The world can make you tired. It can make you weary. It can break you down. It can put people in despondent states. And, how does it do this? Well it happens through the mind setting forth desires and then the chase for these desires, and the inability to fulfill the mind’s desires. And this constant struggle to fulfill the mind’s desires brings upon difficulty for the person involved in the process.
So, what’s the answer to that? Well, it’s not complicated if you give it a little thought; detach from the onslaught of desires because they don’t stop. So the hallucinating desire factory that is the mind is like a train station. Every time one train leaves the train station, another train going in a different place comes in and you can’t catch all the trains. You can’t go in every direction. You can’t be everywhere. You can’t fulfill all of the things that your mind thinks of.
And because you somehow begin to think that you should, or that you can, or that you don’t think at all but just chase, it leads to weariness, and it leads to feelings of inferiority. It leads to feelings of not doing as much as we can. It leads to a state of internal poverty because we associate wealth with what we have and what we’ve accomplished.
Somehow, somewhere, along our path we have to realize that peace is wealth. That these things that we don’t see but that can become a part of us are, in fact, wealth; and they are a much greater wealth than any of the mind desires that are created that we chase after. And, by the way, those who’ve conquered a lot of their mind desires, those who’ve gotten a lot of the things that the mind hallucinates because somehow they’re adept at it, or through circumstances they’ve become wealthy enough to do whatever they want; they end up in the same place as the person who can’t get those things. Because there’s no satisfaction in those things when you get them, they’re not capable of giving the desired results. The mind will say, “If you get this you will find peace.” Lie.
And, that is the point of the great liar; he sets up an illustration, he gives you a scenario and he says, “Do this and then this will happen.” Lie! And if we don’t see the lie, then we get caught in the scenario, we get caught in the scene and we get caught in the chase. And it’s only when we begin to realize where we can go and the way to go there that we can find a way to get that peace we’re looking for. Of the tens of thousands of trains that go through the station, only one can take you to the right location.
