bind the worldly in the prison of samsara.
-- Nagarjuna, from "Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend with Commentary by
Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche", published by Shambhala Publications.
+~
+ The wish to understand the true nature of mind by relying on technology is
+due to the fault of not having awakened one’s Buddha nature, and because of
+that, the absolute and relative nature of one’s uncompounded mind just as it
+is cannot be recognized even slightly, which is the reason for relying only on
+the compounded gross material substance of technology. While examining the
+qualities of one’s own and others’ practice by bringing together a machine
+and the one who uses the machine, if any special conception arises about its
+being good, bad, high, or low, it will only be a fragmented, deluded
+interdependent conception that momentarily appears, and not nonconceptual
+enlightened body and wisdom, which are inconceivable. It will just be like
+children blowing bubbles in the air and trying to catch these rainbow-colored
+bubbles with their hands. As Santideva says about the dream of a barren
+woman:
+ For example, a barren woman dreams her son is dead. When she awakens, she
+thinks that she has no son. That conception of not having a son comes from
+the conception of having a son. So, both of these conceptions are obstacles
+and also delusion.
+ -- Thinley Norbu, from "The Sole Panacea: A Brief Commentary on the Seven-
+ Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That Cures the Suffering of the Sickness of
+ Karma and Defilement", published by Shambhala Publications.
+