If you stand before a mirror, you will see your entire reflection as one. That is ‘oneness’. But if that mirror is shattered into two or three pieces, you may see two or three noses, six or seven eyes and a large number of hands. That is the nature of a shattered mirror. There is no ‘oneness’ in it. One piece of the mirror reflects one way, another one in another way. Each piece reflects light in its own way, making images, a number of abnormal images. Dear Friends, our scattered thoughts create an even greater abnormality. Nothing that falls on it is true. Just as how false the reflections of that shattered mirror were, even more so false is what is told by these scattered thoughts. The entire world, finally, is a reflection that falls on our mind. So, that reflection is a great absurdity. The external world that we see, not only others, but even one’s own self is a great absurdity. Why? One’s self is in fact a collection of reflections that appears in a mirror that is shattered to a countless number of pieces. Therefore, what meditation does is to make one’s inner self an un-shattered mirror. If at any moment, un-shattered thoughts enter an un-shattered mind, then what we hear, see, think, at that moment we will perceive as they are. That is why it is stated in the Dhamma that a concentrated mind perceives things as they are.
'' Learn to forgive yourself too for all the mistakes you have made in the
past, not holding onto these wounds by having guilt and remorsein
relation to them; and also letting go of the wounds that have been
created by others. Learn to accept yourself as you are,and learn to
accept others as they are, without an image of how you or they should
be.'' - Godwin Samararathne
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