This chapter beautifully captured Bodhisattva’s perfections of generosity and morality. The importance, usefulness and challenges of one’s mind is highlighted throughout this chapter. However, from my understanding of the text, it is only our minds that we are capable of controlling since one can decide to be generous, and to believe different values, like what is right or wrong. It is true that we have a wandering mind, that our thoughts constantly change and we usually come up with new ideas. Our brains are always functioning, allowing it to be essential to Buddhist training, especially on the path to awakening. Even with excessive training of the mind, it certainly must be true that everything that happens in the world cannot be controlled.
