All quotes from
Alexandra & Lama Yongden's book
What,
then, was that something that wanted to be agreeably caressed, satisfied? -- it
was the collection of false notions, of unreasonable propensities, of feelings
of a rudimentary sensuality which is disguised under the appearance of a puppet
named "I".
We are
led to contemplate the co-existence of two worlds: that of pure contact not coloured by the
screen of "memories", and that created by the mental formations (the
samskaras): the interpretation.
Every
action, either physical or mental, every movement occurring either on the plane
of gross matter or on the plane of the mind, causes an emission of energy. To use the established expression, it
produces a "seed". This seed,
in the same way as all material seeds, tends -- given favourable circumstances
-- to produce a being of the same species as that of the parent who has
transmitted the seed.
Dislike
is only a form of attachment upside down.
To
believe that one knows is the greatest of the barriers which prevent
knowledge.
Nothing
that exists is motionless, and that phenomena, whatever that may be, consist in
a succession of changes following each other with a speed which is far beyond
our facilities of perception and understanding.
In every
case it is a question of the meeting of two aggregates in motion, and also, in
every case, it is a matter of a sensation followed by an interpretation which
brings it into the realm of consciousness while distorting it.
We must
beware of ideas and judgments based on our human mentality, on our human senses
and of relating and gauging according to our measure that which exists in the
infinity of space.
If from a
man you take away the physical form, sensation, perception, mental activity and
consciousness, what remains?
There is
no real production, only interdependence.
Every
action, either physical or mental, every moment occurring on the plane of gross
matter or on the plane of the mind, causes an emission of energy…. This seed,
in the same way as all material seeds, tends – given favorable circumstances –
to produce a being – the same species as of the parent who has transmitted the
seed.
The
effect is never the product of a single cause, but always of several causes of
unequal potency.
It would
be better to consider the body as a “ego” than to consider the mind as such,
for the body seems to last for a year, two years or a hundred years, but that
which is called mind, thought, or knowledge, appears or disappears in a
perpetual state of change.
Whether
we are aware of it or not, the thought, the desires, the needs which we feel
for life, our thirst for it – nothing of all this is completely ours, for all
of it is collective, it is the flowing river of incalculable moments of
consciousness having its source in the impenetrable depths of eternity.
Consciousness
exists depends, for its existence, on the existence of other things which
produce it or support it.
Understand that it is all a game.
