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.