Fri, 04 Sep 2009
Two Analogies
Next, there are two analogies in Ganges Mahamudra:
For example, [if] the root of a tree with flourishing branches and foliage is cut, its ten thousand branches and hundred thousand leaves wither.
For example, even the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons is cleared away by a single lamp flame. Similarly, an instant of the luminosity of mind itself dispels aeons of accumulated negativity and obscuration without exception.
Afflictive emotions cn be overcome through the power of will, but this a difficult and tedious process. All afflictive emotions depend on the ignorance that grasps at a self and when this is cut through, the afflictive emotions are cut through as well. There are many deluded views and they can be overcome through scolarly examination, but this is a difficult and tedious process. Seeing the nature of mind cuts through all delusions.
