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Sep21
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
If you vanquish
ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened. If you vanquish it
tomorrow, you will be enlightened tomorrow night. But if you never
vanquish it, you will never be enlightened. Yet ” I ” is just a thought.
Thoughts and feelings have no intrinsic solidity, form, shape, or
color. When a thought of anger arises in the mind with such force that
you feel aggressive and destructive, is anger brandishing a weapon? Is
it at the head of an army?
Can it burn things like
fire, crush them like a rock, or carry them away like a violent river?
No. Anger, like any other thought or feeling, has no true existence—-
not even a definitive location in your body, speech, or mind. It is just
like wind roaring in empty space.
Instead of allowing
wild thoughts to enslave you, realize their essential emptiness. If you
subdue the hatred within, you will discover that there is not a single
enemy left outside. Otherwise, even if you could overpower everyone in
the whole world, your hatred will only grow stronger. Indulging it will
never make it subside. The only truly intolerable enemy is hatred
itself.
Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought.
When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche(image source: unknown)
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