Khenpo Tsültrim
Gyamtso Rinpoche
Quote of the Week
August 2, 2013
Just a Conceptual Construct
[According to the Particularist (Vaibhashika) School:]
When you look at the continuum of consciousness, you may think it is one thing, but really it breaks down into its individual moments of the past, the present and the future. These [individual] moments can be divided even further. This whole that you believe to exist is, in fact, just a conceptual construct.
That applies to both material things and the mind.
Anything that can be broken down into parts is only apparently real, not genuinely real.
Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche,
The Two Truths, 2001, p. 6.
Translated by Ari Goldfield (lightly edited for the Weekly Quote)