An excerpt from a teaching called How Buddhists Think by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
According to the Buddha, all that you perceive through your five senses, all your feelings, all the thoughts you take pride in, are based on delusion. Essentially, this experience, this game, this scam, is a puff ball. In fixation, we do not have the spacious, luminous view of our Primordial Wisdom Nature as it is.
Due to the distinction we make between subject and object, we react to every phenomenon we perceive with attraction, repulsion, or neutrality. And even neutrality is part of the continuum and leads to additional fixation, which leads to additional desire.
Even as you watch me drink a glass of water, you may experience a tiny bit of wanting water, and thus an infinitesimal amount of suffering. You may talk yourself out of this wanting, but then right away you want something else. A minute cause-and-effect relationship has begun, and it remains part of you.
Such fleeting desires, no matter how small, distract us from an awareness of our Primordial Wisdom Nature. The mind remains enmeshed, fixated on this subject-object experience.
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