The Mirror Of Life

The Mirror of Life By Sanath Samaranayake

The living is a function of consciousness through millions of physical forms, but we have mistaken it as an individual life. What ever one sees, hears, tastes, smells or touches are only a sensory perception in consciousness. Indeed, that the entity whose senses perceived, is itself. This “mirrored impression” phenomena is a spell of a magician or the consciousness. When you go in front of a mirror, you will find your reflection inside it. This body is a mirror, when you go in front of the world; it shadows or reflects through the mirror. We call that shadow; sound, taste, color etc... or “I am experiencing” some thing and that is what we are screaming all the while as “I taste something", "I see something", "I touch something" etc. This "I am" is a shadow, eclipse, a reflection, falls into a state of obscurity or disuse. This shadow is the world reflecting inside the body. Now the shadow inside the mirror is called as "I am" the subject or the principal or owner of this body, the "experiencer". This is a concomitant body mind process or an activity while we are experiencing something. The perception, recognition, identification, interpretation, action; the entire process of experience in totality is perceived as the “I am”. But it's a shadow appeared in the body because of your memory. This "I am" is the total collection of memories, performing in the body mind as a thought process. The body entwines together with memories manifests the world in front of us as a thought form. Memory is of the world or of this phenomenon, the universe. Memory is not the reality it’s like a dream, shadow or a mirage. Although it seems real, its not there, it’s just a trace of past experience in a thought form. The intellect consists of what we have absorbed from outside of your body or from the universe as memory tracers and operating as a pseudo entity as the “I am”. In this dialogue an important concept you have to understand here is the Intellect. It is the power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands, as distinguished from that by which one feels and that by which one wills; the

understanding; the faculty of thinking and acquiring knowledge. Once again, this will all depend on the body-mind. When this pseudo entity appears in the body as a thought form, we are passing through or experiencing “duration” which labels as “Time”. Any thing you perceive at the present moment expand in the duration when you relate the perception with past, the “moment” gets expressed in relation to past, present or future. You will find a “going concern” an existing entity in the Time or in that experience. While we experience volume, it is termed as “Physicality”. We perceive an objective phenomenon out side the body. The object reality is once again a thought form based on the memory, an illusion created due to the limited speed perception of the body; we do not perceive the entirety of the universe but a minute speck of a version under the disguise of the speed perceiveability of the body. . This time and space continuum is the experiencing of the world through this body mind as a separate entity “I am” in the thought form. But this is a sensorial perception; in fact merely a cognition in consciousness.

But you will see now the subject "I am" is just a shadow of the world, it consist of external or worldly things as memory chunks. It's not the most valuable thing we call "I am" or subject here, but it’s the world that appears inside you as a tincture or a shadow, a dream, a mirage, or a phantom. Imagine it's a drama; the world is experiencing itself through your body-mind. You do have to understand the body or the physical form and the thought or the mental form as the make up of the world. The body consists of what we eat, drink, respire etc. finally this body is a transformation state of physicality. The thought is a memory response or the mechanism to call something to one's conscious mind. And memory is the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences of the world. It again is a change in form of the world in to a mental construe. Therefore, this body and mind is nothing other than the universe working as a psychosomatic apparatus which allows you to perceive

and cognize the world into a mental & physical form in a subject object relationship and then reasoning and selecting process based on the duality of the interdependent opposites like love hate happy unhappy bring the spice of the life. In a way, the functions of this apparatus are a reporting phenomenon. A reporter who reports about himself is reading about himself through this body-mind or through himself. The universe is reading its own autobiography through this apparatus. In another perspective, it helps the world to experience itself through this apparatus.

Indeed, the unstoppable process taking place in this body mind is a drama a Puppet Show we are watching here. We are just puppets, the intellect the puppeteer is making us play. But without understanding this phenomenon we call it as “I am experiencing" .....That’s not. The concept of this mistaken separate entity has ridden the man to suffer and therefore seek liberation from the bondage, enlightenment and accomplish various feats. The man has not understood about this shadow phenomenon, there is no separate “thinking”, feeling”, “doing” entity in this body-mind process, nor a doer, the memory has created the time and space continuum, it’s a relative process, the illusion of cause and effect is a result of the memory, the volition or the free will we think we could exercise is just a delusion invented by the memory. Altogether we have misconstrued the dependent arising phenomenon as a separate existing entity. Aren’t you see with all these efforts we are going to reform that shadow. Are we able to resolve a shadow? We think that, this play is real and we are delighted for a moment and sorrowful in a another. We want to keep the pleasurable moments and get rid of anguish. Try to amend the shadow. Just imagine what we have not done to make this life flawless. We want to participate in retreats do meditation, Yoga, Prayers, , rituals and perform hundreds of things to amend, reform, rectify this shadow or this pseudo entity "I am". So please remember, there is nothing to correct here but, only what you have to do is to understand this phenomena without any doubt. Don’t mislead by the word “understanding”, it’s no way an intellectual

recitation but an experimental way of trying to penetrate or perceive “Who you are “. Just imagine an ice cube is searching, experimenting, and trying to understand what water is. The world created by the psychosomatic apparatus is a dream like state, a shadow, a mirage manifested in the mind as a thought form. Every association with people, objects, and ideas is a dream. But however, life is a dream until such time; we think that we are separated from this world. We are the world there is no entity 'I am" separated from this universe. “I am” is a droplet of water separated from the ocean of universe. The moment we are experiencing the world through a body-mind apparatus, we are an isolated creature. This miscomprehension is created by the memory and knowledge; it has lead to the formation or experiencing of time and space. We claim this whole phenomenon as the pseudo entity. It's a play; universe is playing. We are just actors playing a role. Why do you want to personalize this universal role play in to an "I am" model? Wake up from this dream. Let the universe express its play through our body-mind .This understanding will only give you the fullness of this life.