Buddhist Thoughts

Our minds are wonderfully limitless constructs : it`s the thinking that gets us into trouble .
The most sophisticated , conscious generating , creation in the known Universe and nearly everybody living has never taken a test on how to use it .
My BLOGS are intended to delve deeply into what we really have between our ears and behind our eyes , and in our hearts.
How we underestimate what it can do
How it creates our emotional atmosphere
How the mind is seen in new quantum thought ; in spiritually , and in the mundane affairs of everyday existence .
If you have a mind , then , please feel free to join in .
As a Mahayana Tibetan Buddhist I would like to post this first blog with the following Buddhist thinking on the nature of mind from that perspective :

Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do the waves come from? The ocean.
In the same manner, thoughts and emotions are the radiance and expression of the very nature of the mind. They rise from the mind, but where do they dissolve? Back into the mind. Whatever rises, do not see it as a particular problem. If you do not impulsively react, if you are only patient, it will once again settle into its essential nature.
When you have this understanding, then rising thoughts only enhance your practice. But when you do not understand what they intrinsically are—the radiance of the nature of your mind—then your thoughts become the seed of confusion. So have a spacious, open, and compassionate attitude toward your thoughts and emotions, because in fact your thoughts are your family, the family of your mind. Before them, as Dudjom Rinpoche used to say: “Be like an old wise man, watching a child play.”

Well then , that was short and sweet ..........penny for any thoughts
Geoff .