Lama Shabkar

For this reason, examine your mind to its root in the following way, my heart children.

This so-called mind thinks and knows this and that

and moves to and fro.

If you pursue it, it isn't caught but vanishes, elusive as mist.

If you try to settle it, it won't stay but moves here and there and then disperses.

you cannot pin it down by saying, that's it.

Rather, it is an insubstantial emptiness.

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First, examine the source of your mind, this knower of happiness and sorrow.

Where does it come from?

Does it come from external phenomena like mountains, rocks, water and trees?

Or the wind in the sky?

From something solid or from something immaterial?

Where can you find its source?

If you think that it comes from the semen and blood of your father and mother how did that happen?

After analysing in this way and finding no source, next examine the upper and lower body.

Then the sense organs, heart and so forth.

At this very instant,

Where is the mind?

If it's in the heart, is it in the top or the bottom?