When we watch a television program, we have no trouble identifying places, persons, animals, mountains, and so on. Through becoming involved with the program, we identify with what we are seeing and begin to feel an emotional response. Actually what we are looking at are not places, persons, animals, or mountains, but points of light on a tube in a little box. The confusion that is necessary to enjoy a television program is similar to bewilderment or ignorance, where the very vividness or intensity of the images of the mind’s lucidity overpowers the mind.

Thrangu Rinpoche

from the book A Song for the King: Saraha on Mahamudra Meditation

translated by Peter O'Hearn


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Further quotes from the book A Song for the King:

• Just appearances within the mind
• Progress in the practice
• Turning poison into healing water
• Overpowering images of the mind’s lucidity
• We have never looked into our mind