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A Life That Is Seeking New Experience Is Self-Deception

by Cico (Chonghe Zhang)

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**Note: Truth does not always sound pleasant. If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, one has to be aware of the emotions or reactions that can block one from listenING ATTENTIVELY and with HUMILITY. This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, nor agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

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For most people,

Life is a noun,

Full of all kinds of images,

Ideas,

All kinds of verbal descriptions.

Such life is living in the thoughts,

Living by images,

By the reactions to the images,

The emotions confine the reactions to the verbs,

To the thoughts,

To the images,

And the mind has to seek pleasure from those images to keep the mind up.

That's most people's life.

Because the life is verbal,

All the things is verbal.

This is because the mind is verbal for most people.

The mind is totally attached to the verse.

The mind totally identifies itself with the verse,

And such life must be verbal.

The mind can easily get used to it,

The pleasure at one time,

But then the mind gets used to it.

The mind feels bored,

But the mind creaves for more pleasure.

That's why the mind keeps seeking,

Seeking all kinds of stimulations that hopefully can bring about some pleasure for a moment.

So the mind seeks new experience.

When the mind is seeking experience,

Wanting something new,

Something more exciting,

More stimulating,

But as the mind is able to recognize it,

The mind says,

Oh,

It's a new experience.

But the very process of recognizing it implies it is not new at all.

It must be known or else the mind cannot recognize it.

So this way of seeking a new experience is a form of self-deception.

The mind wants to seek some new ideas,

New thoughts,

New concept,

On which the mind can seek pleasure and get rid of the boredom or escape the fear.

So such a life is fully seeking,

Escaping all the time.

Such a life is in reaction,

Is in that new L love being in your autism.

Meet your Teacher

Cico (Chonghe Zhang)Amsterdam, Netherlands

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