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“EVERYONE IS YOUR MIRROR.”

Every person is a mirror that accurately reflects all of your inner states of unconsciousness, down to the smallest detail, from your values as outlook on life, such as your blind beliefs, assumptions, interpretations, or, unconscious projections from past, to your emotional likes and dislikes about yourself.

So, when you look at others, be aware that, through them, you are being shown yourself as you are, who may not be who you think they are.

You might even see a side of yourself you hadn’t realized before.

It will be a refreshing realization.

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For example, suppose you see someone committing a crime.

At that moment, a surge of disgust might well up inside you.

And this is the power of the mirror.

In other words, you might have perceived, because you unconsciously hold to a worldview of good and evil and believe that humans should be righteous, you perceived committing a crime as “bad” or “the lowest thing a human being can do,” and that may be why such disgust wells up.

This is one example of how attachment to certain thoughts, values can create emotions.

Then, you will be able to reveal its roots or its unfoundedness through seeing through where did that worldview come from, also how true that belief is, or how one-sided it is and so on.

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As another example, suppose someone reacts angrily to your words or (re)actions.

The essential points and facts to note here are…

• Consciousness is a pure field where infinite possibilities emerge, and this realm is not limited to individuals at all. “Thoughts,” which the mind (ego) perceives as personal, appear in this field of impersonal consciousness and become the starting point for the various unfolding of infinite possibilities through interconnectedness, or its attachment has various influences on that unfolding.
• These “thoughts,” numbering between 60,000 and 90,000, simply come and go throughout the day. Of these, the ones that particularly interest us or that we unconsciously cling to vary depending on our respective spiritual challenges at that time.

• In this way, from thoughts that simply appear and disappear within a single field of consciousness, becoming trapped in a particular thought and regarding that view, that experience as personally our own gives rise to an emotional reaction.

• Through these awareness of our own clinging, a person can sincerely face themselves, come to some kind of realization, and complete the spiritual challenge that lies there. This is part of spiritual awakening or enlightenment, but at this time, it must happen on its own, that is, not by a seeker, doer as a personal self, but let it happen without any desire but pure curiosity or inquiry as non-self.

• There are some people that become trapped by “thoughts” that don’t bother you at all, but this is a manifestation of that person’s spiritual challenge. The reverse is also true; you may be trapped by some “thoughts” that other people don’t bother at all, and you just don’t yet realize it.
  In other words, what you see through any person’s reaction may be a trap in a spiritual challenge you have already completed, or it may be something that you will realize you are trapped in in the now.

In this way, if we look at the facts alone, it becomes clear that, from the thoughts that simply appear and disappear in the field of impersonal consciousness, and people sometimes react to special “thoughts” triggered by the words and (re)actions of others, but in fact, there is nothing actually there.

You will then clearly see that there is no substance at all, and that there is also no need for you to react emotionally to them at all.

They are simply working on a spiritual challenge that is necessary for that person, so if you can sincerely embrace that fact, all that is needed is done.

Or, if you find yourself reacting in some way, either externally or internally, to the other person’s reaction before you realize that it is nothing personal at all, you will be able to understand that there is a spiritual challenge of your own here. And once you realize it, you will be even able to see through to its root through inquiry from there.

This is an example of self-observation and self-inquiry.

This is pure observation and inquiry, without the mind’s (ego’s) judgments of “good or bad” getting involved at all.

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If you can truly realize this fact that “people are mirrors,” every person you meet will become a teacher that helps you understand more about yourself, and you will naturally feel grateful for the opportunities you encounter.

Moreover, you as witness, will sooner or later, even feel amazed at the natural unfolding of the universe through interconnectedness, which transcends the individual, how it allows you to be spiritually aware of The impersonal Self, and the fact that there is even no one to awaken anywhere to begin with. (OM 🙏)