Your Worries and Your Mind

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Needless worrying is also an indication of karmic obstacles. The past is past, what is the use of dwelling on it? Tomorrow is yet to come. To worry bout it is to have wandering thoughts. Some people are extremely good at worrying and wondering about the past and the future. The can do so all day long. This is to make a mountain out of a molehill and this is  karmic obstacle.

What kind of mind are we using now? The deluded mind, it is not a true mind. There is no hindrance in the true mind With the deluded mind, when we try to see something with our naked eyes, we cannot see it clearly.

It is like looking through  distorted glasses, seeing the external environment through a layer of delusion. This delusion is the Eight Consciousnesses and Fifty-One mind objects. With the glasses heavily contaminated, we then interact with the external environment through these consciousnesses and mind objects. Therefore, the environment has changed to that of the Six dusts.

When these consciousnesses and mind objects are not applied to see the external environment, then we do not see the environment of the Six dusts but that of the true nature.

Our every thought and every single action are recorded like a hard drive in a computer. Our Alaya Consciousness records all our good and evil thoughts and actions similar to what a computer does. This is our database, containing not only data in this lifetime but also data from all past lifetimes.

Spiritual beings and people who have the ability can read our data. Therefore, we should be cautious with our thoughts. We should not allow any evil thought to arise. Every thought should be of benefiting all beings and not of harming them.

This way, we are truly succeed in attaining great virtues.

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