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By
Sanath Samaranayake
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".
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.
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.
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".
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.