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Creator of the World
“When light touches the eyes, signals move to the brain, and—together with the force of past karma—a moment of vision arises in the mind.
For that brief instant, the mind is the seeing.
When one moment ends, another arises, as long as the eye continues to receive signals.
When the eyes close, the stream of signals stops, and the visual world dissolves instantly.
The same is true for the other four gateways: the nose, ears, tongue, and body. When these senses are active, they give rise to the world you experience. When they fall silent, that world collapses and only memories can create appearances in the mind.
Thus the ‘world’ is born when the five senses engage, and the ‘world’ ends when the senses withdraw. This does not mean nothing exists outside—only that the mind never touches the external directly.
It perceives only its own constructions, a world shaped from fleeting impressions and ancient karma.
Knowing this, one understands: we do not live in the world—we live in the mind’s rendering of it.”
Love this. We never actually have an experience of an ‘outside world’ only what is rendered by our senses. Because all humans have the same senses, we all see the same thing. But if you were to able to sense infra-red, for example, the world would appear very different. Great post!