the level of your thinking, you will find a great deal of
resistance in the form of judgment, discontent, and mental
projectionawayfromtheNow.Ontheemotionallevel,there
will be an undercurrent of unease, tension, boredom, or
nervousness. Both are aspects of the mind in its habitual
resistancemode.
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Carl Jungtellsinoneof his booksof aconversationhehad
withaNativeAmericanchiefwhopointedouttohim thatin
his perception most white people have tense faces, staring
eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: "They are always
seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites
alwayswantsomething.Theyarealwaysuneasyandrestless.
Wedon’tknowwhattheywant.Wethinktheyaremad."
Theundercurrentofconstantuneasestartedlongbefore
the rise of Western industrial civilization, of course, but in
Western civilization, which now covers almost the entire
globe, including most of the East, it manifests in an
unprecedentedlyacute form. It was alreadythereat thetime
ofJesus,anditwasthere 60 oyearsbeforethatatthetimeof
Buddha,andlongbeforethat.Whyareyoualwaysanxious?
Jesusaskedhisdisciples."Cananxiousthoughtaddasingle
day to your life?" And the Buddha taught that the root of
sufferingistobefoundinourconstantwantingandcraving.
Resistance to the Now as a collective dysfunction is
intrinsically connected to loss of awareness of Being and
forms the basis of our dehumanized industrial civilization.
Freud, by the way, also recognized the existence of this
undercurrent of unease and wrote about it in his book
CivilizationandItsDiscontents,buthedidnotrecognizethe
true root of the unease and failed to realize that freedom
fromitispossible.Thiscollectivedysfunctionhascreated a
veryunhappyandextraordinarilyviolentcivilizationthathas
become athreat not only toitself but also to all life on the