The Flawless Vision
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was completely impervious to any feelings projected towards him
by others. People’s feelings towards him ranged from reverence
to contempt; from love to sexual desire; from respect to insult.
Nothing affected him. There was no element of retaliation in him
to anything. The one who is free from retaliation attains final
liberation. The one who retaliates has to stay behind to suffer the
consequences.
The world will go on binding you with all sorts of negative
and positive feelings. If a pickpocket sees you putting money in
your pocket at a train station, would he not make the intent to
steal it? And suppose you were to suddenly board the train as it
was pulling away, leaving the pickpocket behind, even though he
missed the opportunity to steal your money, he still formulated the
intent to steal and this will bind him for new karma effects.
Everyone in the world is going to have such positive or
negative inner intent but if there is no retaliation from you then you
will be left alone. If you do not put your own intent in others’
intent, no one in the world can bind you; otherwise there would
be no end to it.
From One to Infinite Through Ignorance
If you press your eyeball with your finger, you would see
double. The eyes are not the real form of the Soul; they are the
relative form. Nevertheless even when there is only one mistake,
do you not see two? If there were fragments of a broken mirror
lying on the ground, you would see so many eyes peering at you.
From a slight mistake made by the eyes you would see countless
eyes. In the same way, it is not that the Soul becomes compressed,
but the pressure of circumstances distorts the single real view of
the Soul into a multitude of forms. This entire living world is in the
form of the divine. With just the mere thought of chopping down a