𝘼𝙣𝙙, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢?

Well, here is one answer that you may choose to give some time to, maybe even a whole lot of time. 

 

 

Could it be? Could it be that the prior acts (karma) of history found a place within us and go on influencing what the mind constitutes as both subjectivity and objectivity, i.e., "My life equals I plus my circumstances; unless I save my circumstances I cannot save myself." Ortega y Gasset wrote that quote in the 1940's, I believe, and it hints at what the Dalai Lama says here. Karma and the mind are what flesh-out a multiplicity of self-senses and an infinite variety of circumstances both driven by intention, i.e., desire. Watch carefully to observe what the Dalai Lama has here pronounced as a truism. In a word, he is telling us that karma constitutes experience using the mind, or vice versa.

 

In the Rg Veda, the oldest known religious/philosophical/mythic text, composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit and said to have been heard by the sages and poets (rshis & kavis), there appears the following verse:

Desire (kama) appeared as the beginning,

it was the original seed (retas) of mind (manas).

Poets (kavis) searching in their hearts with wisdom,

found the bond of existence (sat) in non-existence (asat).

                                                     --Rg Veda, X.129.4