What is First, and What is Later?

What is First, and What is Later?

[11:27 AM, 5/17/2026] Shrenik Shah: The body came first, and we started labeling it as “I” much later (at the age of three).

And then “I” became the first poisonous seed from which the tree of duality grew.

We still do the same mistake now.

A thought arises first, and then we attach “I” afterward.

The anger comes first, and then we say, “I got angry.”

We don’t think that “Let me get angry” first, and then we get angry.

It’s the other way round.

All thoughts arise in the peacefulness of nothingness, Shunyata.

As soon as anger subsides, peace is always there.

Anger appears within peace; peace doesn’t arrive after the anger.

But somehow we identify with the anger and say, “I got angry.”

But, if we start identifying ourselves with peace, we would say,” I was peaceful, anger arrived, and left, and I’m still peaceful.”

Who is putting the labels?

The mind.

Meditate on this, observe your daily life carefully and you will reach the peaceful source of Shunyata.

Anger is not our true nature, it comes and goes; peacefulness is.
[11:57 AM, 5/17/2026] Shrenik Shah: Soil is always there.

People want to fight on it, and then it becomes a battleground.

People destroy each other and disappear; the battleground becomes soil again.

A farmer comes, and, on the same soil, he grows crops that feed many hungry children.

Peace of Shunyata is our fertile soil; whether we grow anger or love on it, it’s our choice.

Be the shunya state; don’t let the mind control you.