…Who arrange colours to produce a picture, I teach.
The picture is not in the colours, nor in the canvas, nor in the plate…
(/ed: …but in the Mind. The same way, reality provides just the bare substrate as-is and
the Mind paints an objective world laden with meaning through cognition and the
entailed directed action.)
– Mahayana Buddhism, Lankavatara Sutra, Chapter 2, IX:118
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Reminiscing over the past is like chewing the cud, the more you indulge in it, the sweeter it tastes.
The only cure for 24/7 drowsiness, aimlessness and broodiness is good, hard, focussed work.
If you frequently find yourself berating yourself over your perceived flaws, THAT is the biggest flaw which needs fixing.
We humans are like mirrors: We simply reflect all that we’ve learnt from our unique experiences. But to think that we are inherently unique in some way would be a fallacy. All mirrors are the same, they contain nothing alone, by themselves. Only when you put millions of these mirrors together, you get the beautiful kaleidoscope of humanity.
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Finished looking for the answers
Now I’m looking for the questions.
Taken from the lyrics of “Backwards” by Apartment 26.
This life is fleeting like…
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, a dream.
Copied straight from the buddhist Diamond Sutra. You can find the full sutra here.
