Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche - The Void Nature of Thoughts
What we normally call the mind is the deluded mind, a
turbulent vortex of thoughts whipped up by attachment, anger, and
ignorance. This mind, unlike enlightened awareness, is always being
carried away by one delusion after another. Thoughts of hatred or
attachment suddenly arise without warning, triggered by such
circumstances as an unexpected meeting with an enemy or a friend, and
unless they are immediately overpowered with the proper antidote, they
quickly take root and proliferate, reinforcing the habitual predominance
of hatred or attachment in the mind and adding more an more karmic
patterns.
Yet, however strong these thoughts may seem, they are just thoughts
and will eventually dissolve back into emptiness. Once you recognize the
intrinsic nature of the mind, these thoughts that seem to appear and
disappear all the time can no longer fool you. Just as clouds form, last
for a while, and then dissolve back into the empty sky, so deluded
thoughts arise, remain for a while, and then vanish into the voidness of
mind; in reality nothing at all has happened.
When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow
appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all
thoughts in their infinite variety – devotion, compassion, harmfulness,
desire – are utterly without substance. There is no thought that is
something other than voidness; if you recognize the void nature of
thoughts at the very moment they arise, they will dissolve. Attachment
and hatred will never be able to disturb the mind. Deluded emotions will
collapse by themselves. No negative actions will be accumulated, so no
suffering will follow.
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