Is Being uncomfortable with Thoughts?
The true Being is never uncomfortable with passing thoughts; the feeling of someone being affected is just mind activity, and we can choose not to follow the mind's proposal that there is a problem to fix.
So, it's just to say, it's sHll like there is someone here that's uncomfortable with thoughts as they pass by.
There is someone there? Let's catch this one. Where is that? So, there is Being. Now, are you talking about Being, Being is uncomfortable?
No...
Okay, aeer Being, who was born? Who takes birth aeer the Being? Is there such a one?
It's just thoughts then.
Yes [laughs]. There are just thoughts then.
It's just starHng to become like this [makes a painful expression] when each one goes past. Then it feels like someone is affected by it, like someone is bothered by it.
By what? What is proposing that you have to fix this problem now?
The mind.
And, you're gonna follow?
Key Teachings
- Being itself is never uncomfortable - only thoughts arise and pass away
- The sense of someone being affected by thoughts is an illusion created by the mind
- The mind proposes problems to fix, but we have the freedom to not follow its proposals
From: What Can We Rely on To Make a True Report About Our Self? - 2nd September 2022