Q: What is Life?
A: An opportunity.
Q: For what?
A: To suffer or not.
Q: That is all?
A: That is all.
Q: What about all the things that people do?
A: Beyond any and all things,
a human's experience
boils down to this simple Truth...
He either suffers or he does not.
Q: I still do not see how?
A: Look around you. What do you see?
The rich are poor because of their non-stop insistence
to stay rich or get richer. The poor are poor because they are
constantly trying to cling on to what they think they have.
Businesses are stressed out about
what they should or should not do.
Relationships fall apart
and the two sides never truly mend.
Athletes go through a life of physical and mental
torture only to live a handful of blissful moments.
And as if this was not enough,
the budding legends dump all their innate talent
and begin to chase this exact same madness.
Q: Okay if you put it that way,
I do see suffering.
But I also see successful people,
happy and excited people.
A: You are not seeing clearly.
You only see one side of either.
You do not see both sides.
Q: I do not understand.
A: Yes.
Q: Yes?
A: It is true that some people will
always appear happy.
While some will appear to be in constant pain and depression.
But they are on one extreme end of the spectrum.
Q: What spectrum?
A: The spectrum of human experience.
Most people are in the middle of this spectrum.
They are switching between two sides.
When you see them, you only see one side.
Not that late after you take your glance off them,
they switch sides.
The happy/excited/successful person becomes
sad/depressed/unsuccessful and vice-versa.
Q: And why are people at that one extreme
always sad or happy?
A: I do not know.
Something within them keeps them that way.
Perhaps they had to exist for the other extreme to appear.
Q: What other extreme?
A: People who do not suffer at all.
They are neither happy nor sad.
They just are.
Q: How can one live at this other extreme end?
Can one end not teach or show its
way to the other or those in between?
A: Teaching does not work in this realm.
One is either already there
or they are headed there.
Q: Headed there?
A: Yes.
Q: But you just said that one end
cannot show its way to the other.
A: They are headed there not because
of what they are being taught.
In fact, teaching will make one stay put where they are.
They are headed there because
they are tired of not being there.
They are headed there because
they are serious about getting there.
Q: You seem to already be at this end of not suffering,
of simply being.
A: I am not there yet Fully.
But I have been serious for a while now.
Q: How long did it take you to be serious?
A: This information will not help you.
Q: Why?
A: This will not either.
Q: What is it like being serious?
A: What is intense physical torture like?
What is euphoria like? What is deliverance like?
What is death like? What is the first day being born like?
Answers to these will not come close to the experience, will they?
All that can be revealed to your curiosity is this ...
All I see is what I see. I just see.
All I see, I understand.
I understand.