How to see yourself as you really are by Dalai Lama

• Ignorance leads to exaggerating the importance of beauty, ugliness, and other qualities
• Exaggeration of these qualities lead to lust, hatred, jealousy, belligerence, and so on
• These destructive emotions lead to actions contaminated by misperception
• These actions lead to powerless birth and rebirth in cyclic existence and repeated entanglement in trouble
• Removing ignorance undermines our exaggeration of positive and negative qualities; this undercuts lust, hatred, jealousy, belligerence, and so on, putting an end to actions contaminated by misperception, thereby ceasing powerless birth and rebirth in cyclic existence
• Insight is the way out
• At the point when anger and lust are generated, reality is not seen; rather, an unreal mental projection of extreme badness or extreme goodness is seen, evoking twisted, unrealistic actions.
• In all areas of thought, you need to be able to analyze, and then, when you have come to a decision, you need to be able to set your mind to it without wavering

~ by antinomian on June 22, 2009.