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The mind accepts everything just as you perceive it, but it's not the truth. What you're seeing is just your own perception. The whole world, the way you're looking at it, is just your own dream. Mind is an actor. It accepts unreal perceptions and acts upon them as if they were real. But then it quickly jumps ahead to think about something else it hasn't seen, such as heaven, and keeps on gathering more and more unreal perceptions. Wisdom is a researcher. It looks into things it's never seen, examines them, and hunts for truth in them. Truth is the original power. It knows the point to everything. It lies within your own life. It permeates your existence. If you want to find the point of truth that exists in each thing, keep looking into it with your analytic wisdom. As you go further and further into it, ultimately you'll find a tiny point of truth in it, smaller than an atom. This small and very sharp point of truth can be seen only with the subtlety of your wisdom. Once your wisdom sees this point, everything else will cease to exist for you. The dream will disappear. All the acts you put on will go away. The thoughts that keep running around in your mind will stop, and your mind will become empty. The endless deciphering will come to an end. All that will remain is that one point of truth. That is the only thing that's real and lasting. Until then, in your unceasing thinking and analyzing, all you'll be seeing is your own delusions, your dream of what you think something is. So, let go of all the delusions and the darkness, and allow only the good to remain. Until you become a good person, all your analyzing is as useless as that of a senseless drunk. In a drunken state, can you look at something and know what's good in it? If you are walking about naked and unashamed, oblivious to what's happening or to what people thing about you, can you recognize good qualities and good conduct? Can you conduct yourself with any reserve, or modesty, or shyness? You aren't even aware of your body being naked. You aren’t aware of anything. You've abandoned all your good qualities and become lost in a state of delusion. When you have no wisdom, how can you know whether something is wise? You'll just come up with any thought that pops into your head, and then you'll start talking about it or doing something about it, but you won't know the truth of it. So, first you must become a good person. Once you acquire the good qualities of shyness, reserve, modesty, and fear of wrongdoing, the bad qualities will leave you, and you'll know what is good. Do you want to know what heaven really is? It's simply becoming a good person. It's not the clouded ideas you imagine about it. When you know true goodness, you will know heaven. If you truly become good, all lives will show respect to you. You won't need to go around advertising your worth. When a flower blooms and sends out its fragrance, all the noses that pass by will smell its sweetness and enjoy it. Honeybees and insects will even come from far away in search of it. In the same way, when the flower of your heart blooms, and the fragrance of God's truth emanates from it, whoever has a good heart and good intentions will recognize that fragrance. Now, do you need an agent to advertise that you have a flower? Is it necessary to boast about yourself? There will be no such need. That's the way truth is. It needs no advertisement. A good person will simply be known. It happens naturally. Therefore, the question that each person needs to ask is, "Can I become good?" It was in response to this kind of question that Prophet Muhammad told the people to "go even unto China to learn divine knowledge." God sent many prophets to help us learn, and He is still sending enlightened teachers and holy ones, because there's still more to learn. If we had learned everything we were supposed to, He would have only needed to send a few. These wise teachings have been given for us to use, so we can become good. That was the point in sending them. If all become good, the world will be a better place. One who keeps asking questions about why people have this fault or that fault will die with the question about himself left unanswered. But if he's looked within himself and found the answer to that question, the judgment for him will be complete here, and he won't be questioned after death. October 14, 1981
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