1. Technological advancements and reality

2. Action without Risk

3. Different Teachers and You

4. Pain is blockage

5. The field of mind

6. Outer disorder is for action

7. Alert Mind

8. Relationship with the present moment is unalterable

9. Use of Intoxicants

10. Misery of others

11. Separateness is a myth

12. Goal and Truth

13. Stillness and Action

14. The Zero Ground

15. Silence

16. Living is a Verb

17. 'What is' is Wonder

1.Technological Advancements and Reality

Whatever you can see or obtain with senses and mind will always be contaminated, limited, for use only. It cannot be used to understand reality, the truth, which is a singular movement. Seer and seen are one in that singular movement. Movement of senses, mind and outer word is its expression.

Then we can never know reality?

We can only know the limit of our senses and mind, the frontiers of mind. To reach at the end of the mind, to understand the programming of the mind is to let the question of knowledge drop. Truth itself shines.

Man wants to live in automation, this is an undisputed fact. He wants unalloyed enjoyment, which is not tempered by any disturbance, pain including disease, accident, losses.
Machines, computers, desire for money, power all go to show that man wants to be free of all the turmoils of living through automation, that is, every thing should move automatically just with the touch of a button or by mere intention. But instead of understanding our true nature, we are lost (limit ourselves to) in gadgets, money, power and so on.
Automation of the whole scheme of the universe is the truth.

The fundamental error (as shown throughout these pages) to which the mind is tethered corrupts our automation, as we feel more and more miserable with more and more pressure on our mind.

The changes (material advancements) in the material world are not evolution for the individual. The material world presented at his birth is 'given' to him. The previous period's material performance is of no consequence to him. A child born now can have no actual experience, how the life would be without computers, mobile phones and satellite television. So human evolution in time is nondescript. The period from birth to death is the only period, which has any consequence for the individual. Considering material progress as evolution makes the evolution a graded concept, as if something is growing in man. The previous man was doomed and over a period of time we will evolve. By the same logic, for the future man we are in the doomed category. It would mean that we can not come out of doom within our life time.

If we consider present period, say, computer age superior to pre-computer era, we forget that post computer period is ready to come. If we say that we do not take any sensation of the post computer period, then by the same logic, there was no sensation of the computer age in the pre-computer era.

It means every period is complete in itself. The material inventions are only for our use and enjoyment in the present.

We are enamoured by technology as if technology will deliver us, whereas it is only change of name or form. Totality is not changed. The movement from lesser technology to better technology or from no technology to good technology is not a movement from disorder to order but play within the order, from order to order.

2.Action without Risk

Can there be action without risk so that I may act freely without being dependent upon results for my release, joy?

When at the moment of action, you are not seeking satisfaction in respect of results; you eliminate all the risk thereby.

But the results may not be in my favour?

You have to be ready for this at the moment of action.

But being ready means nothing; my anxiety still does not go?

Just be clear that at the moment of action, you have no choice as to the results. It is psychological error to feel satisfied about future results now. Can you see it? To think at the moment of action whether the result will be favourable or not is an extraneous thought, which causes leakage of energy. You can never be certain now about the future. The next moment is uncertain. By acknowledging its uncertainty, by acknowledging the error, you release yourself from the fetters of your imaginations. There is release of sufficient energy within you to act. The energy that was locked in seeking satisfaction through expectations is released. Then your efforts do not bother you.
Be sure that the universe does not exist to punish you because of lack of knowledge or capacity. It is only the illusion of seeking satisfaction about the future results now that troubles you.
Whatever knowledge or capacity you have at a particular moment is sufficient to act without risk. Such actions are always without any regret.
Now what happens, you do not depend upon the achievement of plans and targets for your satisfaction. Now they have different meaning for you.

Why should we not feel satisfied when plans are achieved?

The satisfaction enjoyed by the mind keeps you tied to the struggle'achievement'struggle mode. This satisfaction is a myth, an illusion, which invites its contra, that is, stress so that you may make efforts to achieve.

What is wrong in it, this is life?

