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| Mirror Her mind pondered on gravely and intently, thinking to herself, "Well -- there you are again, you curious creature!" It was indeed a fierce mania of Mary's to stare into her own eyes at the looking-glass. She did it as a rule more angrily than with any other feeling; and, when she did it, she always thought of the self that looked back at her there as something quite different from the self she was conscious of really being. Her real self didn't seem to have eyes or nose, or mouth! Her real self seemed compounded out of pure ether and totally independent of bodily form. John Cowper Powys, "A Glastonbury Romance" Let go care and become wholly clear of heart, like the face of a mirror without image and picture. When it has become clear of images, all images are contained in it; that clear-faced one is not ashamed of any man's face. Rumi His form has passed away, he has become a mirror: naught is there but the image of another's face. Rumi But we all, with unveiled face, reflecting as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed. St. Paul The whole body will become like a mirror: it will become all eye and spiritual substance. Rumi The Buddha Mind, unborn and marvellously illuminating, is like a bright mirror. A mirror reflects whatever is in front of it. It's not deliberately trying to reflect things.Likewise, when the object being reflected is removed, the mirror isn't trying not to reflect it, but when it's taken away it doesn't appear in the mirror. The Unborn Buddha Mind is just like this. Bankei back to top |
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