The Saddest Thing

The saddest thing is people spending their lives without knowing their true reality, and then dying. The sadness is in seeing that people are constantly engaged in entertaining their minds, filling up that precious space of pure consciousness with small talk that leads nowhere.

Even spiritual lectures can be an entertainment; having our attention caught and held is like being hypnotised, with the assumption that we do not know. Knowingness is already present – teachings should only remind us of this, but often they can make us doubt, and so we rely on being talked to.

Once we see it, we wake up.