When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.
Interpretation
Awareness allows us to see our thoughts as ephemeral and insignificant.
In this quote, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche emphasizes the notion that when we stay grounded in awareness, our thoughts—regardless of their nature—lose their weight and significance. Just as drawings in air are fleeting and insubstantial, so too are our mental patterns when observed with a clear, detached perspective. This suggests that cultivating awareness can lead to a profound understanding of the transient nature of thoughts and an increased sense of inner peace.
In practice
During a mindfulness retreat, this quote could inspire participants to observe their thoughts without attachment.
Don’t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and don’t dwell upon them. Give up your personal shortcomings, such as foolish talk, distracting activities, and absentmindedness. Train in being totally gentle in all physical, verbal, or mental activities. Don’t ponder the flaws of others; think instead of their good sides.
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment one thought or emotion after another like the surface of the ocean in turmoil, without any recognition of mind essence. This confusion is continuous, without almost any break, life after life.
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The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.
The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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