The World

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How can the mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal?

 

That is the significance of the comparison made between the world of the waking

state and the dream world.

 

Both are creations of the mind and, so long as the mind is engrossed in either,

it finds itself unable to deny their reality.

 

It cannot deny the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming and it

cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it is awake.

 

If, on the contrary, the mind is seen for what it is, a notion, inferred by the

memory of experiences, (an apperception obvioulsy not possible by the mind) and

there is an abidance there, ..........the apperception that the world of which

you are now aware is just as unreal as the world in which you lived your dream.

 

 

As Fred Allen Wolf states in, Parallel Universes,........

 

Mind, I believe, exists as fleeting energy in parallel universes. The universe

we perceive consists of the overlap of these fleeting flashes of energy. The

patterns create mind as surely as they create matter. Both the existence of

matter and the perception of it are the same thing.

 

As Humberto Maturana prattles in , The Tree of Knowledge ........

 

 

"For the operation of the nervous system, there is no inside or outside,

but only maintenance of correlations that continuously change (like the

indicator instruments in a submarine)."

"Self-consciousness, awareness, mind - these are phenomena that take place in

language.."

"'Mind' is not an entity but can be ascribed to a system exhibiting regular

behavior."

 

 

As Vasco Ronchi affirms in , Optics, The Science of Vision

 

The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its

brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The

figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the

true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's

psyche has created and localized how and where it can."

 

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The greatest saint, even if he has sacrificed a thousand times all that he held

most dear, even his life itself, for love of others, for that of a God or for a

noble ideal, remains a prisoner of samsara if he has not understood that all

that is a childish game, empty of reality, a useless phantasmagoria of shadows

which his own mind projects on the infinite screen of the Void"

 

 

- The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhism