What You Want Isn’t Out There

Faith · The First Aspiration | S1-EP08 (English) Is it this thing I want? Or the feeling this thing gives me? From a bowl of noodles to the wish to be loved, this teaching turns toward feeling, seeking, and the practice of noticing one wanting. “When you have it, use it. When you don’t, you are still at ease.” Teaching and English narration: Shi Huijing — personally recorded. Read the complete source teaching: https://waken.org/en/view/papers/S1/d... Chinese source: https://waken.org/zh/view/papers/S1/d... Chapters 00:00 The same bowl of noodles 01:07 Why turn inward? 02:24 Vedanā — feeling 02:44 One: “delicious” isn’t in the noodles 03:53 Two: both sides are moving 05:13 Three: the more you seek, the more you lose 06:34 Bring the mind back 07:13 The small bird and its own ground 08:09 Be a lamp unto yourself 08:40 This is not “want nothing” 09:44 The treasure you already have 10:18 Tomorrow: catch one wanting 11:14 Next time Waken Temple: @WakenTemple — 第一季「信・初發心」：每一集對應 waken.org 上的一篇論文，影片是入口，論文是深處。 Season 1 · The First Aspiration: each episode is paired with one paper on waken.org. The video is the doorway; the paper goes deeper. Waken Temple｜覺燈山 威光禪寺 佛法教學，一集講一個道理，講給坐在你身邊的人聽。經典引文以漢傳大藏經為本，白話講解，不立宗派門戶。 Buddhist teaching in plain language, one idea per episode, spoken the way you would talk to someone sitting beside you. Scriptural quotations follow the Chinese Buddhist canon; explanations are without sectarian boundaries. 講述 Narration：釋慧鏡 Shi Huijing 畫面與配樂以 AI 輔助工具製作；聲音為本人親錄，非合成。 Illustrations and music were produced with AI-assisted tools. The voice is the narrator's own, not synthetic. 佛典翻譯與義疏 Canon translations and commentaries：https://waken.org 威光禪寺 Waken Temple：https://www.wakentemple.org #Buddhism #Dharma #佛法 #WakenTemple