What Are You Doing To Your Mind?
Or rather, what is your mind doing to you?
We need to be precise about this.
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The essence of mind is the emptiness of pure consciousness; this clarity of direct seeing is what we are, but we fill this pure space with fixated ideas which distract and obscure pure vision. Pure vision isn’t something extra extra extraordinary; it’s merely seeing, without the usual commentaries and judgements. Realisation is just that.
Our mind has become our karma, as each moment of reaction compounds the illusion, creating both our behaviour, and the imitation self that deluded consciousness identifies with. We are not the ideas in the mind, precisely because we can see thoughts operating. We are consciousness, pure and simple – we don’t have consciousness. If we had consciousness, what would we be then?
It is ideas that separates us.
Our mind stores memories, which can be useful for expressing how things are if we see straight. But if these memories take over, we become a repeating machine, and that is precisely how most of us spend our lives. Is that living?
When we say the world is crazy, it really is …
but that craziness can be enlightening.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 