' Assumed reality '...

The solidity of our uncomfortable sense of self and the dissatisfaction with itself, and its world of relationships and meanings, is purely the mind’s own subjectivity, and are not objectively existing realities or truths.

Nothing can appear in consciousness except how our mind constructs it. It’s possible to see the empty, totally insubstantial nature of those mental and emotionally flavored constructions.

By only focusing on their “assumed” reality, we energize their apparent solidity.

It’s like watching a movie intensely at a theater while completely ignoring the blank and pristine movie screen the images are appearing on, and can’t appear without.

Or it’s like having to clean a mirror. It’s not done by attempting to remove the reflections, but by shifting one’s attention from the images to the clear glass of the mirror itself; it’s just a shift of attention, not a denial or need to alter and remove the reflections.

We can do this. We can shift attention from our self’s story line and it’s attending emotional and physical aspects (the reflections) to the pure awareness (the movie screen or mirror) in which and upon which, they are appearing.

The perceptions as sights, sounds and sensations we experience, carry no meaning at all from their own side. The meanings, definitions and labels assigned are generated subjectively or are agreed with, as acts of our own mind.

This means all meanings and significance regarding our self, its world, and of its relationships, can only be found to be thoughts.

Reducing this further; we see there is really only momentary perceptions, our thoughts about them, and the empty but awake Awareness in which they appear.

By simply nakedly observing perceptions, thoughts and feelings, the observing awareness is discovered to be independent and free from its own appearing projections.

It’s our always present Buddha Mind that has never been conditioned by even its own most powerful projections
of an “objectively existing” self and its objectively existing world of people, relationships and things which seem to carry their own meaning and significance, from their own side.


-Jackson Peterson