LikeaMagiciansIllusion

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The next one is illusion. All causative phenomena are like illusions. I mentioned before regarding meditations on emptiness, on different days to keep the mind in different meditations. Normally, I suggest that. For example, there is a magician person who, with mantras and substances, illusioned the audiences senses so that they see a beautiful palace, and a beautiful man or woman, a golden elephant, all kinds of things. The magician person illusioned the audiences senses and it makes them to see like that. Maybe he can illusion a wholecityorvillage. There are three things. (1) The audience does not realize; there are people whose senses are illusioned,buttheydonotrealizethisandtheybelievetheview,whatappearstothem,asreal. Then, (2) maybe there are some people in the audience who know their senses are illusioned. Also maybe the magician person, himself, has this illusion, but he realizes it is not true; it is totallynonexistent.Then,(3)thereisapersonwhosemindisnotillusioned,whosesensesare not illusioned and so does not have this hallucination. He knows that all this is a hallucination, these appearances, and himself, the person, does not have illusion. There are these three differentpeople,threetypesofpeople. Similarly, there are common worldly people to whom I, object, action, the phenomena, appear as truly existent, due to past ignorance. All merely labeled things appear as truly existent and thentheyholdontothatasonehundredpercenttrue.Then,therearethosewhohaverealized emptiness.I,action,object,andphenomenaarerealizedasempty;theydonotexistfromtheir own side, do not exist at all from their own side. They are totally empty of existing from their own side. Those who have that realization, see I, action, object, and phenomena as like an illusion, not illusion but like an illusion. Then, of course, there are bodhisattva arya beings who havethewisdomdirectlyperceivingemptiness;theyaresentientbeingsuptothetenthbhumi. There are arhats and arya beings with wisdom directly perceiving emptiness, but they have the hallucination of true existence, except for when their mind is in equipoise meditation. At that time, they do not have the appearance of true existence. During that time, the dualistic view is absorbed,notcutbutabsorbed.Onlyenlightenedbeingshavecutitforever. The magician person, himself or herself, and some of the audience people have the hallucination, but realize it is not true. They are like those who have realized emptiness, the arya beings the arya bodhisattvas and the arhats and aryas of the Lesser Vehical path with wisdom directly perceiving emptiness who, when they are not in equipoise meditation, they have this hallucination but their wisdom sees it as empty. Then, the omniscient ones, the buddhas, do not have truly existent appearance. It is completely ceased, because what produces the appearance of true existence is the subtle defilements, the subtle negative imprint,andthathastotallyceased.Thesubtleimprintleftbytheconceptoftrueexistencehas totallyceased,sotheydonothavetrulyexistentappearance.

Howtomeditateallthetime Isuggestthatonemeditationtodoindailylife,isonedaytopracticethatyourignoranceisthe magician person. Your ignorance illusioned you. You, yourself, are the audience and your ignorance is the magician who has illusioned you. Then you see I, action, object, sound, smell, taste everything hell, enlightenment, all phenomena of samsara and nirvana, you see as illusion, an illusioned world. Your ignorance is the magician person who illusioned you the audience, your senses. All this is a totally hallucinated world; illusioned. That is what you do while you are traveling, while you are walking, while you are shopping. You do it with this awareness.Yougoshoppingwiththisawareness.Youdoyourjobwiththisawareness. Your ignorance is the magician person and you are the audience and then you have all this illusionofeverythingbeingreal.Everythingappearsasexistingfromitsownsideyourcar,the road, everything, yourself, driving, your house, your room, every room the dining room, sitting room the toilet, garden. Then go shopping, every shop keeper is existing from its own side, according to what your ignorance, the magician person illusioned. It makes it appear as trulyexistent,notmerelylabeledbymind.Yougotothefruitsectionofthesupermarket,there aremaybefiftyoronehundredtypesofvegetablesandfruit;thentothemeatsection,allthat. Meditate, practice awareness of it as being an illusion. Your ignorance, the magician person, illusioned you so that everything is real, existing from their own side; something which is TOTALLY, toooootally empty there, totally nonexistent there, from its own side. Then, in the department store, all the clothing clothing for children, clothing for women, clothing for men again, your ignorance, the magician person, illusioned you so that everything exists as not merely labeled by mind,even though everything is merely labeled byyour mind right now, just a second before, constantly. But you are not aware, so it exists from its own side. This is total hallucination,illusion.Itistotallyemptyrightthere. Then go to the section of pots, you go to the kitchen section, where there are very inspiring knives, very inspiring many things TRULY EXISTING from their own side, truly there; truly existing from their own side. Your ignorance, the magician person, illusioned this, but nothing existing there, in reality. It is all like that. Then, go to the makeup place, all the billions and zillions of makeup for all the different parts of the body mouth, nose, ears, eyes, eyebrows. There are a lot of things for the eyebrows. Then, this one? Eyelashes; there are a lot of things for the eyelashes; a lot of things for the cheeks Your ignorance is like a magician person who illusioned you, so everything truuuuly exists from their own side, not at all merely labeled by mind. Im talking about the meditation. Even when you go shopping, this is an amazing, wonderful, powerful meditation. It becomes meditation, not only just shopping; it becomes a meditationsession,averyeffective,verypowerfulmeditationsession. A meditation session doesnt have to only be on your hard cushion, where you sit cross legged and close down the eyes, close down the mind, close down everything. Then sooner or later sleep comes! I think it is a very wonderful, very effective session this way. You dont fall asleep there! Even if you dont buy anything, you can still go there and do this meditation, go around theshops,tothedepartmentstore.Youdonthavetobuyanything;justdothemeditation.Itis the same when you go sightseeing, do simple sightseeing. When you go to see waterfalls, or

mountains,orsnow,whenyougotoseeoldbuildings,orwhenyougotoseeruinedplaces,itis the same. You should use it; it should become a meditation session for you. It doesnt matter what others do, but for you it should become a meditation session, very effective, most powerful. Then, whatever you are doing, you are always taking the essence of your life. Continuously, you are working for your liberation, and with bodhichitta you are continuously working for enlightenment. In this way, eating, walking, sitting, sleeping, doing your job not onlywhenyoudothetraditionalpractices,butwhatyoudoinnormallife,everything,becomes the antidote to samsara, not the cause of samsara but the antidote to samsara. It destroys samsara, the cause of samsara, ignorance; it eliminates that. Everything becomes the antidote to that. Everything becomes the cause to achieve liberation, and if done with bodhichitta the causeofenlightenment. Peoplegoforwalksfortheirhealthsomuch,whethertheyhaveadogornot.Ofcourse,people who have a dog, no matter how busy you are because the dog needs to go out, you go a little bit out and then come back. Whether you have a dog or not, if you always go for a walk it would be very wonderful your life would become very rich and you would collect extensive merits for happiness, liberation, enlightenment if when you go for a walk, you generate a bodhichitta motivation and then during that time either meditate on bodhichitta or use that timetomeditateonemptiness. Here, one way of doing it is that your ignorance is the magician person and you are the audience who has been illusioned. Then all the roads, trees, lakes, water lakes, everything which is merely imputed by the mind, all these are totally nonexistent, empty from their own side. All these are, in reality, just amazing, unimaginably subtle, how subtle it is I, action, object, the whole thing, all phenomena, what is called this and this and this and this and that it is most unbelievably, unbelievably subtle, just existing in mere name. It is just existing in mere name. It is merely imputed by the mind, so, in other words, it is complete emptyfromitsownside.Itexists,butisempty;itisempty,butexists.Whatexistsissomething most unbelievably, unbelievably subtle; but it appears as real. Everything, all this, is covered, madereal,trulyexistent,decorated.Itiscoveredandthatmakeseverythingreal.Likethebrick walls that are covered by mud, like the rug covers the floor, or like the table is covered with brocade;everythingiscompletelycoveredbyhallucination;themagicianpersonillusionedyou, yoursenses. Practice mindfulness of this continuously. It is so wonderful, even if you dont have much time to sit and meditate, but going for a walk is easy. There is not much time to sit down and meditate, but there is more time to go for a walk, that one you find time for very easily. Anyway,usethattimeformeditation.[Endvideo.]