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Tashigar Norte
March 22, 2008
By
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
Khading Shoklap
Flight of the Garuda
Now we will go into the teaching of Shabkar in a practical way. [...]
Emaho!
If we do not listen, all my fortunate students, and we do not search
for the root of our mind we will discover that any kind of practice
we do will not become important and will not bring about realization.
For example, if you place a target very far away and you shoot from
very far and do not hit the target, it is as if you have thieves in
your house and search for them outside; or you keep the bad spirit
at the door of the east and you give torma for drawing bad spirits
away at the door of the west; or a poor man who has a stone in his
kitchen, a stone which is precious and this person always has contact
with it, but doesn’t know and is always going outside to get
money. For that reason, in this way you should research the real nature
of your mind.
What we call the mind seems to be something because we have thoughts.
When we go to find and observe thoughts, they disappear. So you couldn’t
say there is nothing and even though you couldn’t find anything,
immediately thought arises. Something continually arises. That means
that when you see something, there is a thought and you observe it,
it disappears and you cannot find anything. Even if you observe a
thought arising, it does not remain, it is always changing, modifying.
In general, when we have an experience of happiness or sorrow, everything
is because of our mind.
So from where do these thoughts arise? You observe, do they arise
from outside, from the mountains, the river, or the forest? Or do
they arise from the wind or the space? Does something exist concretely,
or does it not exist? Where does is it come from? You observe and
try to discover that.
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