George Saunders
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think it's the way they are.
The way?
I don't know.
I don't know enough about it.
It's the way things are.
But you can be out of alignment with the way things are.
Of course.
Yeah, that's sin, as we have said.
Truth just means, from my point of view, what's happening right now.
But also with a dose of skepticism about the way my mind answered that question.
I read a beautiful quote by Trungpa Rinpoche.
He said, everything that you feel and enjoy and hate and crave, he said, it's all memory.
So a certain loose relation to appearances that says this is all a dream or it's all a form of memory that's happening.
So let's not get too attached to the way things appear.
And in our actions, let's factor that in.
So truth is just, well, let's say what's not truth.
What's not truth is your mind stream in a given situation.
You walk into a party and you feel judged.
You feel judged.