What we are pointing out is that you are struggling to come out of struggle only and not to remain struggling. The satisfaction keeps you tied to struggle.

Will ignoring, rejecting the satisfaction end the struggle?

Then this rejection of satisfaction will become another allurement, another satisfaction. We land up from where we started.
You have to observe the actual workings of your mind, that you are always escaping the stress of struggle through drinks, sex, sense of fulfillment in your work and even through religious activities. True significance of drinks, sex etc. will be revealed to you when you do not use them as escapes from your stress.

You can not manage your stress by any means. Managing stress is the postponement of stress, which is ready to erupt any time. Understanding the root of stress (that is, you are escaping the pain of stress by satisfactory escapes) within you dissolves it.
Once you are actually aware, how your sense of gratification in any thing or idea has bound you to stress, to all the negative situations- you will be connected to 'Life', to 'wholeness'. You move on a different track where only action is there and that is joy. Your dependence upon future for results, for enjoyment is over.
Just understanding the above is sufficient. Understand and leave the words. If you try to apply the above and obtain results, you still move to seek satisfaction in results. Understanding the above is itself action.

3.Different Teachers and You

You are confused hearing the words of so many teachers, A, B or C, sometimes seeming contradictory. You want a definite answer, a definite end. Now what is the 'truth'? How to see, come out of this confusion and get to the 'truth'? Seeing the confusion, not running from the confusion to find a satisfactory slot is the end of the game. Mind gropes to find and gets confused. When you see this game of the mind, how it is trying to find a satisfactory slot, there is release of tremendous energy within you.

Everybody wants to be free of the process as results are tempting. Can one watch that one is always depending upon results for release as if the process is a compulsive activity? One is aware of this duality, this conflict within, but never questions it. Even if it is questioned, this questioning leads to some psychological comfort in the form of any idea. When this questioning is without any motive of satisfaction, there is fusion. One lands in the wonderland.

4.Pain is blockage

Every pain if traced backward (without any motive) ends at one being blocked in some idea, some satisfaction - which is dear to one, which one does not want to release. If say, one's children are not getting good marks - if one traces the pain, it traces out to be because of blocking of oneself in the idea that children should be good at studies. Releasing the block itself is tremendous energy, which shows action without any residue, regret. Reacting to pain in a stereotyped manner by blaming, complaining, feeling guilty is the action of the present mind, which only perpetuates pain and suffering. Pain always surmises out to be an offshoot of my blocking myself in ideas very dear to me.

5.The field of mind

The agitation of the mind is the disorder within the field of the mind. Mind observes the outer world almost always with a tinge of this agitation (whether positive or negative). The agitation perpetuates agitation as all efforts to end the agitation add to the agitation. In keen observation, it would be clear that at the time of action, mind can not end its agitation as to the finality of the end. There is every possibility that the end may end in trouble. Acknowledging this fact (not ignoring) puts the mind in a fluid state, which may entail fear.

Now seeing that you have no remedy to end that fear- no solace can end that fear now, all solaces put off the fear- there is integration within you, which releases tremendous energy, which puts an end to fear. The fear surmises to be a thought in contrast to my pleasure, satisfaction. Then mind simply puts order into its mechanical field of knowledge available at the moment.

What the present mind is doing is to ignore the fear, ignoring gives a satisfaction. The satisfaction is simply an addition to the agitation. In pure observation, your satisfaction is fused with the fear. Time as an entity to achieve ends. In the vitiated observation, I was depending upon time to relieve me from fear at the end. In pure observation, there is no reaction to fear as you have seen and pocketed the fear. When you demand satisfaction, fear will raise its head. Satisfaction is sensation in the field of time. It is simply a thought, a spillover, a device to perpetuate the agitation.

The vitiated observation tapers a spillover, which becomes a sensation for the next moment. When there is no spillover, the observation ends with the change in outer scene.

