October 15, 2026
When I wake up in the morning the mind also wakes up all its myriad thoughts, feelings and desires and ambitions. What is mind? What is thought? How does it arise? How does one thought yields to another?
There is a lump of dough in your hands and you fashion it into Buddha. Your child comes along, smashes it and makes it into a film star. The baby comes along and smears this on the floor.
Here you have examples of the static (pure, divine), over the rajasic (dynamic and passion-filled) and the tamasic (or adult and stupid) states of mind and forms of dough. Can you understand the mind itself? Can you understand the dough itself, without any form or shape?
The states of mind our mental activities but what is the dharma of the mind? In other words, what is mind without moods, thoughts, feelings?
When this inquiry is pursued, meditation happens. When this inquiry is pursued the seeker becomes truly humble and also truly virtuous. Such a seeker is the most noble citizen in the world. An asset beyond value, he is neither an escapist nor selfish man.