Er zijn allicht vragen over wat ik bedoel met de 'de-programmering' van de 'mind'. Mogelijk geeft volgend citaat uit: "Buddhism Explained" door Laurence-Khantipalo Mills enige duidelijkheid.

"...the prison of unknowing must be shattered. Then with unlimited transcendental insight any problem to which the mind is turned will be understood in all its details and without any uncertainty or obscurity. Such an insight is called destruction of the taints, for these 'taints' spread themselves, infect, flow into all thought, and distort perception. The first taint is that of sensual pleasure: desiring always the pleasures of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and thought while rejecting everything which opposes selfish pleasure, truly characterizes a tainted way of living. The second is the taint of continued existence: ever craving for life after life, the desire to go on and on, without, of course, wanting to experience the accompanying pain of birth, sickness, old age, and death. This is the unsatisfactory nature of all sensual pleasures. The third taint is really the fundamental one of unknowing, or rather, of knowing wrongly or partially, of interpreting existence in a muddled way due precisely to the presence of this veil of unknowing in the mind..."

Ik begrijp ook dat mensen mijn zoektocht als die van een rusteloze natuur ervaren. Daar wil ik niet tegenin gaan: "... a knowledge that things are somehow not right and that circumstances ever rolling on as they are experienced through this body, give no lasting peace and somehow fail to satisfy. This illness of life which is not so hard to perceive, is called in the Buddha's teaching: dukkha (unsatisfactoriness).

De echte 'peace in mind' hangt niet af van een plaats of een tijd. Wat ik thuis niet vond, zal ik hier ook niet vinden. Hier, in Azie, kan ik echter wel leven zonder direct in de kansarmoede te vallen.