is what it would be like. I opened my eyes.
come up to me and say: “I want what
(Problems of the mind cannot be solved at the level of mind)
No, you don’t. The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind. Once you have understood the basic dysfunction, there isn’t really much else that you need to learn or understand.
Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.
you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive.
(Three options when the present is intolerable)
Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.
symbolic expression of fear and of the heavy layers of negativity that have accumulated in the collective human psyche.
(Presence as teaching — being over saying or doing)
It is only at this point that you are able to feel true compassion and to help others at the level of cause. Only those who have transcended the world can bring about a better world.
Everybody you come in contact with will be touched by your presence and affected by the peace that you emanate, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Your peace is so vast and deep that anything that is not peace disappears into it as if it had never existed.
But who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.
Without a profound change in human consciousness, the world’s suffering is a bottomless pit. So don’t let your compassion become one-sided. Empathy with someone else’s pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the ultimate illusion of all pain.
Raise awareness by disseminating information, or at the most, practice passive resistance. But make sure that you carry no resistance within, no hatred, no negativity. “Love your enemies,” said Jesus, which, of course, means “have no enemies.”
Stay alert and very, very present. The causal level needs to remain your primary focus, the teaching of enlightenment your main purpose, and peace your most precious gift to the world.
It is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that is the main determinant of what kind of future you will experience, so to surrender is the most important thing you can do to bring about positive change.
(Surrender as the most important act for positive change)
You cannot be conscious and unhappy, conscious and in negativity. Negativity, unhappiness, or suffering in whatever form means that there is resistance, and resistance is always unconscious.
Negativity, unhappiness, or suffering in whatever form means that there is resistance, and resistance is always unconscious.
Remember the deep wisdom underlying the practice of Eastern martial arts: Don’t resist the opponent’s force. Yield to overcome.
If you think that you need more time, you will get more time — and more pain. Time and pain are inseparable.
When you no longer need to ask the question.