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1405- “Toward your thoughts and emotions, be like an old wise man, watching a child play.”

Sogyal Rinpoche
(via Ramakrishna Salapaka) 

When you have this understanding, then rising thoughts only enhance your practice. But when you do not understand what they intrinsically are—the radiance of the nature of your mind—then your thoughts become the seed of confusion. So have a spacious, open, and compassionate attitude toward your thoughts and emotions, because in fact your thoughts are your family, the family of your mind. Before them, as Dudjom Rinpoche used to say: “Be like an old wise man, watching a child play.”

—Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, chapter 5

Narayana Rao C's comment:- Observing the thoughts dispassionately, is meditation. The 'world' is thoughts, evolved through sensory organs in waking state. When mind experiences 'no thoughts', the world disappears and the mind experiences the bliss| happiness. In meditation the identity of the individual is lost in the experience of self consciousness which is the Brahman or unlimited consciousness!

Labels: Knowledge, Life, Quotes, Religion, Self development

posted by C. Narayana Rao at 2:04 pm