jangchub.norbu “When thought projections appear and we follow along with them, many thoughts will appear like ripples on the surface of the water, and we will be carried away by them. That confusion is called the confusion of looking outside. Proceeding in that way, we cannot trace the source of our thoughts. Therefore, we should look within, like an actress looking in a mirror. Though there is a display of thoughts, if we trace them to their origin, we will find that they manifest from wisdom. When we have identified that wisdom, we will not be carried away by thoughts. It is like when a tree is cut off at the root: its branches, leaves, and flowers dry up automatically. Where is that wisdom? Though there may be many thoughts of attachment or aversion, their nature is empty. When we experience intense pleasure and feel so happy it is unbearable and so excited we cannot sleep, if we look at the nature of that happiness, we will see that it is empty. The wisdom of that emptiness is the nature of primordial purity. That is what we should look at. When we get very angry and think we want to kill our enemy even at the cost of our life, when our face turns red from unbearable anger and we think about getting hold of a weapon, if instead of indulging in this anger, we look at its nature, we will see that it is empty. Once we recognize this empty nature, it is inevitable that the anger will naturally dissolve, like ice melting into water.” Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche – Primordial Purity – on Meditation – Collected Works Vol III pp 623-4, Shambhala Via Dharma Samye 🙏🏻🌷 *in this context emptiness means nothing exists by itself, no phenomena is self-existing, there has to be causes and conditions that produce the phenomenon. Like a flame that is produced when we light up a candle, the flame vanishes when we blow out the candle. Light up the candle and the flame appears again, blow it out and it disappears again. Being a product of circumstances the candle flame is empty of self existence. - @skulloljorv