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Cleans The Lens Of Your Mind

Mar 21, 2016 Shyamal Sinha, New Delhi OPINION Comments Off on Cleans The Lens Of Your Mind


interviewEveryone has the right to be happy. The source of happiness, fortunately, is not away from

oneself. It is within you. The causation between the source of happiness and the resultant

happiness operates on the basis of the law of interdependency. Just as happiness is what your

mind experiences, the sources are there within your mind itself. With cheer and wisdom extract

the causes of happiness from within.

Imagine that you are in a large, beautiful garden, but in pitch darkness. Even though you are in

the most exquisite garden you cannot enjoy it. The reason is obvious. There is no light. Just as

not enjoying the garden is due to the absence of light, all our miseries are due to the darkness of

ignorance. Only through introducing the light of wisdom can the darkness of ignorance be

eliminated. All the writings of the great saint-scholars of all religious traditions are meant to

ignite the light of wisdom which sees everything as dream-like, empty of objective existence as

indicated in the following stanza:

Just as in the dream of a youthful girl,

She met with a boy and saw his death,

Joyous was she at the meeting and despair at his death,

View all phenomena as thus.

Furthermore, although the light is introduced, if it is small like that of a tiny candle, you can only

enjoy seeing one or two flowers, not the entire beautiful garden. Only a pervasive light as that of

the sun will allow you to enjoy the whole exquisite garden. Likewise, the light that you introduce

should be pervasive. What makes the light of wisdom pervasive is universal love which reaches

out to all beings. Jainism’s emphasis on ahimsa and Buddhism’s emphasis on compassion are

magnificent inspirations in this pursuit. Other religions are no less.

In short the legacy of these great beings from the various religious traditions boils down to the

cultivation of wisdom to see everything as dream-like in the context of the interdependency of all

phenomena and unconditional love which simply erases all ill thoughts by embracing all other

sentient beings, leaving none aside. This keeps you, your family of sentient beings and your

environment in peace and calmness at all times.

Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul

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