Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Immortality & Reincarnation: Wisdom from the Forbidden Journey by Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden





Thought creates a duality: the thinker and the thing thought. 


The world is movement.


It is you alone who, by virtue of the dispositions within you, is going to pronounce sentence upon you and assign you to such and such a reincarnation.


What we call “consciousness”, learned lamas say, is a mental operation.  It is certainly not a person.