Don’t be unnatural, don’t try to fight with nature

Buddha says: RECEIVING ALL OPINIONS EQUALLY.... Without any prejudice, without any opinion already arrived at, without any a priori.... Just listen to, and watch, all kinds of things. Be a pure mirror -- that is meditation. And without haste, because if you are in a hurry you will jump upon the conclusion. You are not really concerned with truth, you are more concerned with a conclusion, because the conclusion gives comfort, the conclusion gives you a security, the conclusion makes you feel that you know. It covers up your ignorance, it makes you feel sure and certain.

Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow the law, follow the natural course. Don’t be unnatural, don’t try to fight with nature — stop being a fighter. Learn how to relax with nature, learn to let go. Flow with nature, allow nature to possess you totally. By “nature” he means dhamma, tao, the ultimate nature of things, the universal law. Do these two things, and you will free yourself from desire and desire will disappear. Meditate and let go. This is the path, the only path… and desire disappears on its own accord.

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