Wonderment, by Longchenpa: Tibetan Buddhist writing

“The presence of the six kinds of sentient beings must be known in the same way as the presence of make-believe countries and make-believe towns, make-believe persons and make-believe enjoyment, make-believe happiness and misery, make-believe origination and destruction, make-believe truth and falsehood. ...Ha, ha, look how funny is this mistaken presence! Since its factuality cannot be grasped concretely, it is elusive, tenuous, paradoxical, evasive, casual; improbable, with no intent or truth, it yet is present in many ways.”

                                    Klong-chen rab-’byams-pa (Wonderment)

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