Of What Use Is This Truth?

We can have a conversaHon. But just to start off, I feel like it is important to recognize that what we call guilt as opposed to say anger, it’s not the same degree, so it is important to see that, because what can happen is that some event can show up, and some anger can come, if somebody slaps your child, or something and some natural anger can come up, so that is what we call anger, so anger doesn’t necessarily need a message, it doesn’t even necessarily need a message saying: “Oh, that’s my child and somebody…”, is just very organic. But when we look at guilt, there’s a feeling of some contracHon, or something like that, let’s call it an unpleasant feeling for a moment, but it is always accompanied with an idea, an idea of doing and not doing well enough or doing badly, maybe always doing badly, these kind of ideas. So, these Grade B emoHons as I call them, guilt, regret, pride, arrogance, remorse, all of these are more combinaHons of the percepHon of a sensaHon combined with a meaning derived from the mind and these ones, these are collecHvely what we call suffering. Suffering is not just the natural arising of some sensaHon, because that is inevitable, the natural arising of sensaHons in this human existence is preZy inevitable, everybody will go through them, let’s call that pain for the moment, so all that which comes organically, naturally, let’s put in the box of pain, and that which needs a thought to make it that, cannot just organically be, it needs a belief in idenHty, it needs me to be something for it to be what it is, that is suffering. So, suffering is not possible, without there being a noHon or a message in our heads and by virtue of believing that noHon or message in our heads, we take ourselves to be something that we are not. And the pain is very fleeHng, it just comes and goes, but suffering is quite prolonged and it carries the baggage of all the past and all the stories of the past and the feelings of: ‘but I’m always like this’ or ‘the other one is always like that’. These kind of things. So, that is the disHncHon, and once you start to see the disHncHon, it is important to see, because you will then be able to heal in the way that you are allowing the sensaHon to be met with pure percepHon, but you are not so much buying the story, or the label behind the sensaHon or the message. Because what is the story of guilt? The story of guilt is that: I should not have done that! It was a bad thing that I did. Now, this I, obviously you realize that it was going to go there eventually. This I, are we talking about God? Are we talking about the Self? Who are we talking about? The one who should not have done, who is that one? And is that a true, existent enHty? Or is it just a fantasy?