Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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not only labeled the aggregates of the baby “George” but merely labeled them. If your mind<br />
hadn’t labeled those aggregates “George,” George would not have existed.<br />
Before the baby was conceived, before the aggregates came into existence, even though you<br />
might have already decided on the name for the baby, that name has no valid base. George<br />
does not exist, even if there is a mind that has given the name.<br />
Therefore George only comes into existence by depending on the aggregates, the valid base,<br />
being there, and depending on the labeling valid mind that merely labels “George” onto<br />
those aggregates. Only then does George come into existence. So George exists in mere<br />
name.<br />
In that first moment it is just the merely imputed George, but you do not know that, you do<br />
not realize that. Then, the next moment, the real George appears from there. A merely<br />
labeled George should appear—that is the reality—but that does not happen. What happens<br />
in the next moment is that George appears to exist from its own side. This George that<br />
didn’t come from the mind, is not merely labeled by the mind, has never been labeled by the<br />
mind and totally exists from its own side is totally false.<br />
So, the first moment there is the merely labeled George and then, the next moment, the<br />
negative imprint left by ignorance projects a real George. That is the hallucination. Then, in<br />
the third moment, you believe that real appearance. It appears real and you believe it to be<br />
real. You believe this is real George, but there is no real George. There is no real George<br />
existing from its own side at all. That never happened. That is the king of delusions, the<br />
basic problem. That is the root of all the delusions. All other delusions such as attachment<br />
arise on the basis of that wrong object.<br />
Attachment arises on the basis of believing a real George to be there, but the object of<br />
attachment is not there.<br />
In the Lamrim Chenmo there is a very good explanation of how delusions are all built on the<br />
basis of the wrong concept. There is no object of attachment or anger. It does not exist. The<br />
mind has projected it; the mind has created it. We have totally made it up and we have<br />
created the suffering ourselves.<br />
The real George is a good example of this. It is totally false but on the basis of it there is so<br />
much attachment. We think, “My child,” then when something disturbs our attachment, we<br />
get angry. Like that, all the other delusions arise. In that way, we live our whole life<br />
completely in the hallucination.<br />
There is no real <strong>Lama</strong> <strong>Zopa</strong>. There is no real Jamyang Centre appearing from its own side.<br />
There is no real teaching appearing from there. All this is totally empty. There is no real<br />
home appearing from there. There is no real car that you drive, existing from its own side.<br />
There is no real shop, no real shopkeeper, no real money, no real coming and going. There is<br />
no real university, no real degree, no real job. There is no real cancer. Maybe that example is<br />
better. There is no real cancer, no real AIDS.<br />
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