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To Understand Trust Is To See What Is Trust, Not Trust What

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, no agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

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Transcript

In many moments of life,

We have to trust somebody or something.

No matter what you are doing,

Who you are talking to,

Living a life among this world needs a lot of trust,

So to speak.

But what is trust?

What is trust?

It's a question we rarely examine.

But without examining it,

There is so much confusion about it,

About life.

Sometimes we trust somebody that doesn't deserve our trust.

We get cheated,

Feel betrayed.

There are so many fraudulent things happening everywhere in the world.

If we trust wrongly,

The mind keeps getting hurt,

And the relation between me and the world is shaken.

Who to trust?

What does trust mean to me?

To understand the trust totally,

Not partially.

If something is understood partially,

That understanding is distorted by thoughts,

By theories,

By ideas.

To understand something totally is to observe,

See it in our life.

See these common things behind all our details of life,

Like fear.

People fear many things,

But to understand fear is not to understand many things,

But to understand fear.

The common thing behind all the things people fear,

Similar to here,

We understand trust,

Not trust what.

Because no matter what we trust,

The problem lies in the trust itself.

Meet your Teacher

Cico (Chonghe Zhang)Amsterdam, Netherlands

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