Isolate the Source of all the Trouble
All troubles arise from within the mind, and only by isolating this source through keen awareness can we find true freedom.
It's very important that we isolate the source of all the trouble. Otherwise the human condition can seem very confusing. There is a body with pain and pleasure, there are emotions which are all over the place. You can have so many different varieties of emotions. I believe the Germans have names for emotions which are not even there in English. So, there's so many different names, different types of emotions. Then there are so many events that happen in the world, things that constantly are happening around us. And there is a mind with all those thoughts and all of these things. So, the human condition can seem very difficult to manage. It can seem very full on and we don't know where to start. So, to isolate the trouble into just the next thought, it's all. Hell or heaven depends on what you do with your next thought. And don't let a thought convince you that you do not have the power to choose God over the mind. God is not that unkind that he would force us to experience this mind's separation and not give us the ability to stay in God's Light. That is just not possible, no matter what the mind says. It may say, oh, automatic belief and all of those things. It is just not possible. So, isolate all that we are concerned with to letting go of the next thought. That's all. That's all. And it is a gie that we can only experience it one thought at a time. As you let go, all will be resolved, because this is the Unborn mind. It is only in your belief, in your identification that the mind is born, truly. Otherwise, it is just a set of sensations that are passing. So, everything is perfectly resolved in the Unborn. Allow yourself to remain in the no-mind. That's all. Then it's not that complicated, as [inaudible] one child earlier today, that the mind will make it all very complicated and difficult, and we have to deal with so much. No. It's just one thought. It is our refusal to let that one go, that puts us into the misery of having to deal with so much. It is our need to be right and our desire to want something that makes us then stuck in that perspective which is then constricted in all these ways. That's all I wanted to end with today.
Key Teachings
- The source of all trouble lies within the mind, not in external circumstances
- True liberation comes from isolating and understanding the root cause of suffering rather than treating symptoms
- Self-inquiry and turning attention inward reveals where all problems originate
From: Open and Empty: Attentive but Not Grasping - 26th August 2022