Ignorance May Be Bliss, But It Does

Somewhere In This Process You Will Come Face-to-face With The Sudden And Shocking Realization That You Are Completely Crazy. Your Mind Is A Shrieking Gibbering Madhouse On Wheels Barreling Pell-mell Down The Hill Utterly Out Of Control And Hopeless. No Problem. You Are Not Crazier Than You Were Yesterday. It Has Always Been This Way And You Just Never Noticed. You Are Also No Crazier Than Everybody Else Around You. The Only Real Difference Is That You Have Confronted The Situation They Have Not.

By Silencing The Mind, We Can Experience Real Peace. As Long As Various Kinds Of Thoughts Agitate The Brain, We Don't Experience 100 Percent Peace.

Due To Our Feelings Arising From Contact, We Think And We Rationalize, Conceptualize, Theorize, Philosophize And Speculate. Because Of The Feeling Arising From The Six Senses, We Increase Our Desire; We Come To Wrong Views And Wrong Beliefs. We Recall Our Past Sights, Smells, Sounds, Tastes, Touches And Ideas And Build Up More Desires, Thoughts, Concepts, Beliefs, Ideas, Theories And Philosophies.

Discipline Is A Difficult Word For Most Of Us. It Conjures Up Images Of Somebody Standing Over You With A Stick, Telling You That You're Wrong. But Self-discipline Is Different. It's The Skill Of Seeing Through The Hollow Shouting Of Your Own Impulses And Piercing Their Secret.

The You That Goes In One Side Of The Meditation Experience Is Not The Same You That Comes Out The Other Side.