Laugh with no care at all. Why take oneself so seriously? What hurt, what wound can be so big? When we fully well know that the only thing that really is the Truth. Can there be two truths? The truth and the wound. The wound has to be a lie. But it will continue to pretend to be the truth as long as you avoid looking at it. The more you look at it, the more you will see that the wound is just some kind of dressing up that has been needlessly done.
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Questioner: Namaskaar Acharya Ji.
Acharya Prashant: Welcome.
Questioner: Thank you. I tend to be a restless, overactive and anxious overachiever. The main reason for it seems to be that if I stop, I become in touch with suffering in me. I have understood that facing this pain is the way to self-knowledge. Even if watching means feeling hurt. Still I notice myself behaving repeatedly in this dissociating addictive way. It is a kind of an autopilot mode and it is exhausting. Could you help me with this? Thank you.
Acharya Prashant: This too is a story. This too is a very convenient part of the fiction that observation of the continuous, desperate movement will bring you suffering. No, it is not the observation that brings suffering. Suffering is inherent in the desperate and blind movement and the blind movement wants to continue itself. Therefore, it has woven a very convenient story, a cock and bull story which is, ‘If you observe what is happening then the observation will give you pain.’
