Practices of the Bodhisattva, Ngulchu Tokme says,
If the inner enemy “Hatred” remains untamed,
Though the external enemy is defeated,
The hatred toward him will increase.Unless we tame our own minds, there is no possibility of controlling the external
world. The male drunk who staggers down the road thinks that the ground is
shaking and sees one thing as two things and two things as one. All kinds of
thoughts pass through his head: sometimes he feels happy and sings, sometimes
he feels sad and cries, sometimes he gets angry, and so on. But like the sensation
of the ground moving, it is all subjective delusion. The concepts that arise in the
drunk’s mind are all due to inebriation. Regarding the shaking of the ground, it is
said in The King of Samadhi Sutra,
When one is intoxicated by tainted chang,
Though the ground is still,
It appears to be shaking:
Regard all phenomena as delusory!Though external objects have no substantial existence, attachment to them grows
by presuming their permanence and concrete reality. It is adulterating dualistic
perception that imputes concreteness and permanence to things and then labels
them as intrinsically happy or sad, depending upon the subjective bias. The
intellectualizing mind generates the imputation, the delusion appears in mind,
and this mistake about the nature of mind initiates perpetual wandering in
samsara. For this reason, we need to identify with the changeless nature of mind.
As we recognize changelessness, all labels, appearances, and delusions naturally
disappear. We perceive that the mind is only mental projection. Then, through the
power of meditation on mind, freed thus of the veneer of dualistic grasping, we
abide in the space of the great dharmakaya of unchangeable empty pure presence,
released into the sphere of permanent happiness.
Great scientists have invented machines to fly in the sky, ships to cruise the seas,
microscopes to see very tiny things, and many other wonders. People think that in
this way these scientists have achieved greatness. But this planet earth (much less
other planets) has itself not even been completely explored, which is something
scientists themselves freely admit. They may investigate a given phenomenon
thoroughly, but there are infinitely many things in this universe to explore, and it
is impossible to examine them all.
In the past, the buddhas and bodhisattvas could fly in the sky. They could also
foretell the future: for example, the great Pema Lingpa predicted some five
hundred years ago the advent of Mahatma Gandhi. These accomplishments give
proof that they understood the nature of all experience. In the nineteenth century,
when Tibet was not known for having any modern technology, Ju Mipham
Rinpoche invented a small bomb and displayed its potential to some of his
disciples. He told them that if it was made bigger, it could be of some small