Welcome back my friends, my friends. Let us begin with today's principle.

Suffering continues because we cling to memory and grasp at experience.

It is an illusion to believe that the now can be grasped or

that reality can be clung to. Truth feels cold when there's nothing you can do about it. People feel the truth that life brings suffering and they hate feeling

helpless in the face of this truth. The result of course is great inner conflict as you might have experienced yourself.

On the one hand we pretend to accept that life brings suffering.

On the other hand we struggle to escape the feeling of being

helpless. Modern medicine ends part of this confusion and struggle.

As diseases are conquered, human beings feel more powerful and suffering is pushed aside,

but only for the moment.

Suffering in the form of mental anguish has not been alleviated, nor has the fear of disease and aging or the dread of death.

Upgrading virtual reality is the story of modern technological civilization. Just as the discovery of new means of mechanized death is a downgrade of virtual reality.

By mechanized death I mean things like nuclear weapons, drones, biological warfare,

internet hacking and all these things that have become part of everyday perceptual experience.

Suffering retains its grip

because you want to cling to good experiences and the memory of better days.

As long as youth, health and happiness are rooted in time, with good times being preferable to bad

times, there's no escape from suffering.

In fact, when we are young and healthy, we are almost intoxicated by the wine of our youth.

Clinging to virtual reality means that suffering is part of the construct.

When you wake up, you don't try to cling or grasp.

You don't store up good memories and push down bad ones.

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