Question : There is a state the other is in, there is a state that I think the other is in, there is a state the other thinks that I am in. What is then an appropriate action?
Speaker : When one is in a mental state, it is never a mental state, it is the reality. It is more than the reality, it is the absolute truth. A mental state would not be the same mental state were it to be known as just a mental state. In the moment of anger, is anger just a mental state. What is anger at that moment?
Listener 1 : It is the reality.
Speaker : Who is saying this that there is a mental state that I am in?
Listener 1 : Somebody after that sate.
Speaker : This is a memory. The question is- what is an appropriate action? This question itself is the appropriate action, were it come at that point itself. Nothing else is appropriate. This question is appropriate. It is just what is needed. But let it arise then. When? Whenever one is in that mental state, and that is not any one particular mental state.
