Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
When you look in to a mirror, is it your self you see? or who is the person in the mirror?
Question is related to the post about ego.
Question is related to the post about ego.
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reflection in a mirror
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When I look in the mirror, I see my jiva.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Although this is not a bad question, I think the better question would be: When you look into a mirror, who do you hope to see?
When you look in the mirror, you see the light reflected from the mirror. That light has the same wavefront as light coming from a person behind the mirror, so it looks like there is a person behind the mirror,
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Also a very good way to form the question yes
and often people see what they "want" to see, and not the actual body
You can ask a similar question if your mirror is curved and the 'image' is larger or smaller than the original (you). You see light reflected which forms an image.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Does the image in the mirror has life too?
The image is just a wavefront for the light. It is like a hologram (although much less sophisticated). There is nothing 'actually there'.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
What we see is created in our brain then
What we see is created in our brain then
Well, the light is not created in our brains. it exists and carries information. Our brains *interpret* the light that our eyes pick up. But they do that whether there is a mirror or not. We *never* see anything except via the light reflected from it that goes into our eyes.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
What we see is created in our brain then
Isn't it more interpreted than created? Wouldn't the laws of physics that says matter cannot be created or destroyed also apply here?
Thief
Rogue Theologian
hopefully.....a reflection that can stand before God and heaven
I believe heaven seeks a reflection of it's self
it is written.....heaven is within you
BSM1
What? Me worry?
No water spots.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
On the reflection or the reflectee?
On the mirror itself...but sometime it turns out they're just on my glasses...and and thereby in the mirror as well.
Which is why God created hoods.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
When we see something we investigate what we see but a question that arise is, is the physical wold actually real? or is it our mind that create it from our thoughts?
Example is when we sit in deep meditation and experience that the world around us and the body disapear. can we say that the world exist then? it is not so that only when we use the 5 senses that we can experience the world as seen with our physical eyes?
When the wisdom eye (third eye) opens we can see that the world is not as physical as we was taught?
BSM1
What? Me worry?
I don't disagree. However, over time I have determined that we exist in what I see as a "concrete illusion". In other words, if you step off a tall building you will probably fall to your death. No matter how much you wish to believe that gravity is an illusion, it is not. But if you want to look at the entire experience of living this episode you may find that the premise is a contrived riddle, an illusion. If you accept this part of your existence as the illusion, you would have no emotional reason to step off the building in the first place, imho.