To take safety measures as are in vogue is to be in order, is to put the mind in order. But to think that you are secure and safe is a psychological error as it conceals the fear or danger of untoward happening. To see the futility of the idea of safety, to see the error is a mutation in the brain. No measure can eradicate your fear of untoward happening.

Then for what purpose safety measures are there?
They are there as a matter of course, to be followed to avoid disorder, to meet the demand of the moment, to let the life go on, to live in coexistence.

But things are not so clear, there is conflict, confusion?
The confusion, conflict is the agitation within the field of the mind. Seeing this clearly without any psychological effort to ward them off reveals something, which is exclusive to you. It corrects the observation. The spillover does not happen. The observation ends from moment to moment.

Will once seeing it is sufficient?
This question is an agitation demanding an end. Hence will perpetuate the agitation. The correction of the observation is not a happening in time. Nothing goes, nothing comes. There is simply an awareness that confusion, conflict, disorder were erroneous perceptions. This awareness is there from moment to moment, every time new. Mind experiences newness of each moment. The awareness can not be held within the field of mind, time. Mind retains its field as it is within the ambit of time. The awareness locks it to act from moment to moment. All demands within the field of time cease.When you depend upon time to get release, to give you happiness- you are bound to time. Can you see your bondage? Seeing the bondage is the awareness of the bondage. Awareness of the bondage is the end of the bondage.

What is the bondage?
That tomorrow will deliver. We are fed by the idea that tomorrow will be better. The conflict of tomorrow versus today will never go. 'Truth' is not a dead thing that it will be realised tomorrow. It is ever flowing energy, which is not dependent upon time or place. Mind always postulates a satisfactory end, something done and every thing fine.

What is to be done tomorrow is a statement of fact. What is to be done tomorrow to feel happy is a never ending game. To seek satisfaction in possessions, relationships, situations or ideas (apart from the actual momentary material use) is to seek in vain. The search never ends as it (satisfaction) contains the fear and conflict of losing, maintaining, having more. Fear surmises time and again. We are unable to understand the pointers.

What is the field of mind?
Field of mind is recording (memory), mechanical, arithmetical, factual and to keep it in order and to stop when the field is in order- not as an action of will but seeing the futility of going further. Restricting the field of mind to actuality is a flight to the unknown.

What about mind's cry for more facts, more information, more capacity and so on?
At the moment of reckoning cry for more is not an actuality, hence is a vitiation in its field.

Can the mind not ask for more?
The 'more' will be an actuality tomorrow. In the field of time (mind), there can not be more or less. It is. 'More' will be an actuality when it becomes present. So the field of time never changes. It remains 'what is'. This understanding settles your cry for 'more'. The field of time is renewed every moment, which includes 'you' also.

So the field of time (mind), whatever it is, is to be treated as final?
It is again a judgment upon the field of mind. The vitiation always wants something to lean on.

But such thoughts are most likely to arise?
Watch these thoughts, which are extraneous to the field of mind. Not that the vitiation is to be condemned. While watching you will notice that it is a vitiation. This observation mutes your brain and psyche.
Can one see that only to put order in the field of reality is all that the mind can do? This is the limit of the mind.

Can not the mind plan, think for future?
It can plan, think on paper, in words only. It can not bridge the gap between present and future. So, future can be on paper in reality.

But this is a fact, what is the difference between what you are saying and what we are thinking?
The present mind thinks that future can be jubilant due to your plans, thinking. This is a vitiation in the present.

It means no plans for the future?
You become aware that plans are only on paper. Your efforts to achieve, the end- all are linked to the thread of eternity. Each period is complete. You are not fulfilled in the realisation of your plans, you are fulfilled in as it is. This understanding automatically develops when you see the aforesaid fact. This understanding is your connection to the 'whole'.

But mind dwells on more, on future, on comparisons-it feels comfortable in hope?
To see that hope is false as on today, mind's sticking to it is an error, psychological error. To see the error, to understand the error is an invitation to the 'truth' to operate. When you leave the crutches of hope, you are grounded in 'what is'.

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6.Outer disorder is for action

Either results are in my favour or I am in favour of whatever the results are. There is no 'in between'. The 'in between' is the error. This understanding gives me tremendous clarity to act, to operate in the world. This is one's understanding of the orderliness of the universe.

Can there be action without any risk at the moment of action, which is not dullness either?
If I am ready for any result, the action is without any risk. It does not mean that I give in when the results are not favourable. It (results) only indicates what further action is to be taken. So at all times, I am operating without risk. Why should I admit risk at any time? What is my compulsion to admit risk? This is because I have a notion to feel gratified about the results at the moment of action.

I may be ruined if I do not feel satisfaction about results?
This is the psychological error which keeps us in perpetual conflict. If you are ruined, you have to deal with ruin. Your satisfaction will not be able to take you out of ruin.

By not feeling gratified in the expectation of results, will every thing be okay?
This statement is again an expectation of fixed result (every thing okay). What ever is, it is order. You may like to change. But change will be for the future. Change is from order to order. The outer disorder is for your action and not to psychologically move from disorder to order.

Tenselessness in action is the key. Again it is not the result of your efforts. It is to see, understand the truth of tenselessness in action. To see something as wrong is to put yourself in conflict. Only action exists. To put something as wrong (psychologically) and then act is a perennial tension. The wrong is there only because of some legal, moral, or other judgmental ideas we have made in our minds.

This understanding itself affects the quality of your actions and goes to change the structure of your brain cells. Then we are acting because we are to act, that is all.
We are not barred from making corrections, when we perceive something as wrong. When the sensation (as shown above) is sucked out of the wrong, wrong loses its meaning, there is pure action.

But this understanding is not pursued by the mind because it does not satisfy it, it gives no satisfaction of blaming, complaining and then reacting.

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7.Alert mind

If one is disturbed by any challenge, it means one was asleep (psychologically) to that challenge. It does not mean that one should expect the challenge but one's mind has to be aware to any challenge that comes before. There is no question of non-acceptance of the challenge. It is a state of total alertness of the mind, where every challenge is within the ambit of awareness.

Can there be action from such a mind?
There can be no such action as requires the mind to sleep in respect of some challenge. It acts with all the ramifications of action now. It can not store any challenge to be faced in future. Challenge means something unfavourable.

Does it ignore all unexpected challenges?
When the mind takes the jerk of all the challenges (in potential form) that may pour into the mind; it makes the mind alive, there is no question of unexpected challenges. Everything is. It is there for action.

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8.Relationship with the present moment is unalterable

To operate in the world, every moment has to be taken as given for action. You cannot say that you do not like the moment. It is there like an insurmountable mountain before you. Not to accept it is to break your head by saying, 'why it is there'.

Does it mean that we cannot change the things, if we do not like?
Your choice, your action is for the next moment and not for the given moment. In fact, your acceptance of the present moment without any ifs and buts fuses you with an energy, which itself impels you for further action. This acceptance makes you aware of the unaware, automatic responses of the mind. You become aware, how your mind is working in a programmed manner. This awareness puts you on a different track.

Non-acceptance of the painful moment is to fight an illusory battle; the battle can never end because the non-acceptance causes a division within as if some one else is responsible, whereas in actuality this division does not exist. Acceptance of the present moment is the first and last step towards that oneness, which is the source of all life.

But the acceptance of the moment without blaming, complaining, feeling guilty is itself painful ?
The difference is that in non-acceptance, you escape the impact of the pain by any wishful thinking, entertainment even by thinking that it will be alright in future. In acceptance, the pain pierces you, opens the blocked channels, you automatically move towards oneness.

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9.Use of Intoxicants

Can we explore why one takes to addiction or why the need for such addiction is there?

Because we think that life is tough. There is cut-throat competition. We have to struggle hard to live. To earn money requires hard labour. Such assertions by the intelligentsia seep into the minds of the common man. He is perplexed.

Life is celebration. It is not a game of struggle. If you consider it a struggle, you are tied to struggle~achievement~struggle sequence. One is never out of it.

