What do you see?

Would you recognise your back, or the inside of your body, yet you call it you? You are not the body.

Explanation

If you can't recognise or have a reasonable understanding of what you call yourself, can it really be you?

What do you see?

A fish in a tank is surrounded by water which is both inside the fish and which makes up the largest part of its body mass, yet it can’t see the water. Consciousness is similarly around and within us, yet we can't see it. It is the same consciousness for all existence, like the air that we breathe, we come from one unifying source.

Explanation

As water is to a fish, consciousness is within us. It surrounds us and makes up every element of our being.

What do you see?

Love is the wish or the will to be one without separation or difference with another person and ultimately the universe.

Explanation

Love is oneness.

What do you see?

Even though the droplets appear separate they come from and will be united with their source.

Explanation

The droplets to the source is like a dot to the canvas.

What do you see?

Could you identify yourself from the soles of your feet or limbs amongst many? Yet you believe it is part of your identity.

Explanation

All of your body, you call you, but most of it you have either never seen or wouldn't recognise amongst that of others. Are you really the body?

What do you see?

Consciousness is time running with no beginning or end.

What do you see?

The past is gone and will never return and the future is not yet here. There is only life in the now.

Explanation

Now is the only reality.

What do you see?

For a baby of six months, one month seems forever as it is one 6th of his life yet for an adult the month passes quickly as, relative to his time on this planet, it is only a small fraction. Although we believe that we share the same timeframe, time itself is different for each and every one of us. Only the canvas on which events are played out on is constant.

Explanation

If for one month an adult takes a six month old baby on holiday, this is one sixth of the baby’s life on the planet and therefore seems to last forever. For the adult, it is only one month of many years and so passes relatively quickly. That is why time passes faster and faster as people get older compared to the time they have been on this planet.

What do you see?

The constant, the unchangeable.

Explanation

Can you find anything that doesn't change in your life? Can you find the one thing that has remained constant ever since you can remember? Being present in the now is the only constant.

What do you see?

Is the mind in the body or the body in the mind? The mind gives existence to the body but consciousness gives existence to the mind.

Explanation

If you are knocked unconscious, does your body exist for you?

What do you see?

You may feel that you are separate from what you see but you are inextricably bound to everything.

Explanation

You are everything and everything is you.

What do you see?

The memory of direct experience of pleasure or that of others.

What do you see?

The unifying canvas - the possibility of all things - requires individual consciousness for the creation of relative objects. The subatomic particles, which make up all the objects that we see, necessitates their capture in consciousness to create form and mass, without which they are waves without form.

Explanation

The particles that make up everything that we see in the universe, in order to exist, require to be seen. If they are not seen by a conscious being, they only have the potential to exist but have no shape or form. It is the seeing of them that creates them and that seeing is the unifying consciousness.

What do you see?

Even a small puddle of water will produce life in a short period of time. This is because the unifying force, which is the nature that unites us all, is the pregnant possibility of all life.

Explanation

The window provides the light, the sun is the source or the supreme of the objects and the light. The sun shines all the time and within it all life arises.

What do you see?

Memory of direct experience of pain or that of others.

Explanation

Unless a child has put his hand in the fire and been burnt or has seen another burnt, it will reach out to the flame.

What do you see?

Have you ever been anywhere where there is nothing but you? Do we have an independent existence? Do we depend on other objects for our existence?

Explanation

Your existence is always tied to other objects. You can't exist totally alone and are not separate but rely for your being on everything around you. The one who looks is the same as what is seen, the looker and what is seen are both objects, like two sides of the same coin. It is the seeing that allows them to exist. Whatever depends is not real as the real is truly independent. Since the existence of the person depends on other objects, it cannot be real. We can't exist without the sky, the earth and other objects. All objects, including us, have at their essence the one unifying canvas of consciousness, on which the entire universe of objects and their intertwined relationship occur. The seer is the seen, for everything depends on the seeing/consciousness.