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Maiveeta wrote:Care to tell what you found?
I will, but let me preface it with...
"It depends...."
or
"So what?"
or
"Is that so?"
See what I mean?
I look in the mirror and find a charming young man, bursting with joy, flooded with gratitude. Hey! It's a good day! Yesterday, my mindset was different and I saw a grouchy fuck who didn't feel quite right. Hey! It's a bad day! Just rides in the amusement park.
So what?
I look in the mirror and see a shifting image of my mind.
So what?
There is no object in the mirror. When I look in this mirror, this mirror is my mind. It is the essence of what is. As long as there is an object in that mirror then this is something to be sought after or feared. When this mirror is pure, when I see clearly then I say there is no image in the mirror. This is a pure mirror universe, not showing anything.
We're all fucked up anywho...I see this or that, but is it true? What do you see when you look in my mirror, at me? Or I, at you.
Reminds me of a cheesy flick with Steven Seagal, The Glimmer Man, where he's face to face with 'the bad guy.' He tells 'm something like:
"When you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, I'm certain you are pleased; like what you see. I'm going to make sure you never get to look in that mirror again." Then of course is a fight scene and the bad dude dies a gruesome death.
The point I'm getting at is what you and gonz mentioned; fear and contentment.
What's true and what are we doing to dispell the illusion of the good, bad and ugly in the mirror?
Just accept the image in the mirror?
Sounds dandy, right?
There's more to it though...
Because we all lie to ourselves. We're seeking gain or avoiding fear.
I look in the mirror and see a nice guy. So? You look in the mirror and see a compassionate wife. Yea?
BFD.
How about we raise our awareness and take a look at all the angles. All the manipulations and personal history we have. Whatever we see in the mirror isn't true, regardless of what we see, so who cares what we see? (Other than to assist us in the realization that whatever we see is un-true.)
What are we going to do?
I've found two ways: Recapitulation and Self-Autolysis. One in the same, different, whatever.
We've got to dig up the shit; Who am I? What am I?
Those who have done it, know it. Those who haven't will continue their avoidance and live in fear and continue to lie to themselves and everyone else.
K
P.S. Just went to the mirror again to double-check what was there.
Guess who I saw?
Elvis!
Son-of-a-bitch....
Let me be quiet now...
Elvis has left the building....