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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] has the appropriate shape and performs the function of going here and there, transporting people and so forth you have to see that first. The label car comes after that. First you see the base; then you see the car. You see the car after you have applied the label. Therefore, it is a hallucination. Whatever you see go by a person, a cat, a dog, a motorcycle it works the same way. Under normal circumstances, when we do not analyze what we see, when a car goes by it looks as if either the base itself is the car or there s a car on that base, and that that s what s going by. This is a complete hallucination. There s no car there, just as there s no A on that configuration of three lines. The car exists but it s not there. It s the same thing with the A. When we look at the A and do not analyze, do not meditate, it looks page 55 Lama Yeshe Wi sdom Archive: vi rtue and reali ty as if the A is there, on that pattern. That too is a complete hallucination. That is the object to be refuted the A that is there not merely imputed by the mind. An A that if you look for it can be found. That s the object of refutation; that s what we have to realize is empty. And that emptiness is the ultimate nature of the A. The reason that seeing an A on the base is a false view is that if you try to find precisely where on each of the three lines it is (/\-), you can t find it. And when you look for it on the three lines assembled (A), you can t find it there either. Each piece is not A. Nor is the assembled pattern, because that is the base to be labelled A. By analyzing in this way, you can recognize your everyday hallucinations, your false view, and understand what you have to realize as empty. What emptiness means. Analysis makes it clear. Practicing mindfulness of this, meditating on this, helps you to control your emotional mind. It becomes almost impossible for emotional thoughts, such as attachment and anger, to arise. That means you stop motivating karma, the cause of samsara, the cause of the lower realms. Thus it becomes incredible protection, a great source of happiness and peace, and the cause of liberation and enlightenment for yourself and all other sentient beings. By developing this wisdom and practicing bodhicitta, you yourself can attain enlightenment and lead all other sentient beings to enlightenment as well. Therefore, if you really want to practice Dharma, meditate, and see some development in your life, if you want to clarify and deepen your understanding of emptiness and bring yourself closer to realizing it, these techniques might help, even though they don t utilize philosophical concepts, the four-point analysis and so forth. By practicing these techniques, you can see more clearly how the mind is not I, which is what many people think. Many things become clear. page 56 Lama Yeshe Wi sdom Archive: vi rtue and reali ty Practicing the Good Heart he practice of compassion, the good heart, is incredibly important. We really need compassion. Compassion is the source of all our happiness. TEvery single happiness that you experience in your life, every single comfort and enjoyment of your daily life, as well as the everlasting happiness of liberation and the bliss of highest enlightenment, comes from bodhicitta. The root of bodhicitta is great compassion. Thus, whatever happiness you experience derives from great compassion. Then, your bringing happiness to all sentient beings the happiness of this life, the happiness of future lives, the everlasting happiness of liberation and enlightenment all depends upon your having compassion for yourself. It all has to come from your own compassion. Therefore, compassion is the most important human quality in which you can educate your mind. When do we need compassion? In every life situation, you need compassion. When you live with your family, you need compassion. Without compassion, your family life is full of problems and suffering. When you do business, you need compassion. Otherwise you experience so much frustration, unhappiness and dissatisfaction. If you re a doctor or a nurse working in a hospital you need compassion. If you don t have compassion, your job becomes boring, tiring, exhausting and uninteresting because you are [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |