Greetings and salutations.
Yesterday, I posted this in the non-duality forum:
http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/sh...7&postcount=99
It illustrates this quite nicely...and apart from being a Hindu (by attributed definition), there are quite a
lot of Zen aspects to my beliefs as well (as you may have all guessed by now).
I was actually going to make a thread about Qingyuan Weixin but meanwhile, happy soul made
this thread.
Here is a link taken from that post in the non-duality forum (for all who missed it the first time).
http://thetattooedbuddha.com/2015/11...ess-of-things/
Perception is only a limited/stifled view of reality, but also a reflection OF reality, which has been totally distorted through the senses and the mind according to beliefs, conditioning and cognitive bias.
There is also a beautiful story which goes...
There is a member on here called Honza. When I first joined up here, Honza introduced themselves by using their real name...Jan.
Now, seeing as how, in my conditioning, I thought Jan was short for Janette or Janice or something of the sort, I thought "aha! that must mean Honza is a woman"...and for over two years, I thought so.
Yesterday, somebody referred to Honza as a 'he' (and I mean, I don't bother looking at people's personal profiles) and I went about correcting them, saying "no, Honza is a girl, not a bloke...her name is Jan".
What followed was Honza coming on and correcting
me saying that he was, indeed male and "Jan" is the Czech form of "John" and he was Czech.
Then what followed was me experiencing an immediate satori (after apologising and making amends to Jan, of course).
There is a word in Sanskrit, it is called Mithya (false perception) and rather than type out an essay on it, I'll just provide another link:
http://www.advaita-vision.org/origin...e-word-mithya/
It also is beautifully illustrated by the Blind Men and Elephant tale, which I posted yesterday as well:
https://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/b...e-elephant.htm
Sorry for hitting you with all these links, but they all relate and are interwoven in this tale...
Reality can be thus broken down into 'subjective', 'objective' and 'transcendent' and to experience a reality on the physical level, is like seeing one pixel on a TV screen and thinking they can see the whole picture because they cannot see any more than one pixel and think that's all there is to it.