Q4-19870718-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-reflections_on_the_buddhas_fire_sermon_part_ii-1545 Leandra Tejedor

Talk: 19870718-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-reflections_on_the_buddhas_fire_sermon_part_ii-1545 Leandra Tejedor (1) Start_time: 56:59 Display_question: I’d like to share about my experience with the shower water. Keyword_search: shower, hot water, suffering, mind, awareness, rationalizing, analyzing, wisdom, ease Question_content: Questioner: Someone in the shower uses up all my hot water. Larry: They use up all your hot water, and so what happens to your mind? Questioner: Oh I…actually, they didn't, but I felt they were going to. Larry: Right, so the suffering was you waiting to go into the shower? Questioner: Actually, I wasn't waking up, and taking a shower 3 hours later. Larry: That's what I call preparing for something. Okay so, there was some…some suffering, because of all this in the mind. Tell me what happened, and how did you work with it? Questioner: Well, it actually…it wasn't too much awareness. Well there may have been awareness but then…I just realized that they weren't going to use up all the water, and that just wasn’t…wasn’t…wasn’t bright of me, to feel that way. And the awareness, I just saw the situation. Is that…I wonder was I rationalizing, or doing, figuring, analyzing the situation. Larry: Yeah. Questioner: But is that what you mean? Larry: Well, that's another…that’s another, application of wisdom. That is, you were able to see the situation, and describe it to yourself, and that eased it for you. But what I'm getting at, where if you could remember, to see you were suffering, let's say you created a world, where this person was going to take your hot…your shower water away. Okay at that moment, if the awareness could be with that, with that, whatever it was, then that could ease it for you, independent of whatever else you do to help yourself. So that's the…the quickness that's important, is to learn how to really be there, as it happens. End_time: 59:10