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A Precious Human Life

Everyday, Think as you wake up, Today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious Human Life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, To expand my heart out to others, To achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry, or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as i can.

The Dalai Lama

Buddha

The Buddha once summarised his entire teachings in one beautiful sentence: I teach about suffering and the way to end it.

Avatamsaka Sutra

The supreme and endless blessings of Samantabhadra’s deeds, I now universally transfer. May every living being, drowning and adrift, Soon return to the Land of Limitless Light!

One single point

Where is your foot?

You most likely point your finger in an instant at  your foot.

Where's your mind?

I do not mean your brain nor thinking but your mind.

It's hard to point out your mind. You can't.

Suppose you were dreaming. You dreamed about having some fun with your friends at the beach. At the moment you were dreaming things seems to be real but you were just dreaming. Also your friends in the dream were real, no doubt about it, you just spoke to them. Where did the dream appear that accommodates your dream world?

Your mind?

Most likely, But we can't point it out. It seems that we're not able to point out our mind, pick it up and say hey, look what I have found. It's there but we can't touch it.

In your dream all your friends were around you, you could see a nice beach and even the ocean. In fact, In your dream your mind is all around you. Even you and your fabric were part of the dream.

From my point of view I can't point out the ocean or shake hands with your friends in your dream. They are in another dimension and I can't point out the construct of your dream.

It's easy to say that your mind created the dream but somehow it's not realistic to say that a single mind created you and me in the here and now of this great universe.

Like a dream using the same principles.

The mind would be all around us and then we would have a reason to say that we can't point out the mind because it's everything and everywhere.

The mind is able to accommodate countless dreams and it would also be able to create countless dimensions of the here and now in all possible variations you never can imagine. Not even to say that the mind would be able to project countless dimensions in a single dimension. A hyperspace.

Going back to the dream your were having, I couldn't point it out, still, You and your friends were there on the beach. Considering this fact, Length, width, height and even time are relative. From my point of view there is nothing to detect  indicating your dream world but from your point of view it's indeed the wide open. Isn't space, time, the past, now and future just an imagination of the mind? Let's imagine Length, width, height and time and there you have it.

Wouldn't it be fair to say that the mind is like one single point, having no length, no width, no height, no mass, no speed, no spin, no time, no history, no future but only being the ultimate creative now?

One single mind and that's all. Nothing more, nothing less. A mind capable to create countless properties in an instant to accommodate our world, you, me, our dreams, our ego's, our toughts and many, many, many other worlds, beings and objects.

Wouldn't it also be fair to say that our mind actually is the mind? All contained in just one single point?

I'm asking you again, Where is your foot?

Sangha Lung

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