Chatting with Oneself
From birth to old age to death, many people live their lives following a certain pattern: Debuting at birth. Learning deemed top priority. Falling in love. Wandering in the workplace. Joining in and dissolution of marriage. Raising children. Physical deterioration. Succumbing to disease. Portrait hanging on the wall. The majority of people live in accordance with this pattern. We are all living inside this frame, similarly blind, bewildered, twisted, distorted, frustrated, experiencing good or bad times, facing slander… All one’s life, one struggles. After awakening, I had a realization: “People are just playing house!” Question: “This life of yours, preaching the dharma to help deliver sentient beings, writing of all these books, and spiritual cultivation - is it playing house?” I replied: “Yes. While playing house, I know fully well at the same time that I am playing house.”