When we are together as a group or when you visit me in my room, I can honestly say that my interest is not in whether you agree with me or not but only that you reflect upon my words.
In all these years of sharing Dhamma I have never felt that my position is to convince you that I'm right and you should blindly follow everything I say, but only that you should take responsibility for yourself the and accept the consequences of delusion you carry and then manifest into the world.
Understanding life and Dhamma is a subtle and often uncomfortable process as we let go more and more of the conditioning and belief systems we have been exposed to, often arriving at the question, ‘When everything has been let go of, who and what are we?’
This common and fearful thought is the obstacle to the very liberation you seek.
In the end, in every aspect of life, you are alone with yourself and cannot help but meet the consequence of continually empowering and reinforcing the delusion you carry. The result of this simply becomes deeper and more stubborn delusions.
So we take our meditation posture, still peacefully and allow our old story to run out. We see it, accept it for what it is, and let go of our emotional attachment to it as being who and what we are.
You will not disappear and you will not forget your life, but you will release the pain that comes from reliving the same moments over and over.
This, then is the freedom I speak about. Not from the world, but the conditions that make the world - your unique and personal world.
This is worth your greatest effort.
May all beings be happy.