The Human Predicament

Fundamental Expressions

By coining the idea of God and so on, one thinks as if one has solved the basic human predicament – ‘why something happens which one dislikes, which is irritating, shocking.’ The avoidance of psychological discomfort is laziness, is the fundamental error which keeps us trapped. We avoid, gloss over the discomfort of uncertainty, discomfort of unpleasant response, discomfort of unpleasant thoughts that hit the mid, discomfort any confusing situation creates within us. The avoidance of this discomfort is laziness, is the fundamental error which keeps us trapped. Can you see that the discomfort is only psychological discomfort? Bearing is automatic, once you notice this. Nothing is to be done. The whole energy is here. All techniques, ideas, devices to run away from this discomfort may give relief. You become attached to that technique, idea and so on. Energy remains dissipated in seeking relief. By coining the idea of God or by techniques, ideas one thinks as if one has solved the basic human predicament – ‘why something happens which one dislikes, which is irritating, shocking.’ The basic human predicament can not be solved by any explanation but is rested when you notice it. When the nervous system experiences this predicament, this resistance, this discomfort, this pain – what you do, you try to throw the resistance out of you mind. There is no place to throw it. Once you see this, the whole energy is here.