If there’s any person in your life whom you don’t like or whom you have difficulty with, just put that person in front of your mental eye for a moment.Now just imagine for a moment whether the person sitting next to you has any difficulty with that person....[Laughs]None whatsoever! Couldn’t care less! So it’s a mind-made obstacle without any basis in truth.And when we can remember that, we will see that we’re only hurting ourselves, we’re hurting nobody else. We’re making life very difficult for ourselves. The whole world does that. Everybody makes life difficult for him- or herself. There doesn’t seem to be any rational answer why we do that. But why do we make life so difficult for ourselves? It seems we constantly want to prove something that’s un-provable. Very often we want to prove that we’re right. Very often we want to prove that we know better. Sometimes we want to prove that we have real discrimination of who’s lovable and who isn’t. Why do we want to prove anything? What’s there to prove? Don’t we just want to be happy? With all that proving, we’re never going to be happy, because there’s always going to be somebody who’s going to disprove it.So what we can do is remember that the spiritual path means Letting Go. Letting Go of what? Primarily, most importantly, of all views and opinions. If I have views and opinions—and we all have them, of course—about other people, they’re most likely going to be on both sides: positive and negative. And then our love cannot be pure.The less views we have within us, the easier it is to Practice,the easier it is to Meditate, and the easier it is to Love.
