April 2018

HOW TO END SUFFERING
     We don't want to see our suffering. We want to hide from it, which is why it continues. You'll understand what you’re hearing maybe thirty years from now.
     When someone makes some kind of a sour, frightening remark about anything whatever, I want you to notice how you immediately take it as a necessity for you to start worrying and — this is the most important point — for you to start thinking about it and to chatter with them about.
     “Oh, maybe sugar cane will go up,” for example. See, you start chattering with them about it. You watch how you immediately get dragged into the trap. And it's happened to all of you in this room a dozen times today already.
     But you watch your reaction, how anyone can say anything — about the market maybe — blab, blab, blab! You could have had your mind to yourself. You could have kept your spirit to yourself but you fell into their evil trap — evil being unconsciousness, evil being fakery, being pretense.
     When you start to get normal in even a small way, the world will call that normality abnormal.
     Exercise: Answer YES or NO. This helps you understand your own mind. Mental blabber-mouthery prevents understanding.