A Chattering Mind

A Chattering Mind

Q: Okay. What you just said before about opening up?

B: Yes.

Q: That’s just reaching me. Because I have this thing about…

B: This “thing.”

Q: Ha, ha. A French-Canadian “thing.” Sometimes I feel open and I talk about
everything I feel. And then sometimes I don’t, because I feel if I talk about it, it won’t
happen. Like sometimes I have a cold and I say, “Well, I’m going to tell everybody I
have a cold and it will go away.” That’s the way I feel. But if I don’t talk about it, then I
feel sort of sick or something.

B: Understand: any given moment can bring with it a different way of relating the idea.
You can create the idea of a cold one time, and feel that the thing for you to do would be
to talk about it -- and the next time not to. Do not judge that you are changing with
respect to how you relate that idea.

Q: Right, yes. That’s great. I just want to share what has just lately happened when (--
--?)

B: Did it hurt?

Q: No.

B: Oh, thank you.

Q: It felt very good because it’s something I always think, you know, this chatter inside
that says…

B: Chatter-chatter-chatter.

Q: Yes, chatter… that says, “I want to talk about it.” But I say, “No, I don’t want to talk
about it. Yes, I want to talk about it. No, I don’t want to talk about it. Nah. Oh, I should
have talked about it.”

B: Sounds like you are having a very enjoyable tennis match.

Q: Right. So I just decided to talk about it right now.

B: Well, thank you very much for being willing to share in the manner you have been
willing to share within.

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Q: Okay. And also I was going to say -- Steve wanted me to talk about it, but I don’t
want to talk about it…

B: Oh, thank you for sharing in that manner.

Q: … well, it’s just that I hit myself on the wall, and I cracked my skull. I think it was
the idea you said just before, like you are forced open or something like that.

B: All right.

Q: And also I feel that I went through death regarding that thing, because it really hurt
me. It was about two or three hours that I was really in pain. It still hurts a little, but it’s
going away.

B: All right.

Q: So I think it falls in that -- I’m rewinding the whole tape.

B: Thank you very much for your self-realizations.

Q: Yes, thanks.