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　　Removing the Obstacle of Guilt

　　I don”t want people to feel guilty that they have lenchak. I totally sympathize with you because it is not easy to release yourself from this kind of lenchak that we have towards our own self importance. In one way or another, guilt is always rooted in self-importance, which is lenchak towards yourself. Yet feeling guilty that we are not doing the right thing is where everything goes wrong. Whether you are doing something right or whether you are not doing something right, feeling overly guilty is the greatest obstacle.

　　A Determination to be Free

　　We don”t want to merely “attempt” to be happy, but we want to be “successful” in being happy in life. We should be happy with the world “as it is,” even though the media tries to make us feel bad about the world. We should always find ways to counteract our failure, to be aware of how we surrender to the anti-lungta culture around us that comes from the tendency of taking refuge in the material world as a source of true reliance and salvation.

　　Within our own mindstream, we want to avoid losing respect for ourselves. We want to uproot the failure to recognize how we lose respect for ourselves by not making even the smallest attempt or gesture to be decent and good to ourselves, to the world and those around us. If we don”t make an attempt, we remain caught in negative emotions such as anger and attachment, which ignites a fire that burns us and leaves us in ashes.

　　My point is that what happens in your heart and chest in relation to your emotions going down the drain, has a lot of do with lenchak and not being clear about how to find freedom from the attachments that eat up your peace and lungta.

　　The problem isn”t that this happens and there is nothing that can be done about it. The problem is that you don”t recognize what is happening and you don”t do anything about it. Think clearly about this.

　　Since this is your life, you must find some “oomph” to raise your energy and lungta to the level that supports you and your aims for this life, rather than leaving your mind to spin in the direction determined by the natural occurrence of confusion.

　　In the end, the main thing is that we need to become free. People come with different problems and issues, but all in all they lack freedom. This lack of freedom and feeling stuck is created by your own mind, due to the lenchak towards the world, beings, material objects and ultimately towards yourself.

　　First published in Crucial Point: Spring 2005 edition

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