Equal Mind in All

  It's not always easy to have equal awareness to everything in the world. I think one of the best ways to do so is to recognize that all things have an equal place in mind, even though what one experiences is different. I remember reading about this in Francis Cook's Jewel Net of Indra, where he talks about how in the Huayen Buddhist system, a grain of sand is equal to a tiger and vice versa. This doesn't mean that the tiger is identical to the grain of sand (which would be logically absurd) but from the perspective of mind, the way a tiger comes to exist in mind is the same as how a grain of sand exists in mind. The same thing goes with many tasks in life. Even if I prefer writing essays to taking out the garbage, in fact the two phenomena come from the same source, and are generated in mind. They are thoughts, and by virtue of being of the mind, they share the same source. In this way, by pointing these events or relationships back to the very same mind, they no longer appear as drastically or dramatically different, and I stop picking and choosing one over the other.
   When one is clear about this, it would seem that the mind is better able to rest in the present activity that requires doing. For instance, in truly seeing what I am typing here as coming from the same source (causes and conditions arising in mind), there would be less compulsion to replace it with something more 'desirable' or palatable, such as drinking a coffee. This helps me to see that I don't need to prefer or privilege one action as 'more mind-like' than another, as long as I can clearly see that these actions are created by the same mind.
    But as soon as I privilege one thing over another, a desire forms around a perceived object, followed by the subject. Then I think, "I need to have this", not realizing that the mechanism of wanting to have something is artificially generated by an illusory, distinct object and subject. Can I go back to the realization that there is truly no subject and object?