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Jerry: How can I let go of this continual agitation?
Umi: By living in a world of names and forms, there will be a reaction of grasping. Names and forms are the source of conditioning. It is only because of these creations, of names and forms, does attachment arise. Suffering and agitation are a result of attachments. Become aware that names are simply a mind creation, and forms are an interpretation from the activities of the mind. From this arise imagination of pleasure and pain, and so Awareness, Freedom and Love are blocked. The mind, in reality, never suffers, it simply imagines that it does. In the same way the mind does not have pleasure, it simply imagines that it does. Living in this imaginary world of the mind, is the source of agitation and suffering. This is the purpose of watching Çöof looking in. In simply watching Çölooking in, the link between the senses and the mind dissolves, it is not that the perceiving ceases, but the discriminating, the separating ceases Çöthe thoughts, the imagining, the creating of the false ceases. When there are no thoughts, simply watching, then there is no sense information for the mind to build on. When there is no sense information, there is no more desire Çönames and forms dissolve. And when there are no more names and form, there is no agitation. There is only THIS. Love Umi |