Whatever we may do, life will find ways to celebrate. Drug addiction is a celebration in response to stressful life.

Eulogizing role models (in any field) has a depressive effect on others. It never inspires. Every body has a right to celebrate without being a role model. Drug addiction is a celebration without being important, without being a role model.

Only the actual work done by the role models should be explained to the public.

Once we understand that life is celebration in love and joy, drugs lose their meaning. Life itself becomes enchanting.

To come out of the cocoon of stressful life, you have to reject the satisfaction, the importance of being successful, important. Then life becomes action, action in joy. You get release through all your routine activities. The need for drugs simply drops.

There may be others to whom life is not a struggle, are driven to drugs just to have fun, to have a 'kick'. Life is otherwise dullness for them. They are unable to have release through their daily activities.

'Kick' is the reality. 'Kick' gives a release from the fetters of 'me'.

Can we not obtain this 'kick' through our daily routine activities; can it not permeate our being?

Unless we understand this, we will always be running to have a 'kick' through drugs, drinks, power, sex, money or even through religious activities.

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10. Misery of others

A child watching the trail of destruction left by Gujarat Earthquake queried his mother. The normal answers could be:

(a) some scientific explanation,
(b) some religious explanation,
(c) or just a refusal to reply saying that such earthquakes are not possible in this area.

Now this mother instead replied that earthquakes sometimes do come and that such a natural thing can happen here also.

With such an answer, child's mind becomes unagitated. He does not see earthquake as something not related to him. Now to such a mind, you can give scientific or religious explanation; it will find the 'truth'.

Inquiry can always be with a settled mind; otherwise it is just a passing curiosity.

Tragedy struck the Asian (Tsunami earthquake) shores. Every body who had listened and seen was shocked and bewildered, reacting in whatever ways his mind was inclined.

There were those:
Who ignored it considering it a natural aberration;
Who considered the destruction as our scientific incapacity to monitor;
Who offered help to the tragedy stricken;
Who considered it as an act of punishment by God;
Who wanted to gather as much news as possible and show through media;
Who wanted to take off (loot) any thing that had not been washed away;
Who were organizing to provide help on mass scale;
Who were feeling guilty that they were unable to offer help;
Who were feeling guilty that they were enjoying their normal life,
while others were suffering;
Who were feeling safe that such tragedies were not possible in their areas, it was related to only those unfortunate;
And so on.

Through all our reactions, we were trying to satisfy ourselves, finding an outlet to our fear of death and deprivation.

When we become aware that we are deriving satisfaction (blocking ourselves) in any manner by looking at the fact of tragedy, we feel immense energy within us to deal with the fact in an appropriate manner. We feel one with the tragedy stricken. We feel as we have been washed away. We feel the pain and agony of deprivation.

When we are psychologically satisfying ourselves in any manner by looking at the fact of tragedy, we are avoiding the jerk of agony and deprivation, which the moment wants to give us. Be one with the fact and see the wonder.

Death reveals its secret to you, the individual, the human being.

Then what to do?
Just see what is happening not only outside but inside you also. When some untoward happening is there, we cover up our fear as it can happen to us also; we start complaining, gratified in telling the details of the incident.

You cannot erase your fears, whatever you may do. You will have to have the jerk of the fear as a human being as if the incident happened to you. This jerk frees you from the fear and connects you to the unbound energy.

When you cover up your fear by any means (even by making yourself more secure), you sow the seed of fresh happening to wake you up.

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11. Separateness is a myth.

I use industrial products and then say that there is contamination in the atmosphere. I use automobiles and raise hue and cry about pollution. I expect hefty emoluments or fees and say others are corrupt, who earn money through illegal means. I want success, position but deprecate when I lose. I want to be exclusive, important- terrorism shatters my importance. I have nuclear weapons and cry that others should behave sanely.

Can we see how we try to cut off ourselves from the negative aspects of any situation and want to enjoy positive ones?
Are we ready to assimilate negative aspects, that is, without reacting in a manner that the negativities do not belong to us?
Seeing the problem without alienating oneself from the negativities gives the mind space to act.

