1. Our human brains are damaged—deformed, distorted so severely—by propaganda, by the constant pressure of culture, by our ambitions, our sadness, our anxieties, our fears, our It is a fact that pleasure is destroyed and constant stress is put on the brain. When the brain is stressed, it is bound to become distorted unless the brain has the ability to renew itself so that it can recover after the stress is over.
2. If you begin to understand yourself but do not try to change yourself, then you are undergoing a rebirth. ----"Things You Can't Want in Life"
3. When the observer does not exist and there is only observation, real observation will occur.
4. Observe freely, without any distortion, evaluation, or want of happiness, just observation, then we will see that we are experiencing big changes "in reality".
5. The self is a collection of many entities, and each entity competes with other entities. The self is the battlefield of conflicting desires. ----"A Lifetime of Learning"
6. The true meaning of education is self-understanding. ---- "A Lifetime of Learning"
7. In our pursuit of knowledge and insatiable desire, we lose love, we wear away our feelings for beauty and our sensitivity to cruel things; we become It becomes more and more specialized, and also more and more fragmented and incomplete. Knowledge cannot replace wisdom. No matter how many explanations there are and how much knowledge is gathered, it cannot free people from pain. Knowledge is necessary, and science has its place; however, if the mind is suffocated by knowledge, if the causes of suffering are brushed aside by explanations, then life will be wasted and meaningless. ---- "A Lifetime of Learning"
8. For most of us, hard work seems to be a part of our existence; obviously we cannot live without it - get up hard in the morning and work hard. Go to school, try to go to the office, try to maintain a streak of behavior, try to love someone. Our entire life, from the moment we are born to the moment we go to our grave, is a series of endeavors. And effort means conflict.
9. We must avoid consciously or unconsciously craving the support and encouragement of others. Once we rely on others for guidance, we forget the original purpose - to awaken personal freedom and wisdom. Any authority is a hindrance. ----"A Lifetime of Learning"
10. Love has no boundaries. You cannot gradually develop love in the absence of love. You can only realize that you are not loving without any choice. , and then it can be converted. To deliberately create a class distinction between master and disciple, between savior and sinner, between the enlightened and the unenlightened is to deny love.
You create a separation between yourself and God or reality because your heart is always craving security and certainty. This separation cannot be bridged through religious rituals, deliberate practice, or self-sacrifice; no guide or guru can lead you to reality or dissolve this separation, because you have created it yourself. of. ----"The Book of Life"
11. When you really realize love, the self has disappeared. ----"The Book of Life"
12. The truth is not static; it has no fixed place; it is not an end or a goal. On the contrary, it is alive, full of vitality, alert and lively. How could it be an end? If truth is a fixed point, it is no longer truth; it is just an opinion.
The truth is something unknown, and a mind that seeks it will never find it, because the mind is made of known things, it is the result of the past, the result of time---about this One thing, you can observe for yourself.
When the mind seeks truth, it is seeking self-projection, not truth. After all, the ideal is self-projected; it is artificial and unreal. What is real is what is real, not its opposite. (What is the use of spiritual masters?) ---- "The First and Final Freedom"
13. Wisdom is the ability to understand fundamental things and things that exist now; and the so-called education is to learn in oneself and awaken this ability in others. ----"A Lifetime of Learning"
14. It is thought that makes happiness last forever.
15. Fear will only end when we understand ourselves. Education should not encourage individuals to depend on society or live in negative harmony with society, but should help individuals discover true value - which comes through impartial discussion and self-awareness. Without self-knowledge, self-expression becomes self-affirmation. and the conflicts it contains arising from ambition and aggression. Education should awaken a person's ability to be conscious, rather than just indulging in self-expression. ---- "A Lifetime of Learning"
16. But human beings are pathetic. They will harm their own kind, exploit their neighbors, commit violence and destroy. He is unhappy and miserable. He is the most creative of the species, the conqueror of time and space. However, he still lives in darkness.
The god he believes in is his own fear, and his love is his own hate----"Everything About Life"
17. I only teach one thing, that is to observe yourself , explore yourself deeply and then transcend. You are not trying to understand Gram's teachings, you are just trying to understand yourself.
18. Thinking is ever-changing and can be ugly or beautiful. ----"Life Notes"
19. Life is not a matter of an instant. Therefore, your seeing and hearing does not happen in an instant. Take a period of time, a lifetime, to see what you see and listen to what you hear. The truth will naturally be there.
All life is trying to bloom, so you need to use your whole life to listen and see.
Knowledge will not make you stronger unless it does not hinder your way and process of understanding the world.
To face life, you must have an attitude towards life. If you listen and see with a momentary attitude, or only use a part of yourself to perceive, you are already dead, and the life where the truth is not there is dead. ----"The Book of Life"
20. The so-called "living in the moment" means appreciating the beauty and joy in the moment without being attached to the pleasure it brings. ----"Reunderstanding Yourself"
21. Exploration and discovery of the inner world, and deepening layer by layer - it is not improvement, in fact it is letting go, and letting go of all wrong identifications and mistakes Climbing activities, after putting these things down, we can return to everyone's original self. Only then will our value be raised to the highest level, and everyone's perfection can be fully lived.
22. So what is self? The whole process of identification: my house, my name, my possessions, what I will become, success, power, status, prestige - this process of identification is the essence of the self. Identification gives happiness, status and security to the mind. If the mind does not identify with the property, can this identification cease? The source of the self is the movement of thought.
23. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity.
It is the pursuit of security that invites insecurity. ----"Reunderstanding Yourself"
24. The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
A constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. ----"Things You Can't Want in Life"
25. Being well-adjusted in a sick society does not mean you are healthy.
26. Love is not the opposite of hate, just as humility is not the opposite of vanity. ----"Reunderstanding Yourself"
27. It is precisely because you have no love in your heart that you keep looking for love from the outside to fill yourself
This kind of love Lack is your loneliness and when you see this truth you will never try to fill it with external people or things. ----"Encounter with Life"
28. Psychologically, we are all beggars, constantly pursuing others or other things to fill our shortcomings, give us hope, and support us.
29. There are two types of resistance. One is violent resistance. This is just a reaction to the lack of understanding of the existing order. The other is a deep and intelligent psychological resistance. There are many people who rebel against existing orthodox norms, only to fall into new orthodox norms, falling into further confusion and concealed self-satisfaction. ----"A Lifetime of Learning"
30. Our lives, from birth to death, are constantly adapting, changing, and becoming something. This struggle and conflict creates confusion and wears out our hearts, which then become feelingless.