If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have
to be a horrible warning.
-- Catherine Aird
+~
+THE MIND OF CLEAR LIGHT
+
+ Is spiritual practice really worthwhile? Is it really possible to eliminate
+from within ourselves the forces that give rise to suffering? As is said,
+“The ultimate nature of mind is clear light.” Consciousness has many
+levels, and although the coarser levels are affected by the defiling forces,
+the most subtle level remains free of gross negativities. In the Vajrayana
+this subtle level of consciousness is called the mind of clear light.
+ The delusions and emotional afflictions as well as the dualistic mind of
+right and wrong, love and hatred, etc., are associated only with the coarse
+levels of consciousness. At the moment, we are totally absorbed in the
+interplay of these coarse states, so we must begin our practice by working
+within them. This means consciously encouraging love over hate, patience in
+place of anger, emotional freedom rather than attachment, kindness over
+violence, and so forth. Doing this brings immediate peace and calm to the
+mind, thus making higher meditation possible.
+ Then, because grasping at a self and at phenomena as being truly existent is
+the cause of all the vast range of distorted states of mind, one cultivates
+the wisdom that eliminates this ego-grasping. To overcome ego-grasping is to
+overcome the entire host of mental distortions.
+ -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
int should_be_failure = fred.write(to_fake_stuff);
ASSERT_EQUAL(should_be_failure, 0, "write on read only, should not succeed");
-/// int fredsize = int(fred.size());
-/// fred.chunk_factor(fredsize);
-
#ifdef DEBUG_BYTE_FILER
- LOG(a_sprintf("about to try reading from file %d bytes", fredsize));
+ LOG(a_sprintf("about to try reading from file %d bytes", block_size * 2));
#endif
byte_array file_contents;
int bytes_read = fred.read(file_contents, block_size * 2);