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.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the continuous turmoil of thoughts and emotions experienced by sentient beings, suggesting a lack of awareness of their true essence.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's quote addresses the pervasive confusion and chaos experienced by individuals as they navigate through life. It illustrates how thoughts and emotions can create a tumultuous experience, akin to turbulent ocean waters, preventing recognition of one’s deeper mind essence. This state of bewilderment is described as ongoing and repetitive, reflecting the challenges of achieving clarity and understanding in both this life and beyond.
In practice
In a meditation workshop, a facilitator could use this quote to illustrate the nature of distracted thinking.
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.
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.
When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. _x000D_ _x000D_ Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. _x000D_ _x000D_ To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, _x000D_ _x000D_ to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.
Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.
This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.
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