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Ego Is Born Of Seeking, No Seeking, No Ego

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. Listening to this talk is meditation. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without being stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, no agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already part of true meditation.

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Transcript

To end fear is to stop creating new fear.

That must be the first step,

Else fear is being created all the time.

To stop creating fear is to stop seeking.

When the mind sees the danger of seeking success in any forms and all the rest of it,

And also seeking pleasure,

When the mind sees the danger of it,

Actually,

Just like the mind sees a hungry bear,

The mind must take actions immediately.

That's to stop seeking totally.

When the mind doesn't seek,

There's no fear at all.

But to end seeking demands one's tremendous and diligent observation,

Because this seeking has become extremely subtle in its utterly individualistic and egocentric world.

The ego is created based on numerous very subtle seeking activities.

The ego is the seeking to the born.

The egocentric way of thinking and living is full of all kinds of very subtle and numerous seeking.

Can one end them totally?

Which means that can one do it now?

Observe oneself.

Observe all the seeking activities,

No matter seeking success or seeking something else,

It's still the seeking.

Can one observe that totally now?

No matter how subtle it is,

The seeking is the seeking.

Let me say,

OK,

I say that I'm seeking success,

So now I stop seeking success.

But stopping seeking success is different from stop seeking.

Stop seeking success might bring slight modification,

But issues are still there because the mind is still seeking.

So when the mind realizes these great issues of seeking,

One must put all the energy into the observation to observe carefully of all the seeking activities on the mind.

Not the details,

Not the seeking one by one,

But the seeking behind all kinds of things.

Meet your Teacher

Cico (Chonghe Zhang)Amsterdam, Netherlands

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