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Suzanne Jeffrey Sensation Memory Thought Wisdom Illustration #8 and amalgamate them for true understanding. "Of course, the mind works properly if all things are working properly. But, as we are aware, nothing is really always working perfectly. If we receive the wrong input, then everything else is input incorrectly. If we are drunk, or sick, or angry, or in the wrong environment, then all of the information we receive goes into our mind incorrectly. And that is why meditation is so important, because it cleans the mind. The same thing happens to students, of course, and you need to remember this. "This information is from the Buddha, because He could see His own mind and what it looked like, and He could see His past lives and the past lives of other people as well. This was the first supreme enlightenment: He could see the structure of the mind, and He could see His past lives. "The second supreme enlightenment was when He saw the mind become dark because of greed, anger, and delusion. Remember that when the mind is still, without defilements, it is clear, more free, more firm. But when it is not, when the mind has defilement, then we begin to do evil things. At the time of the second supreme enlightenment, the Buddha 104