To see the helplessness of the mind is the end of the game. Mind can not go beyond seeing its helplessness (fear). All condemnation, deprecation casts a veil over seeing the helplessness in the present. Mind dreads as it entails the extinction of its faculty of seeking satisfaction. Seeing one's helplessness (that is by not reacting to the negativities) opens the door to a different faculty of the mind, which is total intensity operating. This intensity can take care of every thing.

Reality is wholeness; hence the feeling of helplessness in separateness ends the game.

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12. Goal and Truth.

Concentration on goal takes you to the goal and not to the truth. Concentration on goal energises you, gives you energy to achieve, to act, to keep you in high spirits. But the satisfaction (of achievement) will essentially attract lack in one form or the other to tell you that goal is not the truth.

If goal is not the truth, what is the truth?
It is realised when satisfaction in achievement is rejected. Moment to moment experiencing surmises to be the truth and not any pre determined goal. There is total concentration upon action, however painful or pleasurable it may be. There is no running away to any satisfactory idea.
The understanding is a spark that burns all notions, concepts, ideas

What is gained by understanding all this?
It is beyond the ideas of gains or losses. Truth can not be fitted into any ideas. When we try to fit the truth into any idea, the left out is also not non- truth. Hence the fitting is not possible. Truth is ‘what is’. All descriptions are fragmentary.

While reading all this, you may be satisfied that you have understood. This satisfaction will be broken to let you remind that this was not the truth.

But you are saying, it is true?
The words are true but not the ‘Truth’. This satisfaction in words is because you consider your present state as unsatisfactory and jump to the satisfaction given by words. Mind is working only like that. When you yourself see this movement of the mind of taking shelter in any thing to which it is inclined, you get hold of the error- you just become aware of the error. Once you become aware, it leaves its imprints upon you. The awareness is sudden and non-volitional. You are cut off from the movements of thought desiring satisfaction. Again this is not an end under which you can take shelter. You move in the world but your angle of observation changes. It is not the product of your thought. There is transformation.

You can inquire only; there is nothing to feel satisfied.

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13. Stillness and Action

In all the situations, mind pulls you down by positing as if you are in lack and tries to fulfill itself by
complaining, blaming (others or fate) or feeling guilty.    

Can one see lack desires satisfaction by some idea? Can one ignore this movement not by an action of the will but spontaneously?

Not even ignoring, just seeing the whole movement is the end of the game.

In all the situations, mind jumps to take credit, to give credit to others, to eulogise hard work, to thank gods,
to ascribe it to fate, karma and so on.

Can you see how mind wants to fix the situation to some psychological comfort in one way or the other?

Can you see in lack as well as in fulfillment, mind is stilled when it finds  no ground of satisfaction to lean on?
In that stillness, there remains  nothing between you and the outer situation. There emerges action to meet the demand of the situation.

This is your connection to the ‘whole'.

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14. The Zero Ground

Can one differentiate between (sift) actual comfort and psychological comfort?

Actual comfort is interaction of senses and mind with the outer world as it is. Psychological comfort is THINKING that something is comfortable, or was comfortable or will be comfortable. Mind feels psychologically comfortable in comparing time, places, persons, ideas, situations, that is, it splits every fact or challenge as a movement from lack ---> fulfilment. Just be aware of the fact.

Without psychological comfort, you are able to meet every moment fully with all your might. Psychological comfort limits your might. Without psychological comfort, you act from ‘zero ground'. ‘Zero' ground is the ground of detachment, the ground of wonder, the ground of uncertainty, the ground of witnessing, the ground of no-mind, the ground of nothingness, the ground of ‘what is'.

It is the ground of unknown, the ground of infinite possibilities, the ground of unified field, the ground of ‘wholeness'.

This ground does not recognize any lack or fulfillment. It is the ground of totality, the original energy, the source of all creation.

Mind can not know that ground. It (mind) is stilled in wonder. That ground expresses itself from moment to moment.

