tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476507095312264072.post483381915511978963..comments2022-11-16T05:20:55.044-08:00Comments on Illusions of a Noetic Monk: Illusions: Outside Inner SpaceLee Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03454866285973693175noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476507095312264072.post-76943287069938050482011-01-23T11:24:34.279-08:002011-01-23T11:24:34.279-08:00"In the dream state where there is no object,..."In the dream state where there is no object, mind on its own creates everything; and it also creates everything seen when awake as well. There is little difference between the two states." SamkaraLee Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03454866285973693175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476507095312264072.post-83476671095226339672011-01-23T11:22:16.900-08:002011-01-23T11:22:16.900-08:00"The light of consciousness passes through t..."The light of consciousness passes through the film of memory and throws pictures on your brain."<br />NisargadattaLee Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03454866285973693175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476507095312264072.post-55202388107607989022010-11-18T15:04:43.733-08:002010-11-18T15:04:43.733-08:00Here's the entire passage from the Dhammapada:...Here's the entire passage from the Dhammapada:<br /><br />We are what we think.<br />All that we are arises with our thoughts.<br />With our thoughts we make the world.<br />Speak or act with an impure mind<br />And trouble will follow you <br />As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.<br />We are what we think.<br />All that we are arises with our thoughts. <br />With our thoughts we make the world.<br />Speak or act with a pure mind<br />And happiness will follow you<br />As your shadow, unshakable.<br />"Look how he abused me and hurt me,<br />How he threw me down and robbed me."<br />Live with such thoughts and you live in hate.<br />"Look how he abused me and hurt me,<br />How he threw me down and robbed me."<br />Abandon such thoughts, and live in love.<br />In this world<br />Hate never yet dispelled hate. <br />Only love dispels hate.<br />This is the law,<br />Ancient and inexhaustible.<br />You too shall pass away.<br />Knowing this, how can you quarrel?<br />How easily the wind overturns a frail tree.<br />Seek happiness in the senses,<br />Indulge in food and sleep,<br />And you too will be uprooted.<br />The wind cannot overturn a mountain.<br />Temptation cannot touch the man <br />Who is awake, strong and humble,<br />Who masters himself and minds the dharma.<br />If a man's thoughts are muddy,<br />If he is reckless and full of deceit,<br />How can he wear the yellow robe?<br />Whoever is master of his own nature,<br />Bright, clear and true,<br />He may indeed wear the yellow robe.<br />Mistaking the false for the true,<br />And the true for the false, <br />You overlook the heart <br />And fill yourself with desire.<br />See the false as false,<br />The true as true.<br />Look into your heart.<br />Follow your nature.<br />An unreflecting mind is a poor roof.<br />Passion, like the rain, floods the house.<br />But if the roof is strong, there is shelter.<br />Whoever follows impure thoughts<br />Suffers in this world and the next.<br />In both worlds he suffers<br />And how greatly<br />When he sees the wrong he has done.<br />But whoever follows the dharma<br />Is joyful here and joyful there.<br />In both worlds he rejoices<br />And how greatly <br />When he sees the good he has done.<br />For great is the harvest in this world,<br />And greater still in the next.<br />However many holy words you read,<br />However many you speak,<br />What good will they do you <br />If you do not act upon them?<br />Are you a shepherd<br />Who counts another man's sheep,<br />Never sharing the way?<br />Read as few words as you like,<br />And speak fewer.<br />But act upon the dharma.<br />Give up the old ways - <br />Passion, enmity, folly.<br />Know the truth and find peace.<br />Share the way.Lee Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03454866285973693175noreply@blogger.com