White Sail: Crossing the Waves of Ocean Mind to the Serene Continent of the Triple Gems by Norbu Rinpoche Thinley

Author:Norbu Rinpoche, Thinley
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2012-02-10T02:00:00+00:00

Whoever is wise about the true meaning of the nature of appearance,

That wise person is close to attaining siddhi.

Or, whoever has stable faith with a simple mind,

That person is close to attaining siddhi.

Whoever thinks and conceptualizes,

That person is far away from attaining siddhi.

The meaning of faith is to see qualities in others that are much more wonderful than and superior to one’s own. There are three kinds of faith: the faith without reason that makes the mind clear, like an innocent child who is delighted with pure phenomena inside a beautiful temple; the faith of desire to receive superior qualities; and the faith of complete belief in sublime beings without doubt, so that one can receive their blessings and become the same as they are. In order to recognize our own wisdom qualities, we must depend on outer positive circumstances, which in this case means meeting those who can show the correct way to do this. Without faith or guidance, it is impossible to know how to do this in the right way. We must have faith in order to open the quality of our own Buddha nature. Through having faith in teachers who show us the correct way until we have full confidence, the outer object of faith joins with our own inner Buddha.

Many nihilists think that if someone who was previously a nihilist takes refuge in Buddha, he must have been brainwashed. They feel that Buddhism has had too much of an influence on his mind since his phenomena are no longer complementary to their own. Particularly if they think he is changing as a result of his practice, they see it as proof of brainwashing, without considering how everything and everyone are always changing constantly and unavoidably, both noticeably and unnoticeably. From the Buddhist perspective, the purpose of practice is to change one’s deluded, dualistic phenomena. It may be a positive sign if someone changes, if he actually decreases ordinary ego and attachment to ordinary power in this life without being contrived or hypocritical, and increases wisdom energy for unending benefit. Actually, all of the phenomena of sentient beings within karmic habit and conception are brainwashing. It is only the content of the brainwashing that is different. When we decide to rely on the Buddhist wisdom methods of using the mind to change the mind, it is not brainwashing with a wrong, worldly point of view; it is cleansing the mind with the nectar of the wisdom point of view, going beyond karmic habit by changing our ordinary phenomena to the pure appearance of wisdom.

If we do not have faith and are only curious about spiritual ideas from a cultural point of view, we can become callous and insensitive to profound teachings without ever actually understanding them. Whatever is learned can seem to become familiar and stale if it is disconnected from the unimaginable manifestation of pure wisdom energy. What is learned from practice causes unshakable faith and is always uncontrived. But if we only have curiosity

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