Passage 11

In English

Desires create the phantom of the mind

The mind is also referred to as self, the pseudo-self. In truth, it is (Once appearance). Everyone says, "I am mentally worried. My mind is troubling me much". But has any one seen this mind? No one knows what the mind is, but they suffer from the mind, from its illusory existence. 'The worry which you suffer is your own creation. Fear too is self-created, When we imagine the mind is there, it shows up. Deny it or enquire into it, it vanishes totally. Instead of enquiring, we give the mind undue prominence and allow it to ride over us and subject ourselves to suffering.