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 anda 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 atau reality is not something vague, mysterious, atau hidden. anda dont have to go to someone else to find it – not to a teacher, atau a Buddha, atau your parents, atau a priest atau rabbi atau shaman, atau any authority whatsoever. Now is it something anda 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 atau not, this is a near photographic rendering of something very familiar, something anda have seen (either in person atau in pictures) countless times.
If anda 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 anda know what the picture depicts.
Keep looking at the picture. I assure anda that when anda actually see what it is, all your uncertainty will immediately vanish. anda will know what the picture is. All beliefs and uneasiness about it will instantly cease.
If anda havent seen what this picture is, keep looking at it for awhile. Eventually anda will get it. And when anda do get it, notice the sudden shift that takes place in your mind.
Did anda notice how anda mind relaxed when, suddenly, anda saw, and anda knew anda saw? Your state of mind, which before was vague, mysterious, fuzzy, confused, and uncomfortable, was suddenly transformed the moment anda saw. anda had clarity and conviction. And that clarity and conviction will remain with anda each time anda view this picture again.
If somebody says to you,”it is a picture of a man lying down”, anda 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, atau concept.
So have anda seen it?
its a bird!! its a plane!!! nnnoooOOoooo!! its a cccoowWW!!!
thanks, i’m now able to see it!!!
hahahaha.. see.. i told anda its a cow….
cheers!
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