00:00If I do a good job and I get rid of all those things that are causing suffering to the
00:06best I can,
00:07and if I could attain the enlightenment of liberation, what would I then think about ultimate reality?
00:15Would I think I am now ultimate reality? There is nothing beyond me.
00:25Quite possibly, the question would drop.
00:31I wouldn't care anymore. I wouldn't care.
00:36That doesn't mean that inquiry would stop.
00:39Just that future would no more be an egoic threat or an egoic opportunity.
00:49There would be free inquiry.
00:51There would be truly free thought.
00:56So how would it be?
00:58It's like asking for an insurance, some kind of guarantee from the future.
01:05And the guarantee that one seeks is fundamentally about self-preservation.
01:12So just assure me, please, that even when everything changes, internally I would still be secure.
01:20So that's the guarantee one seeks.
01:22That's the guarantee one seeks.
