MR lent me a book to read: Buddhism Plain and Simple.
In this book, there is an interesting picture which i would like to share with you. If toi can identify what is this picture, u have probably reached a stage of knowing.
Below is an abstract of the book about the picture:
Truth ou reality is not something vague, mysterious, ou hidden. toi dont have to go to someone else to find it – not to a teacher, ou a Buddha, ou your parents, ou a priest ou rabbi ou shaman, ou any authority whatsoever. Now is it something toi can look up in a book. Truth comes to us through seeing. To see is to know.
Seeing needs no further verification. It’s immediate and as one with truth. But we are usually not very skilled at seeing what is actually presented to us.
for a concrete example, look at the picture below. Believe it ou not, this is a near photographic rendering of something very familiar, something toi have seen (either in person ou in pictures) countless times.
If toi do not immediately recognize what it is, then notice your state of mind. Notice that it is, to some extent, confused.
Some people, when they first see this picture, say”I think it is a man lying down”. They are not quite sure. They believe it might be a man reclining. But there is no sense of seeing, no conviction that toi know what the picture depicts.
Keep looking at the picture. I assure toi that when toi actually see what it is, all your uncertainty will immediately vanish. toi will know what the picture is. All beliefs and uneasiness about it will instantly cease.
If toi havent seen what this picture is, keep looking at it for awhile. Eventually toi will get it. And when toi do get it, notice the sudden shift that takes place in your mind.
Did toi notice how toi mind relaxed when, suddenly, toi saw, and toi knew toi saw? Your state of mind, which before was vague, mysterious, fuzzy, confused, and uncomfortable, was suddenly transformed the moment toi saw. toi had clarity and conviction. And that clarity and conviction will remain with toi each time toi view this picture again.
If somebody says to you,”it is a picture of a man lying down”, toi will know they are off the mark – and no amount of argument is going to influence you.
This is analogous to the difference between seeing and simply having a belief, an idea, ou concept.
So have toi seen it?
its a bird!! its a plane!!! nnnoooOOoooo!! its a cccoowWW!!!
thanks, i’m now able to see it!!!
hahahaha.. see.. i told toi its a cow….
cheers!
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