Talk Takeaways
Stop making life so hard for yourself and others. Stop believing that it is other people and circumstances that make life hard on you.
We go to war with people whenever they deny us something that we think we are owed.
Do your solutions bring an end to having enemies? If they did, the world would have stopped making war long ago.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The moment that you identify with a desire, you will encounter the exact opposite of that desire.
Ambition appears whenever there is a denial of what was desired. Ambition is a movement meant to restore a lost sense of self. Ambition is inseparable from identifying with a new image. Ambition is loveless because it begins with fear.
Every image requires an image-maker. And every image-maker requires something outside of itself to compare itself to.
Every momentary sense of being fulfilled is replaced with a sense that something is missing. At which point the mind poses the question, "Now what am I going to do?"
Real life never threatens who you really are. Only the sense of self that lives in imagination can feel threatened by life.
The moment that you feel is threatening you has actually come to give you something to see about yourself.
The temptation is always to complete yourself. It is desire that tells you what you must do in order to be fulfilled. Desire itself is an unsuspected form an emptiness.
The fear of any time to come is the fear of inadequacy. Fear tries to find what it thinks it needs in order to feel adequate to the moment. Who you really are is already sufficient to the moment.
To be, or not to be? If you want to be, then you cannot allow fear to dictate how you meet the moment.
You cannot have a thought about what you want without there also being a fear that you will not obtain it.
Use the disturbance to see the nature that is identified with a time to come. Then you step out of time and into something that is truly timeless.
The answer is always inherent in the seeing. Just seeing -- and not doing -- will be an uncomfortable emptiness to the nature that always needs to provide itself with another plan in order to save itself.
Learn to see the difference between what I want, and what I am.
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