The doors of perception
Leibnitz said the mind is like an empty room, if you walked in and looked around you’d see nothing. Perhaps this is its ‘naked’ state, until something occurs in it; the mind is not any of the things we may attribute to thought, but is the vessel to wit thought occurs.
When something occurs in mind, it could be seen as like we have opened the door and walked into another room. This room is not empty, it contains a situation or an event you are thinking about, or it could contain some aspect of mind like the ego which until its conception had not existed. It may contain entire personas or characters we use in our lives, like the you at work or with your lover.
We can keep walking into different rooms finding things out about ourselves, first we discover who we are, yet along the way we find rooms we had not considered to be who and what we are. We have broken the mould, the house that man built, in finding ourselves we have discovered someone else also.
We keep opening doors to new rooms finding new things, we find connecting rooms to another’s mind and find them out to be not who we thought they were, and we are changed. their house it seems also contains more rooms than are visible from the outside.
Can we keep opening doors without end?
Do any of our limits ultimately apply, or is the dynamic of the system constantly changing?
Surely there is no end to how many rooms the mind contains?
The trick is to keep opening doors.
Otherwise you are building fortresses of the self ~ an illusion.
Eventually you will know the world, and then it can no longer keep you. In ignorance we are slaves, in wisdom masters.
_