MindScience Quotes

“The point is that each mental state, each moment of mind, is composed of a shifting array of properties that combine to flavor and define that state. There is a nice pithy Zen saying that makes the point: To her lover, a beautiful women is a delight; to an ascetic, a distraction; to a wolf, a good meal.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, MindScience: An East-West Dialogue

“We are simply not nothing, as everyone knows for sure. And what we are is, to be more precise, something that, when we try to pin down what it is, appears to be nothing; yet when we do not try to pin down what it is, looks very much like something.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, MindScience: An East-West Dialogue