 🙏🤍✨

Yup!

No words or labels. Only being

This is clearly something I need to hear on a regular basis. Thank you.

Thank you 🙏

Indeed 🪔🔥🌟