Ordinary people cannot deal with ordinariness

 Ordinary people are those who do not recognise their spiritual nature, which is ordinariness without embellishments. Ordinary people are totally involved with things, people, places and sometimes ideas. Rarely do they talk about their true nature: it’s a taboo subject. If we do approach it, they quickly change the subject back to people, things, and places. They are so intoxicated by a programmed lifestyle that they have forgotten what they are.

 Strangely, we live in a world where this is fostered, as if we have arrived at a huge shopping mall and that’s it. At one end of this mall are cheap !“’bling-y items’”! and at the other end are expensive !’”bling-y items”’! … but it is still a shopping mall.

 There are suppliers to the shopping mall and there are wheeler-dealers behind the shopping mall, but they all end up shopping too! There are even those who write about it to entertain us, and they also end up shopping.

So how do we talk to such people?
We cannot.

They wouldn’t know what on earth we were talking about because their lives are based on conditional happiness – a happiness that relies on conditions that they pay for.

All we can do is be happy for no reason…they might or might not catch on.

Being happy for no reason is o r d i n a r i n e s s.

 Ordinary people do not recognise their ordinariness.
In striving not to be ordinary, they become ordinary.

 Ordinariness is accepting being ordinary, adding nothing.
This is the meaning of the two truths.