more dharmic insight from sogyal rinpoche and tom

Tom (aka the Dalai Tomma) is my buddhist friend who periodically forwards dharmic email blasts to me, Stevo and Wyeth that he gets from a buddhist email group he subscribes to.

"Training" the mind does not in any way mean forcibly subjugating or brainwashing the mind. To train the mind is first to see directly and concretely how the mind functions, a knowledge that you derive from spiritual teachings and through personal experience in meditation practice. Then you use that understanding to tame the mind and work with it skillfully, to make it more and more pliable, so that you can become master of your mind and employ it to its fullest and most beneficial end. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Tom: This is the technique I employ on you 3. YOU ARE NOT BEING BRAINWASHED. TOM IS THE MASTER OF YOUR MIND! OBEY HIM!