GENTLY WHISPERED ~ 58
So, we just play out our delusion. We are totally at the mercy of this projection of the mind. What is really taking place? As human beings, we experience mind and body, we function in a combination of mind and body. We have a physical form and we have a mind experiencing through that physical form. There is a strong and subtle connection between the two. But, when we experience an emotion, whence is it coming? Does it really have anything to do with the body? Suppose we feel anger. Based upon that anger we might shout at someone, or beat up somebody, or even kill them; but these physical actions occur because we have the mental motivation to enact them. The body acts as an avenue or channel for emotion to be developed and expressed. If we think that emotion is purely and simply a physical manifestation, we should take a look at a corpse, a human body disengaged from its mind. Without a physical form, where is the mind's ability or avenue to express its emotional reality? A corpse is obviously unemotional because the mind no longer uses the physical form to channel its emotional delusions. It can no longer continue to express anger or any other emotion, because the mind does not have the solidity it once had to make this possible. Understanding this gives one more perspective. It enables the individual to realize that one does not have to give in to the mind's emotional delusions or to surrender to an emotion when it arises. Why? Because ultimately speaking, other than this wave of thought or emotion on the surface of the ocean of mind, nothing is happening. The mind is so fluid, so flexible; these qualities allow any situation to become workable. Mind is emptiness; it has no tangibility. One cannot ascribe any limiting characteristics to mind itself. The only statement we can make is to say that metaphorically mind is essentially empty. Yet, that is not all; we also know that the mind has an illuminating potential and the quality of an unimpeded manifestation of dynamic awareness. Now this is not to say that the emptiness is empty and yet phenomenal things are solid, because the manifestation of nirmanakaya is rather like a rainbow. A rainbow, as a whole spectrum of color, is very apparent and very clear, but it is not solid. You can put your hand right through it. This example of an appearance that is essentially