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July 11th, 2010, Gary to
himself.
Q: What is the root cause of human suffering?
A: There is not one single cause but you could say that we are certain that we exist
as isolated, separate, individuals and this makes us feel permanently restless and anxious.
As we get older we tend to close ourselves off from others and so worsen our feelings
of being on our own.
But is this the whole truth?
Has language - the word - made us think we are fixed psychological entities that look
out on the world and are therefore separate from the world? Or if you take away 'the word' that is, your name and
your human identity - the roles you play, are you not simply unfocused awareness?
Is this awareness exclusive to you or inclusive to all? Is life more accurately put,
a changing, flowing, dynamic process, rather than a bunch of separate, fixed objects with fixed
identities?
For example, are you the same person at 5pm today that you were at 8am this
morning?
This is brilliant because it means that human nature and by definition, your life or
anyone's life is not fixed, but can change.
But you have to want to change.
What is it that wakes you up to the need for change in your life?
Isn't it some kind of awareness that something is wrong, you feel a discomfort and
something is nagging at you and it won't go away, so you have to do something creative to resolve the tension or
you will go nuts?
