The wisdom
An intelligent examination of a picture
Look at this picture …..
You must pay 100% attention to this story without the mind being derailed here &there.
What are the  things in it?
You have trees, houses, cattle, garden, herbs & many more in it.
Think a bit …..
Are these things actually having within this picture?
No…..
See….!
This only a picture or camera photo.
You have only the various types of colors in it or color collection.
Isn’t it? Yes it is ……nothing more than that.
1. One color makes a shape to which we call it a Home.
2. Another color makes another shape to which we call a tree.
3. Another one makes another shape to which we call cattle.
So, really speaking, photo means a color collection or color collection called a photo. You do not have animals or inanimate things within it.Naming of these color shapes are done by you by your mind.
Shall we do a small experiment?
Take a white paper, pencil &draw a picture &  then color it.
You draw a nice picture of what you want
Now look at the picture
You have many things drawn in it.
Do they actually have in it?
No ….. only the white paper on which you have pencil marks &coloring materials , so , if you say men , women & children or animals in it , that is an idea only within you, no proper men women in this drawing , only the water colors in it .
Now you can come to conclusion that naming of whatever picture in this world is  done by you, from within nor really do they have in outside.
Why am I explaining this story in details……
The world you see through your eyes is exactly like this…picture or photo absorb through your eyes is only a color to which we apply names from inside.
This is called DELUSION in Buddhism.
You may have many more examples…..
1. Look at the T.V. screen. You do not have men, women in it. It is too a colored photo.
2. Look at your computer screen. There too you have a colored photo.
3. Go to a cinema & watch a film. On that screen too you have colored photo of various colors to which you paste names saying, this actor, that actor……..etc.
Now you can imagine what a mesh you have already entangled in your life or what a trap placed before you even if you do not know it.
The most pathetic thing is FOR THE COLORS IN THOSE SCREENS OR PICTURES; you tend to LOVE thinking that the colors are humans (men or women) or any other inanimate. Sometimes you hate them due to the same reasons.
But, what you do not know is YOU ARE LOVING COLORS
&
YOU HATE COLORS.
I LL TELL YOU ANOTHER EXPERIMENT
Sit for a while, relax your mind & try to see your mind as it is or Meditate. One day you will have  same phenomenon in your mind too.
Only color photo inside to which we give names by ourselves. ONLY A REFLECTION INSIDE to which we paste names.
The day you see  this marvel , automatically the love or desire to this world or to the pictures of the world getting reduced as well as hate too, giving you an EQUANIMITY.

HOW THE MIND CREATES A PHOTO & HOW IT OPERATES are in  NEXT TIME.
HOW THE MIND MAKES A PHOTO LIVING IS TOO NEXT TIME

By Dr. Dammika Wijerathna