The human mind is like a video
The human mind is like a video.
This means people live their lives in an illusion from birth.
It is comparable to a video
because, through the eyes, ears,
nose, mouth, and body
- the five senses -
they take pictures of everything they experience
and store them within.
These become form the "self"
and dictate how they live and behave.
As people live out their lives within this mind
- this "film" -
they take pictures of their hometown,
their years in elementary, middle, and high school,
college, marriage, career, and religious life.
Not only have they taken pictures
of their entire past in their mind,
but they will continue to do so
even in the future
of all that they see hear, speak, smell, and feel.
For example, anyone who has been to a beach
will have an image of the beach in their mind.
The human mind works exactly like a camera.
The images on film in the camera are not real;
they are false.
The actual beach is what is real.
What is inside the mind is false,
just like images on a reel of film.
This is why we are told to cleanse and empty our minds,
as people are living inside a video.
People have always lived inside this mind, this film,
and have never once seen or lived
in the complete world.
This is what sin is; what karma is.
Your whole life,
including everything that happened today,
was simultaneously taken as a picture
the moment you saw it.
Moreover, you are inside that film, the picture.
When you think carefully about your day today,
wasn't it all inside your mind?
We can live as one with the complete world
when we destroy this picture world
and come out from within it.
Thus, the mind that we must cleanse and empty
is the world of pictures.
The real world is already complete,
and it is already enlightened.
Only humans are incomplete
for they live in a picture world.
When seen from the real world, it is non-existent
and when a person who is within this mind world dies,
they disappear forever.
