For a long time, a greater and greater sense of discomfort has been building up in relation to the absolute ground of being within me, the same mental foundation whose spatiality is something I relate to everywhere around me and whose absolute center it is found everywhere. I see it in people around me, in their discomfort and confusion in the same way that I have previously seen it in myself. It is there as a filter between me and others and prevents me from taking in the mental reality it creates that I myself have gone through but now also see in others. It hurts me and gives me a sense of deep discomfort in their presence because I see and experience what I myself have gone through in others and I can do nothing about it except to confirm their ignorance without giving in to it. It is like being in, sharing this spaciousness but as in their emptiness and despair of it, on terms that are not my own and without experiencing its innermost ground of being as a deep sense of authenticity and selflessness within ourselves. To want to reach the compassion it creates within us, in the peace and quietness it is, which our indifference to its importance in relation to our inner health prevents us from perceiving, and we constantly punish everything in our environment for taking away from us. It is to subject ourselves to that same punishment over and over again.