“It’s like rain water, which is water that’s clear and clean. Its clarity is normally clean. But if we put green or yellow dye into it, the water will turn green or yellow. It’s the same with the mind. When it meets up with a preoccupation it likes, it’s at ease. When it meets up with a preoccupation it doesn’t like, it’s ill at ease. It’s like a leaf blown by the wind. It flutters. You can’t depend on it.
Flowers and fruits also get blown by the breeze. If they get blown by the breeze and fall from the tree, they never ripen. It’s the same with the minds of human beings. Preoccupations blow them around, drag them around, pull them around, so that they fall—just like the fruit.”