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After reading your post, I tried thinking of all I saw as a reflection of mind as I went about town today, but I don't think I was quite getting it because I was too absorbed by the idea philosophically. I think you have to develop the understanding separately from applying it so that in application you aren't still ruminating how it could be so. My thought about non-thought was interfering with non-thought. I can see what you mean though when you call the mind a mirror in a hall of mirrors. Projection seems to be the source of everything we perceive. We see ourselves in our projections about others and yet even our very existence is like a projection of the formless into form. Seeing that my beloved Luminous Emptiness itself is projected in all I see, I have stopped making an enemy out of projections. I'm content now for them to be there, I just don't choose to believe they are real anymore. Or rather, I pray that I might no longer believe they are real, since most of the time I still buy into the lie and only intellectually understand that what I perceive is not truly existent as what I perceive it to be. I do find it very useful, however we achieve it, to allow the mind to merely reflect what it sees “instead of absorbing it.” Don't believe the hype, is how I phrase it. I have no aggression against the fact that my mind seems obsessed with a nearly endless stream of thoughts about this that and everything. It's okay, because its just something showing on the screen. I often think of this world as a movie, but the mirror concept goes one step further because it addresses not only the original projection of the script playing out, but also includes the interaction of the screen itself. The screen (the mirror) doesn't just display what is projected on it; it adds new projections to bounce off all the other screens. It's an intricate game of validation, where we each can say “I must be real because you are reflecting me” and yet none is real. It is all interdependently arising, to use a Buddhist phrase. Well, the mind circles now, so I'll stop here. Blessings.
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