Expert: Stuart Resnick - 8/27/2009

Question
1. What is Eternal Happiness (Krsna Conscousness)?
2. How do emails all the expert in the category of Religions?
3. How do I attains to Krsna Conscousness? Can you lists all the ways?
4. How do I attain to immortality, full of knowledge, and full of bliss?
5. What are all of the books?
6. What are the variations and differences of Krsna Conscousness? Can you lists or give me all the variations?
7. How many people are self-realized? Can you give me the addresses of all Self-realized people including Krsna?

Answer
1. If you want something, you have a problem. If you want something huge (like Eternal Happiness), then you have a huge problem. Much better to put down "I want," and just respond clearly and compassionately to the situation right in front of you, just now.

2. I'm here to answer questions about Buddhism, not about how to email.

3. Whatever ideas you're holding in your mind, whether it's "Krsna Consciousness" or anything else, throw them into the garbage. What are you doing right now?

4. If you make "I," then you have the big problem of wanting to get things for this "I." The things you want may differ. Your desire may be for food, money, sex, fame, immortality, knowledge, bliss, whatever. In all cases, it's still "I want," so it creates suffering. Throw away I/my/me, then no problem.

5. "Books" are words printed on paper with ink.

6. "Krsna Consciousness" is an idea. If you attach to ideas and want ideas, you make problems.

7. Your own thinking makes judgements like "This person is good, but that person is bad. This person is self-realized, that person is un-self-realized." You think too much. Put down your thinking, wake up to what's right in front of you in this moment, and respond in a clear and compassionate way (which means not just for "me," but for all beings). Just do it.