When a rainbow appears we see many beautiful colors. Yet a rainbow is not something we can cloth ourselves with or wear as an ornament. It simply appears through the conjunction of various conditions. Light, moister, air, with the right conditions a rainbow appears. Thoughts arise in the mind in just the same way. They have no tangible reality or intrinsic existence at all.
There is therefore no logical reason why thoughts should have so much power over us, nor any reason why we should be enslaved by them. Once we recognize that thoughts are empty, the mind will no longer have the power to deceive us. But as long as we take our deluded thoughts as real, they will continue to torment us mercilessly as they have been doing through countless past lives.
Joseph Goldstein: Dharma Teaching
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