All That You Give To Others You

If You Look Carefully You Will See That There Is One Thing And Only One Thing That Causes Unhappiness. The Name Of That Thing Is Attachment. What Is An Attachment? An Emotional State Of Clinging Caused By The Belief That Without Some Particular Thing Or Some Person You Cannot Be Happy.

Let’s Suppose That Rain Washes Out A Picnic. Who Is Feeling Negative? The Rain? Or You? What’s Causing The Negative Feeling? The Rain Or Your Reaction? When You Bump Your Knee Against A Table, The Table’s Fine. It’s Busy Being What It Was Made To Be – A Table. The Pain Is In Your Knee, Not In The Table. The Mystics Keep Trying To Tell Us That Reality Is All Right. Reality Is Not Problematic. Problems Exist Only In The Human Mind. We Might Add: In The Stupid, Sleeping Human Mind.

Has It Ever Occurred To You That You Can Only Love When You Are Alone?

There Is Yet Another Illusion, That It Is Important To Be Respectable, To Be Loved And Appreciated, To Be Important. Many Say We Have A Natural Urge To Be Loved And Appreciated, To Belong. That’s False. Drop This Illusion And You Will Find Happiness. We Have A Natural Urge To Be Free, A Natural Urge To Love, But Not To Be Loved.

All Suffering Comes From A Person's Inability To Sit Still And Be Alone.