ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the reasons that changed the mind of the author and how Tibetan Buddhism helped her to do it. Certainly, Buddhists try to be compassionate, but their compassion is based on using logic and reason rather than blind faith in teachers or tradition testing fearlessly what the teachings say. The early Tibetan Buddhist teachers developed very effective forms of training the mind to focus on valid thoughts and emotions, which correspond to reality and happiness, rather than invalid ones, which are contrary to the way things really are and lead to ignorance and suffering. Since delusions cause our suffering, it must be possible to rid ourselves of suffering by ridding ourselves of the delusions. Buddha said that the true nature of our mind is clear and unstained, like the sky, and that our delusions are like clouds. Clouds do not change the nature of the sky, and delusions do not change the basic pure nature of the mind.
