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About this mind... In
truth there is nothing really wrong with it. It is
intrinsically pure. Within itself it's already peaceful.
That the mind is not peaceful these days is because it
follows moods. The real mind doesn't have anything to
it, it is simply (an aspect of) Nature. It becomes
peaceful or agitated because moods deceive it. The
untrained mind is stupid. Sense impressions come and
trick it into happiness, suffering, gladness and sorrow,
but the mind's true nature is none of those things. That
gladness or sadness is not the mind, but only a mood
coming to deceive us. The untrained mind gets lost and
follows these things, it forgets itself. Then we think
that it is we who are upset or at ease or whatever.
But really this mind of
ours is already unmoving and peaceful... really
peaceful! Just like a leaf which is still as long as no
wind blows. If a wind comes up the leaf flutters. The
fluttering is due to the wind -- the "fluttering" is due
to those sense impressions; the mind follows them. If it
doesn't follow them, it doesn't "flutter." If we know
fully the true nature of sense impressions we will be
unmoved.
Our practice is simply
to see the Original Mind. So we must train the mind to
know those sense impressions, and not get lost in them.
To make it peaceful. Just this is the aim of all this
difficult practice we put ourselves through.
Copyright © 1991 The
Sangha, Wat Pah Nanachat
Copyright © 1999 Wat
Pah Nanachat
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