Longchenpa knew 2

The losses of the global financial crisis are some 4 trillion dollars, according to IMF, the International Monetary Fund.
If we would exchange this sum into dollar coins it would probably be a huge pile. Would this pile prove that the sum in question represented a real, tangible value?
Probably not. According to Longchenpa the 4 trillion was nothing but the brightness of the mirror's surface.
So, should we try to restore the losses? Or is there something more valuable? Dismiss any speculations and fears, Longchenpa recommended.
Comfort is not in the specific, neither in intellectual description, nor in subjective demands, Longchenpa said.

Sheer lucency 2

Meaning can be found on many levels of mind. Which is the deepest, most profound? In the Tibetan tradition we find a discussion about experience as experience, as different from a particular experience of something.
These ideas from the Tibetan master Longchenpa were introduced into English by
Herbert V. Guenther in his book "Kindly Bent to Ease Us".
So we have these levels:
1) actually do things out there
2) act as if you do things out there
3) talk as if you do things out there
4) turn to the mind within yourself
The levels show the tension between the socially accepted and meaningfulness.
Meaningfulness does not mean that we can not actually do things out there. Meaningfulness is the understanding of whatever we do.
Whatever we do has a meaningfulness of its own - an inner logic - and this meaningfulness is something different from the existential meaningsfulness.