I Think I Am

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arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind And trouble will follow you As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.</i></p><p id="106b"><i>We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness will follow you As your shadow, unshakable.</i></p><p id="00fd">Descartes, I’m pretty sure, had not read the Dhammapada; if he had he might have worded his famous dictum just like I did.</p><p id="7897">© Wolfstuff</p><div id="d474" class="

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Therefore I am

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I think I am Therefore, I am René Descartes as Buddhist convert

A small, frivolous pirouette, a cheerful Buddhist musing.

As the Buddha said, opening the Dhammapada (in Thomas Byrom’s excellent and poetic translation — my favorite):

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind And trouble will follow you As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness will follow you As your shadow, unshakable.

Descartes, I’m pretty sure, had not read the Dhammapada; if he had he might have worded his famous dictum just like I did.