Reflection

What is a reflection? Is it not the opposite of the one who looks? Is it not the same person, yet a different one? I can see myself in the mirror, but the mirror shows only the me that looks on it. There is this person on the other side, who moves the hand, blinks the eyes, smiles and frowns exactly as I do. This person seems to be far and separate from me. Yet it is me, nonetheless. I might find this person different from me, because he is only a reflection. But reflection do not exist as a separate truth. My reflection and I are one.

This is literal in a sense. It is a simple logic to think that my reflection is me. But what if that the whole humanity is my reflection? What if that each person I encounter is my exact reflection? Would that be an easy task to be conscious of? Or would that be a difficult confusion to solve?

We have believed, as far as our everyday lives are concerned, that we are no more the same from other people. They are there. We are here. This is the definition of territories and boundaries, ownerships and righteousness, contrast and separations. We cannot be the other person, for the other is different, and often opposing to our ways of being. Oftentimes, this sense of separateness compels us to destroy each other, both coming from a belief that we are the only deserve the happiness that all of us--including our enemies--desire.

Why it is so difficult to see Oneness? Because it is a vague concept for someone who have witnessed great rifts and strife. Because we still live in the illusion that our physical bodies are separated islands in the ocean of uncertainty. We will be used to this until we can get use to the vagueness of the essence of becoming One.

Reflection is an action and a powerful tool. Reflection goes beyond the notion of being alone and reading over a good passage, or trying to mull over a certain decision. Reflection, in contrast, is an essential experience: an experience of seeing. This is a radical seeing, for it needs more than the physical eye can do. Each of us sees with the eyes of our soul that can penetrate the depths of our hearts, threading ours to those we are allowed and about to see, people who have been trying to seeing ourselves. BY reflecting, we are experiencing through the experience of those we see. We reflect ourselves by becoming the person we see, and allowing us to feel and fulfill the experience of the soul.

If we reflect ourselves to those who suffer, we can see them with eyes of compassion. In essence, we have opened our hearts toward their suffering, and ease their burden with the purity of our reflection. If we reflect ourselves to those who rejoice, we can see them with the eyes of shared joys. We are happy because the other is happy. Happiness is the same reflection.

When we awaken to this reality, Love becomes clearly and sharply visible. Reflecting ourselves with the other frees us from all sense of separation. It saves us from that hellish experience that we are fated to do things and end up without anymore time to transform and deeply savor our true humanity.

A deeper way of seeing, reflection opens our sight to see ourselves from within through the presence of the other. Another word for this experience is called "insight". We see ourselves. And the world we see outside is the world we must see inside us. Each and everyone we meet is a reflection of our consciousness. Whatever circumstance, situation, both we like and dislike that seem to be apart or out of our personal bounds, once they entered our awareness, they all become a manifestation of what is within our minds and hearts. All this opens new ways of seeing reality and penetrating the truth. We take responsibility of knowing the source of truth: everything that we witness and experience is a key to touch the essence of Love within.