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If meditation is focusing on one point for a long time, trying to keep sleep away, then every point we can think of or observe becomes meditation. If meditation is plunging between two ideas that pass into our heads then any tow ideas are worthwhile thinking. If meditation is to achieve awareness of an object or an idea, in unity or in unison, then every one object or an idea merits our attention.
To start with, and one of the foremost things that we can observe, in fact obliged to observe, is ourselves. We have an acutely driving impulse of curiosity to look into our in everything that makes our universe. us being included. We realize at one point of our meditation that we are made of something that we identify as matter or substance. Looking further into this matter, or substance, science tells us it is made of atoms, the smallest particle of matter.
At this stage, we face the unknown. Atoms: What are these? How come they are there facing us? Where did they come from? Why should they be what they are? How are they constructed? Who put them there? In addition, what for?
If everything is made of atoms then how come they take different shapes? Different forms, different structures? Different characteristics? Different behavior?
Atoms consisting the human body are different from those constituting the apple tree. Atoms constituting gold are different from those constituting water. If there some 90 basic elements and there about thirty fundamental elements for life manifestations then we are face with an endless object compositions and structures.
What is most interesting that science offers some ideas into the structure and manifestations of life dimensions.
Our question concerning our image in the mirror then becomes more clear in terms of complete mystery to the point of absolute enigma.
Our mirror reflects an image that represents our body: a trunk, a head, tow arms and two legs.
Such a body, how come it is what it is? Its shape, its form, its color, its features?
If atoms are responsible for the making of such shape, form and features then they must know exactly what they are doing to produce a life machine like finished product that walks, talks, eats, drinks, thinks, feels and moves, that changes, develops, ages and dies.
The strangeness of such a figure in front of us reveals a presence of something. Something that we identify as a human being. Who is a human being? No one knows. Nobody is able to tell you. But we still face this thing in the mirror.
If we completely forget our name by which we identify ourselves and others recognize us we are faced with a complete mystery. This ting in front of you is made up of billions of atoms to have its shape and form, structure and life. But alas this thing is unknown, to you and to others. We have to give it a name or a number in order to be identifiable by others. But even your name does not signify anything, but add to the mystery, for the origin of names, languages, as well as the origin and reason of being of the shape you see in the mirror, remain also a mystery.
The solution to this dilemma is that only the creator of this image in the mirror only knows , for He has created the atoms and then assembled together to be what it is.
Look into the Mirror: Forget your Name: Who are You? You do Not have the Faintest Idea
