“A great Tibetan teacher of mind training once remarked that one of the mind’s most marvelous qualities is that it can be transformed.”
Mind is both our greatest asset and our worst and most dangerous enemy.
The mind can recognize, in the matter of an instant, its own nature,
or it can grasp and chase its own deluded perceptions of reality,
provoking negative thoughts and emotions,
which perpetuate and intensify our suffering.
The key to finishing with suffering, then,
is to understand and tame this mind of
ours, and this is the very essence
of the teachings of
the Buddha.
Sogyal Rinpoche
