05-30-2010, 12:00 AM
Fool, funny you should post those words from Longchenpa.
Just last year I was reading those very same words and the multiplicity of objects just dissolved leaving me with a sense of liberation from existence. Objects never returned!
When looking at reflections in a mirror, notice the perfect accommodation. It is not like one reflection of an object has to move over in order to make room for another. The objects that are reflected, they cannot be said to be on the surface of the mirror as if the surface of the mirror is distinct and sitting just on top of it is the reflection of a distinct object. Neither can the object said to be in the mirror somewhere. No the reflection is indistinguishable from the reflectiveness of the mirror itself. Like the moon's reflection on a lake. One reflectiveness with the appearance of many objects that look individual and separate and multiple. The essence of mind is like that.....accommodating perfectly. But when the mind discriminates objects it becomes disturbed.
Just last year I was reading those very same words and the multiplicity of objects just dissolved leaving me with a sense of liberation from existence. Objects never returned!
When looking at reflections in a mirror, notice the perfect accommodation. It is not like one reflection of an object has to move over in order to make room for another. The objects that are reflected, they cannot be said to be on the surface of the mirror as if the surface of the mirror is distinct and sitting just on top of it is the reflection of a distinct object. Neither can the object said to be in the mirror somewhere. No the reflection is indistinguishable from the reflectiveness of the mirror itself. Like the moon's reflection on a lake. One reflectiveness with the appearance of many objects that look individual and separate and multiple. The essence of mind is like that.....accommodating perfectly. But when the mind discriminates objects it becomes disturbed.