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The Rare Occasion
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But this mind is not ready to understand. This mind is always making you unhappy, giving you the thought that you have not achieved anything. It mocks you. In this inner mockery, you are unhappy. No matter what you do during your day, when that thought comes, “What did you achieve?” all is in vain. The mind puts down even the good deeds you have done. It compares you to this person and to that. And this failure bites you, saddens you, weighs on you. You become so heavy that you don't derive any joy from life. And there will always be someone somewhere in the world who has more or who has done more than you.
So the master tells the initiate, “Your achievement is bodhidurlabha. Your achievement is to be aware of the real and the unreal, to be aware of your inner wealth living inside your outer garments.” There is neither right nor wrong, only the real and the unreal. They have become confused. It is meaningless to blame anyone for this mistake; it is important only to see the way in which conditioning and unawareness have kept us from distinguishing between the two.
This allegory points out the confusion. One day truth and untruth both went to take a bath in the river. It was summer, so they took off their clothes and dived in. They were swimming happily until untruth got an idea. She came out from the river first and put on truth's dress. When truth came out and saw that her dress was gone, she said, “It is not good to go naked in society, so let me wear the dress which is left over." Since that day, the two have been moving in society and people don't know which is which because of their outer appearances.
See the reality rather than only the outside dress. Don't be deceived by appearance. See exactly who is wearing the dress. What we see with our eyes is deceptive
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