Reply from Derek dated 29 July 2009
Hi ALL, as usual I got a very interesting and pertinent response from my friend Derek.
Everything we perceive depends upon our view. We think things exist outside our mind, but in reality everything we perceive is within our mind…that is why when people look at something or hear something the object appears differently to each person. We may have a common experience of liking say a piece of music or a particular scene, but we still perceive it from a different standpoint. The same object can appear horrible to one and nice to another, which clearly indicates that we are perceiving different objects. The object is an appearance to our mind and does not exist separately from our mind. If there was no mind there would be no object and vice versa. This is why it is so important to watch what view we are generating towards living beings and inanimate objects and change negative views to positive views. Derek
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