Help me understand the one mind.

So I have two interpretations of reality according to Zen:

• It is all one mind, my mind. The whole world, people etc appear in my mind as creations, like in a dream.

• It is all one mind, and that mind appears as sentient beings everywhere. When I speak to someone, it is not just my mind, they also are a piece of the one mind appearing somewhere I can’t reach. Kind of like a hydra with many heads.

I would prefer 2) but I have had experiences where I can really feel it’s only me, like an intuition. It’s a bit insulting to tell people they don’t exist, so really sorry about that.

Submitted December 05, 2018 at 11:31PM by koalazen https://ift.tt/2EdNWYt