The Clarity of the Mirror
A mirror has no colors of its own, and so it is able to reflect every color.
Precisely because it is so empty, it has the ability to reflect everything without distortion. If your eye was red, you would see all as red. But it is colourless.
So one has to become like a mirror. No opinions, no concepts, no ideas of ones own. Then, in that state of empty mind, one is able to see clearly.
The mind, like a mirror, when empty of attachment, judgment, and preconceived notions, reflects reality as it is - without distortion, without bias. It also, can be colourless.
However, an interesting paradox arises - if one clings to the idea of 'having no ideas' or 'being empty,' that itself becomes a concept, a subtle attachment. True mirroring then is not a forced emptiness but a natural openness, an effortless clarity.
This clarity can, I think, only come upon one naturally, effortlessly, through effortless being.
Most people's mirrors (minds) are quite dirty. They reflect poorly. And so we have racism, borders, capitalism, poorly understood religions and all the rest of it.
I don't know how to clean the mirror. I know only that it happened to me.
Through, I guess, discarding beliefs. Since I never was a racist, first I discarded the belief in capitalism. Then I discarded the belief in socialism. Then, nationalism. Then, religions and dogma. And many more. Until nothing remained except the void.
But the void was not empty. It was full of potential. Full of colours. So I guess I found the void of non-void. And by becoming colourless, I became able to see every colour.
In what colours do you see the world in your minds eye? Is it democratic? fascistic? Or is it perhaps every colour?