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Unbiased towards any Impression
Whenever we look at the outside world, or just any of the things it consists of, we tend to have a very strong impression of its substantiality. What we probably don't realize is that the strong impression is merely our own mind's interpretation of what it sees. We think that the strong, solid reality really exists outside, and when we look within ourselves, perhaps we feel empty. This is a common misconception among people. The wrong mental attitude that fails to realize that the strong impression that appears to truly exist outside of us is actually projected by our own mind. Everything we experience – feelings, sensations, even shapes and colors – comes from our minds.
To illustrate the point clearly, imagine one morning you woke up with a foggy mind and vague visual of the day ahead. Isn’t it that the world around you also appears to be dark and foggy, too? On the other hand, when the world seems beautiful and light one day, you should understand that basically, those impressions are coming from your own mind, rather than from changes in the external environment. Therefore, instead of misinterpreting whatever you experience in life through judgmental wrong conceptions, you should realize that it's not outer reality but only mind.
For example, when everybody in a classroom looks at a single object, say, the teacher, each of the students has a particularly different notion on him, even though,
simultaneously, they are all looking at the same thing, or person for that matter. These
different experiences don't come from the
teacher. They come from the s