A Flower In Space

In essence, ignorance is nothing more than a supposition. Like something invisible, it only seems to be there. Gampopa describes ignorance in his Jewel Ornament of Liberation as "a flower in space."

Imagine that you and I are sitting together, and I begin describing for you a very beautiful flower that I'm holding - which you may or may not be able to see. I go on and on about the qualities and magnificence of this flower, but the flower is imaginary, a flower in space. You might call this daydreaming, and because you can't see any flower you find it difficult to believe in it. In the same way, ignorance is the assumption that there is a "flower" in space when in fact there is nothing there.

Similarly, the thoughts and feelings that seem so real - my ignorance, my anger, my desires, my actual existence - are like this imaginary flower, and we can be just as obsessed by them. Certainly these emotions have a definite feeling and texture, but there is no real evidence to prove their existence. They are like flowers in space. From that perspective, we spend our entire lives enslaved by invisible thoughts and emotions with no actual existence. And another lifetime goes by - accumulating even more karmic causes that bring more fruition. This cycle of suffering is never exhausted, and we're unable to pull out of it. This is the essence of samsara. We must truly understand that suffering is caused by the ignorance of sentient beings who are unable to see their true nature.

This world is definitely filled with great suffering - birth, sickness, old age, and death, as well as hatred, violence, pain, and other difficulties - but the intensity of that suffering is up to us. We are all very accustomed to making things difficult, complicated, and "necessary." Grasping at such intense illusions, we allow formless thoughts to become so real that they completely overpower us and our human sensibility to just be - simple human beings, honest and kind.

- This Precious Life by Khandro Rinpoche






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