Nearly all of us have a tendency to identify with the thoughts, feelings, sensations that keep arising moment to moment. As a result, we find ourselves in a constant rush and never get to know what pure stillness and pure silence is.
Seeing this, Osho gives the analogy of a mirror and invites all of us to be like a mirror if we are to know the essence of our being.
In a book titled, “Tantra - The Supreme Understanding”, Osho says:
“Become like a mirror.
Things come and pass and the mirror remains vacant, empty and void. The mirror has no self with which to be identified. It simply reflects. It does not react, it simply responds. It doesn’t say, “This is beautiful, that is ugly.””
The mirror has no past conditioning or the future imaginations with which it perceives the things appearing into its field. It has no preferences.
The tendency of our mind is to create duality. It labels the things as “good and bad,” “moral and immoral,” “beautiful and ugly,” “happiness and sorrow,” “sin and virtue,” and so on.
He continues:
“The mirror says nothing. The mirror simply watches without any distinction, friend or foe. The mirror has no distinction to make. And when somebody passes, goes away from the mirror, the mirror doesn’t cling to it. It is not that the mirror will try to retain the reflection that has happened in it.
This is the mind of a buddha.”
Just imagine, how much suffering a mirror will go through if it starts labeling things and forms an illusory sense of reality. This is the human condition.
Like a mirror, a Buddha realizes the impermanence of all the passing objects and most importantly, the permanence of himSelf.
“Try to understand this metaphor of the mirror because this is the real situation of the inner consciousness. Don’t get identifies with things that are happening around you. Remain centered and rooted in your being. Things are happening and they will continue to happen, but if you can be centered in your mirror-like consciousness, nothing will be the same; the whole has changed.
Remain virgin, innocent, pure.
Nothing can become an impurity to you, absolutely nothing because nothing is retained. You reflect, for a moment somebody is there and then everything is gone. Your emptiness is untouched. Even while a mirror is reflecting somebody, there is nothing happening to the mirror. The mirror is not changing in any way; the mirror remains the same.
This is cutting the very root.”
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