ancient wisdom

It is said that your environment is a reflection of the inner you. This points to the base of existence of all phenomena, in that everything is dependently arising. From this, the notion of everything being interconnected or interdependent arose, stating that all phenomena relate to each other in one way or another. What is—➤

In the ancient Buddhist tradition, the mirror is used as a metaphor for the mind. The mirror is a symbol for clarity, wholesome or complete perception, and ‘primordial purity’ of the mind. The mirror may be understood as a quality of the mind that denotes perceiving experience as it is without obscuration formed by mental—➤