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15. Silence

You can not be silent in this world as the world is made for action, for noise. There is no need to have a desire to be silent. Effort to become silent is noise, friction.

When thought sees its inability to be silent, it comes to its natural rhythm. Silence is a by product of this understanding.

You want to go to play. You have some studies to be done. The conflict is the noise of the thought. It wants to feel satisfied by taking a side. When you reject play, you feel satisfied that you have won by selecting studies. When you select play you feel satisfied that you are enjoying.

Your action is partial in both the cases. In the first case, you are forgoing the joy of play. In the second, case you are playing at the cost of your studies.

Can you see this game of the mind? Once you see the game without taking any side, there emanates action, which is complete. This action emerges from silence. You understand the futility of being in conflict and solving the conflict by your action, which is nothing but perpetuation of conflict. To see the emergence of action without any conflict is to see the wonder of reality, the automation of the scheme of the universe.

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16. Living is a Verb

We feel positive in pleasure. This by definition makes us feel negative in sorrow.

But why sorrow should come?

To tell only that there is nothing positive in pleasure.

Suffering is only to break the log of psychological comfort. Psychological comfort is nothing but holding of physical comfort (actuality) as idea, as a thought. And holding of physical comfort (actuality) as a thought is only in contrast to some lack, to cover up some lack.

Unless one understands this one is living in a cocoon. Always warding off pain through psychological comfort, which in turn is broken by pain. One never touches the core.

We are attached to living as if living is a ‘noun’, a thing. This attachment is automatically broken to tell that living is a verb, a process, a flow and not a finality.

All the negative situations you encounter (disease, accident, losses, stress ------) are not due to your lack of knowledge or capacity or that others were clever enough to take benefits. These are there due to the fact that you were gratified in your life somewhere that these situations arose to wake you up.

It is not analysing your gratifications but swiftly watching the habit of oneself to be gratified, which is now expressing, ‘to be out of the negative situation’. It is this habit, which has put you in this negative situation, which is clamouring to be carried forward. Here, in this negative situation you have the clue to break the cycle.

What is the appropriate answer to any or all the problems?

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17. 'What is' is Wonder

Mind tends to conceptualise (good-bad and so on) every fact or challenge. It is impelled to conceptualise. Conceptualisation is superimposition upon ‘what is’. Mind is perplexed without conceptualisation. There are situations when entry of concept is held at bay- acute anger, extreme pleasure, stress, fear, sorrow and so on.

The energy rises during these states towards oneness; there is inbuilt mechanism to dampen it by conceptualisation. You can not stop it. Seeing the process puts ‘you’ in touch with ‘oneness’.

One sees one’s helplessness not with a sense of meekness but with a sense of wonder.
 
Through conceptualisation mind leans on one side disregarding the other one. When the disregarding is not there, the concept drops, you are one with the situation.   

When the senses interact with any thing (object) in the outer world and the mind (thought) is not dissipated, which means there is no satisfaction (sought) with regard to the outcome. That is, one is not connecting his joy with any side of the outcome; there arises complete factual understanding with regard to the object. There is a sort of uncertainty (wonder) in the interaction. This applies not only to objects but to ideas, emotions, all sensations as well.

Mind establishes a relationship (good-bad and so on) for its own use (satisfaction) with that object, idea and so on. This relationship becomes a barrier. Barrier in understanding the truth.

Mind always establishes a relationship with any thing or idea in contrast, that is, to cover up some dissatisfaction, shortage, lack, tension, anxiety, fear as if the thing or idea will take it out of dissatisfaction and so on. The release experienced binds us to satisfaction.

If we do not go to release, what else can be done?
Watch; understand that your mind always runs to the satisfactions promised by the next moment, period, the other person and so on. This implies questioning the content of stress itself. Mind is so much tethered to the experience of release (in contrast) that it dreads to leave it.

If leaving it is so difficult, why to pursue it?
Release will always be countered by pain.
Only understanding this programming will take you to the middle, balanced state. You can not do any thing except to understand the programming without any attraction of release.

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