Shi Heng Yi

you can spend your time traveling this whole world always visiting different lakes and oceans but the way how you are visiting them is you drive on the on the on the coastline of it watch over it say okay that's the ocean and then you keep on driving to the next one which means what you do is you keep traveling the world watching at the surface of each of these lakes and oceans

I do think that if you just stay with the Pacific Ocean and start diving down into it, you will never ever again need to visit another lake or ocean in order to make discoveries.

So the point is that it is about going deeper.

Going deeper means it is going to give you an insight.

And so what is Buddhist teaching about?

To give you insights.

Into what?

Sometimes into your body, sometimes into your mind.

So what's the problem with the restlessness?

you don't gain insight because the monkey all the time is jumping too much and staying too much on that surface area.

And now translated, it just means that on an average day, whatever job you are doing,

You do it under your possible potential.

And also what it means is, it's like you can't really embrace what you actually have there.

It's like you are at work, you are supposed to concentrate and work, write down your emails, but all the time you're already like jumping around, making plans for the weekend, who to call or that you are hungry or that you are thirsty, what movie to watch.

This is how you behave when you're at work.

Then afterwards you drive home and maybe the family is waiting for you.

And now it's a good example, but the children or your wife or your husband want to spend time with you, but they can see very clearly your body is there, your mind is not there.

You're not present.

You're just not present.

So then sometimes the question is, why do you have to end the wife and the husband if you don't pay them the necessary respect and attention that they, let's say, deserve or also towards your children?