I think at the end of the day, I'd like to say, I mentioned something that was impressive during the event in Minnesota, and that was the statement, you can't go back to the starting point. It's useless. Again and again, I've been bringing this expression up. Let's do that if I talk a little bit about the first oscillating picture. The first oscillating picture. And that's the starting point. The starting point of the training, the cultivation of the mind, the cultivation of the heart.

[01:04]

This is a basic situation. First I'll send a picture of the basic situation, or the situation of basic frustration. I feel that it's quite uncommon for, maybe I won't say it, but anyway, not all human beings accept and embrace the situation of vacant frustration. Even people in great pain don't necessarily accept the way from basic questions.

[02:18]

picture, I feel, is the acceptance of this basic situation. And all further development, it is founded and based on basic prescription. We are separated from that with which we are most interested. Separate from the fondness of our life.

[03:21]

We may have to cry a thousand times to settle into the basic. Alone in the wilderness, lost in the jungle, the boy is searching, searching. The swollen waters and borrowing mountains and the unending path. Exhausted and in despair, he knows not where to go. We only hear the feeling to take a seat in Maplewood. Another translation is exhausted and in despair, he knows not where to go. To alleviate this sense of frustration,

[04:45]

Listen to the trip in which case. At the beginning. The beginning of facing. Our state of separation. We don't want this. We just want turn around. and flow along the vents, hoping that this flow will alleviate our sense of separation and frustration. Actually, we have to turn around and face the flow and swim upstream to the source. But we look for anything that will help us not settle into this basic situation.

[05:58]

To alleviate the sense of frustration, listen to something. Something distract you. Try to practice meditation. First of all, At the beginning, to start, we must face the frustration of it all. But we don't like this. So we ask for something to alleviate our sense of not being able to make any progress. And there are many things that we can find to alleviate this set of frustrations.

[07:03]

But as long as we rely on them, we haven't yet begun. We have the expression going up, entertaining, coming down, and converting beings. Or up, entertaining, coming down, converting beings. If you go up, partway. You just fall back down there to begin.

[08:13]

Or not quite to begin. You just up and down, up and down. You have to get all the way up to the top to be able to fall back down and begin again. Without the first step, just take the first step, the basic step. You do not have sufficient fuel to get to the top. Without the basic endowment of frustration, you don't have strength to get high enough to go back to the beginning. You can go up and make various intermediate types of attainment and become an arhat or a bodhidata buddha. But unless your effort is instilled with this Basic frustration.

[09:15]

You can't go to the level and then be willing to come back to the first stage. Some people feel this is like getting up. Just get up. Be honest. Second stage, by the street, under trees, scattered are the traces of the lost. The sweet-scented grasses are growing thick. Did he find the way?

[10:18]

However remote, over the hills and far away, The beast may wander, but we know it reaches the heaven, and none can conceal it. Another bird, a tangle of thorn bushes, a faint murmur of running water. But here and there are footprints. Is this the right path? If you want to pierce each node and tie it up, don't rely on someone else's strength. Settling into the basic situation, you transcend it.

[11:41]

Embracing agitation, disturbance, tranquilizes. Meeting every quake of the earth to defeat With alertness and relaxation, you can stand immovable. By understanding the origin of this disturbance, you can transcend it. Or at least, at this point, the second picture, you see the possibility of transcending the pain. you begin to understand the form of truth. It begins to occur to you that suffering is due to separation, that suffering is due to to the five standards.

[13:15]

There's no suffering. Still, we must, even at this next stage, we still have to make an effort. We still have to watch out for trying to make ourselves feel at ease, to assuage ourselves by telling ourselves that we're doing all right, that we're making progress. We still have to watch out for that. even though you have, in some sense, made progress now.

[14:19]

You see a trace of the pool. Tonight, right now, are you settled into your basic perception? When you hear yourself seeking for some alleviation of this panic, And you feel the impulse to avoid that state of circulation.

[15:32]

I really feel you do that. You need to be able to spot that tendency to avoid its basic situation. The basic situation has that tendency accompanying it. That's what makes it so painful. Again, if you can accept the agitation of trying to avoid this situation, you begin to set up. Giving up. Trying to get yourself out of it. But first of all, recognizing the impulse to escape. When you feel the fear of going upstream on a long island road in the opposite direction of the world.

[16:58]

It's there. That impulse is there in the basic situation. Now, the second state, if you have identified your tendency to escape from basic workspace, if you spotted it, accepted it, Not any longer hoping that someone's going to help you. You're now in a new situation. The basic situation is behind you and supporting you. Now you're in a new situation, a new thing. A new thing you have to start learning. Things have cleared up a little bit.

[18:03]

Things have settled down a little bit. We're no longer planning to get away. Things are still happening. There's a moment. A faint moment. In the first picture, the waterfall, Make me face lashes. Now to get the paint rolling. I'll run water. The first girdle of sound.

[19:12]

The first girdle of sound, you feel the origin of separation. Now your job is to be quiet with everything that happens. Surround each event with silence. You're already filled. You're already intercepted. And so now that things happen, just return to the silence. Keep still. Now can you detect the ,, not the first sound, but the running, thoughts, the emotional reaction, the ride, and see something come up?

[20:45]

You have a police. Trace of the tracks and footprints You see these track because you calm down accept it There's painful situation now that you see the charts and Even more so, now it's not a matter of escaping it, but becoming distracted and excited about seeing something. A trace, inkling of your total vitality, ordinary, from your honest acceptance.

[21:59]

Mm-hmm By the aid of the sutras and by inquiring into the doctrines, he has come home to understand something. He has found a trace. He knows that vessels are to vary. are all a goal, and that the objective world is a reflection of the self.

[23:21]

Yet he is unable to distinguish what is good from what is not. His mind is still confused as to truth and falsehood. and we have not yet entered the gate, we have provisionally said to have noticed the traces. One of the basic things that changes from the first to the second picture is that we've gone from thinking that the other has this done, to seeing that the other is a reflection of your own life. By accepting a situation, you get a sense that everything around you is reflecting

[24:39]

You are no longer powerless. Through honestly accepting your situation, you are no longer powerless. You are not harassed by the other power. You can only be distracted by forgetting that everything is a reflection of yourself. But there's still a little shaking about the relationship of this reflection to the self. You don't know what to do about it yet. Although you may hear that everywhere you go, you meet yourself. You are not it.

[25:52]

It actually is you. It is that. To do that practice, to practice that instruction with your actual experience is new to you. And yet you have the material to do it right before each thing that emerges from this peaceful acceptance. our basic frustration is a perfect mirror before any agitation and excitement about the mirror has occurred. Don't try to alienate yourself by grabbing either extreme view of what is appearing poorly.

[27:05]

Don't go for it's not you, and don't go for it is you. Finding this place between it is you and it isn't you will require further training to the ego's plight. So again, I bring up the dream.

[28:13]

The dream of the woman who learned to fly. And this wing pointed to the full moon. She wasn't afraid of her flying instructor. Because you learn to roll a vote on time. Again and again, please settle. How many times a day? I don't know. Settle in the face of frustration. It's from there that you get your strength. It's from there that the motivation to go all the way, to be willing to save all sentient beings.

[29:23]

It's from that place that we get the real fuel.

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