Putting your house in order

Good morning everyone,

Here is today's quote:

The understanding of relationship, fear, pleasure and sorrow is to bring order in our house. Without order you cannot possibly meditate. Now the speaker puts meditation at the end of the talks because there is no possibility of right meditation if you have not put your house, your psychological house, in order. If the psychological house is in disorder, if what you are is in disorder, what is the point of meditating? It is just an escape. It leads to all kinds of illusions.

The Network of Thought, p 96

Here is my reflection.

So meditation arises naturally out of self-awareness. This understanding of the self is it's own action of creating order. Will meditation itself ever lead to order? How can it if what you are is disorder. As K says, it can only be an escape from disorder. The mind feels disorder and imagines it's opposite. And so we become trapped in the network of thought. So meditation is without effort, without trying, without concentration, and without purpose.

Best wishes

Robert