The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.