When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.
Interpretation
Awareness allows us to see our thoughts as ephemeral and insignificant.
In this quote, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche emphasizes the notion that when we stay grounded in awareness, our thoughts—regardless of their nature—lose their weight and significance. Just as drawings in air are fleeting and insubstantial, so too are our mental patterns when observed with a clear, detached perspective. This suggests that cultivating awareness can lead to a profound understanding of the transient nature of thoughts and an increased sense of inner peace.
In practice
During a mindfulness retreat, this quote could inspire participants to observe their thoughts without attachment.
Don’t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and don’t dwell upon them. Give up your personal shortcomings, such as foolish talk, distracting activities, and absentmindedness. Train in being totally gentle in all physical, verbal, or mental activities. Don’t ponder the flaws of others; think instead of their good sides.
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment one thought or emotion after another like the surface of the ocean in turmoil, without any recognition of mind essence. This confusion is continuous, without almost any break, life after life.
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.
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The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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