"I want you to examine right now while you are listening and watching, I
want you to examine the condition of your life. I've described it, I told
you what's happened to you, that you've been so dominated by wanting
something flaring up around your life, that's what you paid attention to,
something you're looking forward to. And you always forget that sooner or
later, you're going to have to pay for what you thought was going to be
free entertainment.
You see, it's a terrible thing, we might discuss this just briefly, it's a
terrible thing to get false values. It's a terrible thing to think that the
purpose of your life here is to enjoy the fireworks of getting involved in
politics, of getting involved in money making, of getting involved in your
own day dreams. There's always the morning after, isn't there.
But I want you to examine, since this is the story, the constant
repetitious chronic story of your life, I want you to examine just two
factors that are involved in your present way of living - struggle and
worry. The emotional struggle how to behave in a situation and you worry
over how you're ever going to get rid of the struggle. The constant
agitation: aren't you always inquiring will I ever get rid of this anxiety?
Will I ever get rid of the haunting? And deep inside you give yourself an
answer of ‘no'; and I'll tell you that answer is no, that answer of no is
correct the way you are going about it. Are you capable of ordinary logic?
Let's see, your life churns with struggle and worry. You're struggling and
worried all the time over everything.
What would your life be like if you ceased, if you just simply stopped
struggling and worrying over trying to find happiness? Now I asked you if you
were capable of ordinary logical reason - let's go over it again. You're
concerned about everything, aren't you, so anxious. What would happen to
your internal condition if you simply stopped being anxious? What would it
be? What's, come on, what's the absence of anxiety? Happiness. What's
the absence of worry? Quietness, peace of mind, use what words you want.
Ah, there you go. If you cease, if you stop searching, worrying over how
you're going to be secure, if you stopped it, what would be your state? It
would be _security_ which proves that you don't want security at all.
Absolutely not - that is the last thing you want!"
A Sparkling View of Truth
DVD # 6, talk 3 Blu-ray # 3, talk 3
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