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“WE SEE OTHERS AND WORLD EXACTLY THE SAME WAY WE SEE OURSELVES.”

We can only perceive others and the world to the same depth as we see ourselves.

If we perceive something as “evil” through the memories of experiences, then we will see something as the same way of “evil” in others.

Can you see that there is no distinction in our perception between self and other?

In the same way, we will likely think that the “ideal way of being” we impose on ourselves should be the same for others without any doubt. Or, if we think we found something wrong with others, then we will likely have a strong desire to change or control others to make them be the same way of ourselves.

If we don’t question what we see and the various value judgments, mere thoughts that arise in the mind, and if we don’t examine to inwardly inquiry where they are coming from and even cannot see yet through the fact as it is, then it must be easy for us to be trapped in, except with effort not to do by consious mind, so-called “suffering” – the dispute, the resentment, or discomfort, and so on.

Or perhaps we would turn a blind eye to such facts, or we would blame others for everything that goes wrong because we might feel nowhere to be solved them – in other words, we would in the end, deny the facts, reality.

Or, if we insist that our basis for this is that it is written in some spiritual scripture, then we need to see through much deeper into the source of that certainty.

For example, have we ever heard of “observer effect” (where the act of observation itself affects the observed) in psychology and even physics? How we ever taken it consideration with our current perception?

Or have you ever played the telephone game? It is a game where we enjoy the phenomenon of a message changing in various ways as it is passed from person to person, eventually becoming something completely different from the original message.

This is not because someone received or passed the wrong message along the way, but simply because different things remain strongly in conscious mind at that time for each person. In other words, what is recognized as important in the conscious mind at that time differs from person to person. Even if the big picture has been visible from a broad, holistic perspective, which is the subconscious mind, if it is not recognized with awareness, no one can perceive it. Therefore, no matter how the message changes, it does not mean that someone did something wrong at all.

So, then can we still insist with certainty that our current perception is not being narrowed by such the conscious mind?

Cases like these clearly support what the sages say: “the observer and the observed are not separate,” that is, “both are indivisible.”

In other words, “Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.”

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If each of us can observe ourselves inwardly without any judgement whatsoever that we spontenaously ask ourselves, “So where does the origin of my judgment come from?,” and carefully, if we can patiently but thoroughly look into every single one of our own words and reactions we have ever taken, one by one, then eventually, through the clarity of innermost stillness, we may be able to clearly see through the reality of what is, for example, “there was no firm basis for that judgment.”

It is the moment the beliefs we’ve held without question—the “righteousness”or “correctness” we’ve unconsciously been attached to—will effortlessly disappears without a trace like a mirage.

Furthermore, if we can look even deeper, we’ll see that we were merely clinging to the idea that we judged unilaterally whether people, including ourselves, align with the values ​​we’d been clinging to, and took that judgement to be real.

And we will also realize that such a person does not exist in the first place, that we have simply unconsciously been projecting it onto reality. And moreover, we might be able to even see through the “I” we have been identifying with the thinker or doer with such values ​​is a completely insubstantial.

At that time, the illusion of “I” can be crumble, and we will come to realize that all that remains is non-self—pure existence, formless consciousness.

Furthermore, it can be the moment when awareness itself becomes aware of awareness.

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Always turn inward.

Whenever we become aware that we are caught up in separation in duality—the world, the people, and the self of “I” and that we believe they need to change, it is the time to dig much deeper within.

In this way, we will in due time be able to see through illusions that we don’t even realize are illusions until then.

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Absolute reality is always perfect.

We do not live in a distorted world; the worlds merely appear and disappear as impermanence within the field of the non-self, the pure consciousness, The Self that is immutable with no center or fixed point timelessly and spacelessly, instead.

It means, if we remain trapped in our perception of the world as distorted, we will never see the truth.

Therefore, get into the habit of not getting attached to any state of being, but asking ourselves more profound questions and always seeing the absolute reality, the unknown, through pure openness. (OM 🙏)