How can you want something that you know nothing about?

You can sit and meditate
in a cave all your life —
it doesn't matter where you are,
you are still connected
to the social system.

You as a separate entity
cannot exist without society,
just as the rest of life
is very deeply connected with you.

Don't try to investigate a reality outside the framework of thinking. It is an exercise in total futility.

There is no such thing as a thoughtless state.

Our main existential problem is that what we think is important has no value to the system whatsoever.

It is not interested in anything like emancipation or enlightenment, and it is constantly rebelling to free itself from the imposition created by thoughts and images.

What religiosity and all other systems have done is kill your sensitivity.
They bombard you with their particular brand of knowledge so that no one else can capture you, and then you always remain under their control.

They destroy your living quality and any possibility of you flowering into an individual.

If you are not gullible and do not allow any godman into your system, he will have no power over you!

You don't seem to realize it's simply your power they are harnessing. Your fear is their only asset!

The
greatest
iconoclast
of
our
entire
civilization,
Buddha
himself,
became
the
greatest
icon
of
all.

What does it mean to be an ideal human being? The concept is abstract and entirely image-driven.

Based on this understanding you try to shape your behavior. You are bound to fail!

Those who suffer most are the ones who are so steeped in religious belief structure that there is no room for anything else.

We have to accept reality the way it is imposed on us by the value system, by the social structure. There is nothing outside of this.

It is not possible to create a system of thought that will address the general well-being of the entire human society.

We
don't
eat
food,
We
eat
Ideas.

The physical system is seeking something but it is not what you think you want.

All wants and techniques to satisfy them, including the realization of god or self, are in fact numbing you.

They are merely temporary painkillers.

If you don't know something, admit it, say you don't know, rather than transfer some unknown fear or justification onto the next generation!

Whether you use thought
to solidify the image
of god or money,
The effect inside your head
is literally the same.
You are still under
the burden of the
thinking mechanism.

YOU may as well MAKE MONEY.

The social structure is controlling you in every possible way.

The status quo is nothing but an imposition of certain ideas that you accept, and it is based on give and take.

You give whatever is needed to get what you want.

It is the Job of the parents to protect their children but not possess them, nor make them dependent for the rest of their lives.

Likewise when the children grow up, they should not be forever demanding of their parent's affection!

There is a functional behavior
in certain relationships, but
there is no such thing
as forever.

It is the mind that
looks for permanence.
There is no forever in anything.

As soon as happiness goes beyond its natural duration, it loses its capacity to address its own well-being. Then the system becomes faulty.

You have to understand one basic rule: What you want, everybody else wants too.

Since that is the case, there will be many people standing in your way to make it difficult for you.

People are always hoping to find solutions to their problems. There are none!

"What should I do?", is the last question any intelligent person should ask himself.

Basically, human beings are not able to face the very fear that they are trying to protect themselves from through their thinking mechanism, they protect themselves with an idea or an image.

Whenever something takes that away from them they feel exposed, vulnerable and as if they're going to perish.

We are all on an energy-draining course because the thought mechanism mostly seeks a specific end.

It is an artificial demand created by social dynamics, and it is taking a tremendous toll on the integrated system.

It constantly translates its demand into harnessing more and more energy and inventing even more ways to accomplish that.

If you accept someone else's expression of their system as valid and true,
and try to imbibe it,
you will be miserable for the rest of your life!

The only peace that can flower must come from within, from the realization, which is itself the unburdenment, that no effort can bring this about.

Therefore it cannot be about having ideas of peace or happiness or God.

The life energy that beats in each of us has much more intricate power than human beings are capable of unleashing through thought.

It is more potent than thought induced power, which is mostly destructive.

The intrinsic nature of life itself will not allow it to harness any power unnecessarily and will only do what is important to preserve itself, maintain order and an overall dynamic balance.

The thinking mechanism constantly tries to control life and it creates a fictitious future.

The one who conceives of it as reality cannot match it with the life that is unfolding.

So the conflict continues. You don't know how to overcome conflict so you impose an imagined reality to mask the one you are facing.

If your sense of self is functioning appropriately,
you will be singularly incapable of harming anyone.

Knowing the nature of the mind and the way one responds to life are two totally different things.

It is not possible to know the integrated order of life.

If you are really interested in the
well-being of the system,
you should know that
it is absolutely necessary
for you to step out of the way
for the system to work effectively.
You are a squatter!

You want to ask questions to entertain yourself and to keep the questioner going. This is nothing but game-playing, a form of entertainment.

You are not serious or hungry enough to feel you will die if you do not get the answer.

When the awareness gradually descends on you that any answers to the queries you are seeking are not part of your functional reality, you will stop looking elsewhere.

No matter how learned another person is, no matter how deep his understanding, as far as your own discovery is concerned, he will be of absolutely no use to you.

The sense of self keeps itself busy by trying to figure out how to free itself from difficult situations; in doing so, it perpetuates its own dominance.

When all avenues are identified as dead ends, it begins to realize that any movement in any direction leads to an infinite labyrinth where the knowledge game can never end.

Any movement with the hope of finding a permanent solution is an exercise in total futility.

If there is any such thing as truth, it is this — I have nothing that you don't have, it is just not possible.

I cannot be in possession of something mysterious or otherwise that you don't have, and I have no illusion of any kind about this.

If you are honest with yourself, you will see that you are not really interested in anyone else's life.

You only care about your own life. Your own problems and your own functioning.