Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.
Interpretation
This quote encourages finding inner peace despite the turmoil of thoughts and external circumstances.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche's quote reflects on the nature of the mind and the unceasing struggles it faces due to karma and overwhelming thoughts. It suggests that amid the chaos represented by 'the pounding waves' of samsara, one should aim for a state of natural great peace, signifying tranquility and acceptance of one's current state, even when feeling exhausted and beaten down.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a meditation retreat to emphasize the importance of peace in chaotic times.
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.
Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life - unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours - the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
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