The Great Secret of Mind
1.3 THE FALLACY OF MATERIALISM: HOW THE ACTUALITY CONTRADICTS OUR ASSUMPTION THAT OUR HAPPINESS AND SADNESS DEPEND UPON MATERIAL ...
In the Lankavatara Sutra it is said, Outside, actually, no form is concrete— It is our mind appearing out there; Until they unde ...
shape (maybe it is actually like the inside of a coconut), so we should not be dogmatic! Each year and each season a new concept ...
have lost the concept of the door as a single entity. If we accept the human body as a single composition of its upper and lower ...
Things appear in many different ways when we are under the influence of alcohol or mind-changing substances. When drunk on alcoh ...
and even if we have the power of a king, we are not satisfied. Over time, life becomes exhausted, our youth is lost, our hair gr ...
categories) are like last night’s dream, then we achieve that freedom. Desire is the yearning never to lose our happiness; anger ...
to proceed is by familiarizing ourselves with the unelaborated truth—the emptiness that is the true nature of all experience wha ...
taught by Shakyamuni Buddha as definitive meaning. Whatever form we see, whatever sound we hear, whatever aroma we smell, whatev ...
and blood, filthy and loathsome. For animals water is merely for drinking, and for human beings it is for drinking and washing. ...
able to stand witness to their existence. If the absence of any living witness to our ancestors proves their never having existe ...
Who would follow the noble path? If seeing with our eyes and hearing with our ears were in themselves enough to establish valid ...
happiness depended upon objective material things, rich people would not undergo suffering as they do, but rather they would enj ...
predictable or invariable. How things look in childhood is quite different from how they look in old age. Moreover, what appears ...
Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva, Shantideva says, An ordinary person looking at external objects Believes them to be genuine ...
If its six sides are considered as separate, The basic atom would be sixfold; If the six sides are considered a unity, The unive ...
since both relative and absolute views are just the same nominal imputation. All views are only notional-conceptual because in t ...
The relative is beyond distinctions, Beyond the two nominal truths, And therefore any elaboration is redundant. The truth of ins ...
rejection to the qualities of the objective field because they have taken hold of the unchanging citadel of intrinsic presence. ...
mental processes, we exteriorize whatever is grasped at and apprehend an object “out there.” The one who grasps that object, int ...
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