demented delight
Apprentice When I told you that I was
sad but that maybe I understood something – i.e. I’m sad
because understanding just makes it clear how hopeless it is –
you said that samsara was indeed hopeless but that although it is sad
– that ‘that sadness’ is the basis of a profound and
stable joy. There is something I do not understand. How can this
sadness be the basis of a profound and stable joy?
Lamas
Because joy without the sadness of having seen that samsara is
irredeemably defective is not stable – and therefore the cause
of misery. The ‘sadness of having seen that samsara is
irredeemably defective’ is a ‘sadness which matures into
desirelessly desirously demented delight’ – i.e. that
which knows sadness as ‘a texture of itself’. That is
stable.
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