Your emotions are always there. When something happens to trigger our emotions we may think something or someone caused it. This is untrue. Cause and effect are much more complicated than that. Don’t torture others by blaming them.

https://youtu.be/QByjiVDODb0

Buddha’s first teaching was suffering. If you’re alive, you’re going to suffer. Even when nothing seems to be wrong, we’re worried about what might be coming just around corner. Most people do not know they are suffering because they’re successful in the relative area of covering it up.

https://youtu.be/ykwbYVOhzYI

https://youtu.be/OUep2HD6Ies

https://youtu.be/Gi7k4iePRkk

Anytime anything occurs, if you have any thoughts about it at all, it’s more than likely a cover-up. Rather than see what is there we fight with it, or we blame. It’s about being aware or this, not stopping or fixing it. It seems to take a lot of sitting meditation in order to see this clearly.

https://youtu.be/_aea6TrHwzA

Anytime anything occurs, if you have any thoughts about it at all, it’s more than likely a cover-up. Rather than see what is there we fight with it, or we blame. It’s about being aware or this, not stopping or fixing it. It seems to take a lot of sitting meditation in order to see this clearly.

https://youtu.be/453_2g1Iyi8

This is an image to help us see what we have been doing. We’re constantly participating in everything, commenting on whatever shows up, reifying, justifying, and validating ego, reinforcing the reality of whatever is happening in our mind stream.You don’t need to conclude anything.

https://youtu.be/GV_AoCSo5Ro

“The mirage of duality” is a line from the Sadhana of Mahamudra by Trungpa Rinpoche. The apparent multiplicity of everything is the mirage. When you believe the illusion is true, it’s called delusion. It’s not about correcting that.

https://youtu.be/RbfuYEEc2Ps

We automatically receive all kinds of things: smells, touch, memories, thoughts, emotions. When something shows up we grasp at it. This creates a grasper and the illusion of a person, an identity. If you’re constantly producing out of the illusion you are fueling that part of consciousness that thinks there’s a self. You don’t need to get rid of it; you just need to see that it’s unreal.

https://youtu.be/0Ok8uoyLB_I

When your perception of what is right in front of you is completely free of the debris of your conceptions, preconceptions, opinions, ideas and junkyard dog conclusions, this is immaculate perception; no one is perceiving, nothing is perceived.

https://youtu.be/wn0y2Ww-Iao