Caught in the mirror of profound brightness.

We can be sure that most of our lives are about intense reaction to what is going on inside us and around us. We can liken this to a cat who attacks its own reflection in a mirror. On the one hand it doesn't realise the reflection is itself, thinking there is another cat which attacks it. But on the other, it also doesn't realise the reflection is not itself. It's not a cat that's there but a 'mirror cat'.

Meanwhile we miss entirely the nature of the mirror itself, which we could say is a metaphor for reality. There's no separate mirror because it is never found without the image it reflects. But clearly, the mirror and the cat are 2 completely different things. Everything in this world is real, but only in the sense that it is a 'mirror image', rather than any one person, place or thing totally independent from everything else.

When you begin to grasp this, your whole world changes. It ceases to hold the seriousness it did, which means, rather paradoxically, you fall headlong into the mirror and interact with it even more than before. Everything that happens takes place in a bright sea of light inseparable from awareness. You constantly fill with pure love and absorb it. This is a simultaneous play of joy and togetherness as you join with all beings in what is an incredible, ever-changing, luminous purification space.