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00:00So, there was this statement in this book that said, why does one face confusion? Aren't the facts of life obvious and singular? But in my case, I don't find myself at a unified pace. I feel like my suffering is more due to the internal division among the self. The same person wants a good career, yet the same person wants to dedicate herself to different pursuits, all leading to different directions. So, how to surpass this internal division within oneself?
00:30See, what you call as the divided self, having contradictory desires in several directions, is not really a divided self in the first place. It's an ignorant self.
00:53When you do not know yourself, then the world rushes in to give you a sense of identity.
01:03But I don't know who I am. So, what I become is a kind of void, a vacuum. So, you absorb impressions from all sides because you have nothing of your own.
01:19So, here I am with a massive void in my heart. I don't know who I am. And the void hurts.
01:29So, to fill it up, I let impressions flow in from all sides. So, the ignorant self is the divided self. Don't say I am divided in five directions. No, no, no.
01:37There is this five-fold division because the I does not exist. If the I exist, it cannot be divided by five. The true I is indivisible. The real I cannot be a divided I.
01:55The true I is indivisible. The true I is indivisible. The real I cannot be a divided I.
02:10You must be a divided question. Even if I don't can be a detail. You have to add to this계 is indivisible for our second part to list attention.
02:17But the true I notice you have a Jedi. Now, somehow, as an engineer was the man
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