I got this today they say; tomorrow I shall get that. This wealth is mine and that will be mine too. I have destroyed my enemies. I shall destroy others too! Am I not like God? I enjoy what I want. I am successful. I am powerful. I am happy. I am rich and well-born. Who is equal to me? I will perform sacrifices and give gifts and rejoice in my own generosity. This is how they go on deluded by ignorance. Bound by their greed and entangled in a web of delusion whirled about by a fragmented mind they fall into a dark hell. Self-important obstinate swept away by the pride of wealth they ostentatiously perform sacrifices without any regard for their purpose. Egotistical violent arrogant lustful angry envious of everyone they abuse my presence within their own bodies and in the bodies of others.
When delusions are absent the mind is the land of buddhas. When delusions are present the mind is hell. Mortals create delusions. And by using the mind to give birth to mind they always find themselves in hell. Bodhisattvas see through delusions. And by not using the mind to give birth to mind they always find themselves in the land of buddhas. If you dont use your mind to create mind every state of mind is empty and every thought is still. You go from one buddha-land to another. If you use your mind to create mind every state of mind is disturbed and every thought is in motion. You go from one hell to the next.
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.
All are lunatics but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
I got this today they say; tomorrow I shall get that. This wealth is mine and that will be mine too. I have destroyed my enemies. I shall destroy others too! Am I not like God? I enjoy what I want. I am successful. I am powerful. I am happy. I am rich and well-born. Who is equal to me? I will perform sacrifices and give gifts and rejoice in my own generosity. This is how they go on deluded by ignorance. Bound by their greed and entangled in a web of delusion whirled about by a fragmented mind they fall into a dark hell. Self-important obstinate swept away by the pride of wealth they ostentatiously perform sacrifices without any regard for their purpose. Egotistical violent arrogant lustful angry envious of everyone they abuse my presence within their own bodies and in the bodies of others.
RATIONAL adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation experience and reflection.
When delusions are absent the mind is the land of buddhas. When delusions are present the mind is hell. Mortals create delusions. And by using the mind to give birth to mind they always find themselves in hell. Bodhisattvas see through delusions. And by not using the mind to give birth to mind they always find themselves in the land of buddhas. If you dont use your mind to create mind every state of mind is empty and every thought is still. You go from one buddha-land to another. If you use your mind to create mind every state of mind is disturbed and every thought is in motion. You go from one hell to the next.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.