Please read each step by itself without skipping ahead:
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A. Imagine a polka-dotted elephant in your mind.
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B. The moment it comes, 'pops' into your mind, notice what it's doing. Where is it's trunk? What direction is it looking? Is it big or small? What colors are it's polka-dots?
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C. Once you you mentally noticed all that data, think of something else. Anything. Maybe do a math problem.
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D. Where was the elephant before he 'popped' into your mind? Where was he when you saw him? Where did he go when he 'popped' out? The elephant might have come from and went to the same 'place' of 'non-existence' but while he was in your mind, he was not, at least, in the exact 'same kind' of 'non-existence.'
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E. Now, explore within yourself, how would you like to describe the differences of when the elephant was in your mind and when he wasn't? They were qualitatively different, right? Very much so, right? When you weren't thinking of anything visual and suddenly BAM visual, then it left.
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Birth, Life, and Death.
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F. Sit with that for a bit.
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G. Now here is the extra kicker: Which part of your mind decided which way he was facing? What angle his trunk was at? Sure, you might've gone those from some arbitrary memory....but you never saw a polka-dotted elephant (or I'd be really surprised!) ....where did you get the colors for the dots? You didn't consciously choose those colors before hand...so where did they come from?
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When you imagine the elephant...only you can see it.
If I tried to see it, I would only see neurons firing in your brain, right?
I would not see the elephant, only chemicals or electrons. But you see the elephant.
Only you.
Who is the one who witnesses the elephant?
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Bankei:
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"Everyone who conclusively realizes that what is unborn and marvelously illuminating is truly the Buddha Mind, abiding in the Unborn Buddha Mind, is a living tathagata from today forever after. Even 'buddha' is just a name given to traces that have arisen, so, from the standpoint of the Unborn, it's only a secondary matter, a peripheral concern."
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Submitted December 22, 2018 at 01:25AM by Pikkko http://bit.ly/2SeN4q1
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