His Holiness the 43rd Sakya Trizin, Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, gave this public talk on December 6, 2025, at the request of Sakya Monastery, Seattle, U.S.A.
How can we claim to know ourselves when we have no idea what thought will arise in our own mind one second from now?
We spend much of our lives looking for certainty—planning the future, carrying responsibilities, and trying to manage the anxieties of a changing world. Yet so much of what we rely on, including our sense of who we are, is more fragile and uncertain than we usually notice.
In this reflection, His Holiness the 43rd Sakya Trizin Gyana, Vajra Rinpoche invites us to look more carefully at what we often take for granted: the world around us, the people we relate to, and even the mind we call “mine.”
Rather than presenting Dharma as distant or abstract, this teaching gently brings us back to a very immediate question: when so much is changing from moment to moment, what do we truly know, and how can we begin to see more clearly?
Source: This teaching was obtained from The Sakya Tradition.
What if everything you call "reality" is just an elaborate trick of the mind?
In this text, you are challenged to confront a startling question: if you cannot predict your very next thought, do you truly know who you are?
Read on to disrupt your assumptions, shift your perspective, and discover the radical power of simplicity.
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