Look within
星期一 一月 21, 2008 10:33 am
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The only way to experience truth directly is to look within, to observe oneself. All our lives we have been accustomed to look outward. We have always been interested in what is happening outside, what others are doing. We have rarely if ever tried to examine ourselves, our own mental and physical structure, our own actions, our own reality. Therefore we remain unknown to ourselves. We do not know how harmful this ignorance is, how much we remain the slaves of forces within ourselves of which we are unaware.
-S.N. Goenka
We are blind to the fact that the things we think we enjoy spring in fact from within ourselves, from our reaction to those things rather than the things themselves. Once you can grasp this concept, a new consciousness can arise.
A new car cannot make you happy, your reaction to the car can make you happy for a while, but it is your mind that is producing the happiness, not the car.
With that wisdom, we can begin to train the mind to be happy under all circumstances.
-Koheleth