Words
Often, relying on the intellect for understanding, we become satisfied with concepts. We can be conditioned to assume, upon hearing certain words, that we understand what is meant without ever having had direct experience of what the word indicates. Instead of relying on direct apprehension of the truth behind the concept, we consult the conceptual models we have constructed of that which we wish to understand. This makes it easy to stay lost in the moving mind; it is mistaking the map for the territory, or the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself. While we may end up with an impressive description of the truth, we also end up not living in that truth.
The nature of the mind can be experienced through the eye sense consciousness, the ear sense consciousness, the nose sense consciousness, and so on. We see through the eye, but our eye is not seeing. We hear through the ear, but the ear is not hearing. In the same way, the nature of the mind can be experienced through the eye sense consciousness, but it is not the eye sense consciousness that is experiencing.
--- Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche ---
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