in our mind
we have a tendency to disseminate
police discriminate against
we discriminate between
mind and matter and that is why we
ask the question whether
mind is a product of matter hence
a matter is a product of mind
materialism say that
our mind is a product of matter
and idealism say that
what you see as matter that's only your
mind
so they continue to quarrel
and dispute each other just because
they use the mind discrimination in
order to look at things
but in the tradition of buddhism mind
and matter
are not two separate entities
sometimes they manifest as mine
sometimes it manifests as matter
it's like in subatomic
physics the element particle
sometimes express itself as
a particle sometimes as a wave
so to say that it is a particle israel
to say that it is a wave is equally
wrong
it is both
and this sheet of paper
it says the left and the right
and we know that we cannot take the left
out of the right
and the right out of the left you cannot
come and take the right
and go to bordeaux and the left to go to
toulouse
no they are always together you cannot
take them out of each others
and that is the teaching of inter being
in buddhism
inter being means you cannot be
by yourself alone you have to
be with us the left has to intervene
with the right
the left is not the enemy of the right
the left has to lean on the right in
order to manifest herself
and the right has to lead to lean on the
left
in order to manifest herself
so this is the mind of
non-discrimination
but if we continue with our mind of
discrimination we distort
everything and and we oppose matter
to mind left and right and so
and last week we also learned that
suffering and happiness they are not
enemies
they are suffering is made of happiness
and happiness is made of suffering
if there is no suffering there is no
happiness
and if there is no happiness there is no
suffering
it's like the lotus flower and mud
if there is no mud you cannot grow lotus
and lotus stay there for some time and
become the mud again
so looking into the lotus you see the
mud
and looking into the mud you see future
lotus
so suffering is like that
someone who have who has the capacity
to go back to himself and listen to his
own suffering
and look deeply into his suffering
he will be able to understand that
suffering
inside of him that carries with it the
suffering of his
father his mother his ancestors
and getting in touch with suffering
inside help you to understand
your own suffering and understanding
suffering
give rise to compassion
and when compassion arises you suffer
less
right away because you see the path
of of transformation
and healing if you have understood
the nature the roots of your suffering
and then the path of the path leading to
the
cessation of the suffering will appear
in front of you
and having seen the path you are no
longer afraid
you know how to make good use of
suffering in order
to make happiness it is like
the brothers in privilege they know how
to make good use of the mud
in order to produce beautiful lotus
flowers
there are one or two lotus flowers left
in up hamlet and a low hamlet
so so one of the things we learned
last week is that we need suffering
suffering can be can be useful
and we can speak about the goodness of
suffering
because going back and listen
and understanding and understand our
suffering
we give rise to the birth
of of of
compassion and love and when
compassion love is born we suffer less
right away
suppose you look at someone
even that someone has made you suffer a
lot
during the past many years
you don't want to to look at him or her
because because every time you look at
him or her you suffer
because you believe that that person has
made you suffer so much
but now with the practice
it become different because you have
already
understood your own suffering that is
why
you are capable of recognizing the
suffering in him
in her
and you understand why such a person
suffers so much
and that person suffers so much and does
not know how to handle the suffering
that is why he's suffering is spirit all
over
around and you are a victim maybe
he did not want to make you suffer just
because
he did not know how
he does not know how to handle the
suffering that is why he continues to
suffer
and because he suffer you have to suffer
you are the second victim and he
is the first victim of his suffering
so having understood your own suffering
you have compassion you have insight
and you suffer less and that allows you
to look at the other person
and when you can see the suffering in
her in him
and you understand why that person
suffers like that
you are no longer angry at him anymore
and this is the truth when you look at
someone
and if you can see the suffering in that
someone
that he is not capable of handling the
suffering
you don't blame blame him anymore you
are not angry at him anymore
instead you want to do something and to
say something
in order for him to suffer less it means
that
you have compassion in your heart and
compassion in your heart
the does not make you suffer anymore