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The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.
play the part of mirror.
the problems start there, from regarding the real experience of openness as something valuable.
self-deception always manifests itself in terms of trying to create or re-create a dream world, the nostalgia of the dream experience.
Ego is the fear of losing openness, the fear of losing the egoless state.
You must take away the watcher,
When the watcher is gone, there is no evaluation of the experience as being pleasant or painful. When you have panoramic awareness without the evaluation of the watcher, then the bliss becomes irrelevant, by the very fact that there is no one experiencing it.
the understanding of ego is the foundation of Buddhism.
five skandhas or five heaps.
coming to the conclusion of our separateness.
You do not try to cultivate calm thoughts and suppress so-called neurotic thoughts.
too busy seeking distractions from themselves
Form is in itself empty of preconception.
We search for emptiness so that it too becomes a thing, a form, instead of true emptiness.
It is the driving force of emotion and thought in the confused state, and of compassion and wisdom in the enlightened state.”
You can only understand the essence of nirvana by looking into the essence of samsara.
Vajra is associated with anger,
Ratna is associated with pride and earth—solidity,
Padma is connected with passion, a grasping quality, a desire to possess.
Karma is associated with the emotion of jealousy,
Buddha is associated with dullness
In order to weaken the strength of ego, one somehow must establish a link between the imaginary presence and the watcher of oneself, the ego.
