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the basis for all the afflictive emotions - all the fear, sadness, greed and
aggression- will always be there too.
Such is the nature of appearances for the average person they seem to exist
in a way they actually do not, but we can train our mind to experience in
another, reality based way.
The great master, Kalu Rinpoche said that when someone gives us some
problem, we should see them as transparent, and dedicate all our merit to
them. This takes care of both the conceptual level fixating on and
solidifying a sense of self and others, and it also corrects the emotional, or
qualitative level, where we have likely at least withheld our goodwill, if not
actually wished another harm.
To consider that things are not impermanent either, because there are no
things that is seeing through the labels we produce, the mere names that
we give, and not getting caught in them.
Many people get stuck here. If things are impermanent, then they are born,
they die, they increase, they decrease, and so on. All that is based on
mistaken thinking. It doesnt match the reality that Buddhism teaches us we
can see and know for ourselves.
This is what we need to directly perceive, without the intermediary of ideas
about it is this way, or that way, and without borrowing conclusions
arrived at by others, and substituting it for our own personal experience.
Where things begin and end, we cant say. We cant encompass that with
our concepts. What we are now is also beyond what words can describe, but
it is something we can experience.
Not caught, there is space and light; there is peace, profound connection,
and, ultimately, there is love.
May we live with this understanding.