Ep. 175 – Intention to Awaken
Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
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The Dhammapada - Mind Is the Forerunner of All Things
The patterns that mind creates determine the experience of our life. The first verse in the Dhammapada, or rebendreness to gore, we put it this way. We imagine that our mind is a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principle element of creation. Think about that. If we look directly at the power of mind to envision and create or destroy its fantastic,. you go to a city and here is the lights and bridges and buildings and people and cars and everything sparkling... It is made of ideas first.
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