Yes! Yes! Yes! These "visual images" are perception, not experience. They are part of the rational model that our mind creates. They are illusory, at least I call these mind-created perceptions illusory. They're not real anyway...
...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Edgar, and group, > > Edgar is SO right, in this bit. There is just reflected light and scattered > light. Imaging, and interpretation of images, is one of our inherited gifts. > Of course, blind people do not participate in visual imaging, yet they > possess a "spacial" sense assembled by the other senses. And blind people > feel warmth of sunlight, and can orient toward the Sun. > > --Joe > > > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@> wrote: > > > As a very simple example reality doesn't consist of focused visual images > > we think it does. Focusing light occurs only in the eyes because the eye > > has lens that focus the light. Thus there simply ARE NO VISUAL IMAGES of > > anything in the real world out there, they exist only in the mind's > > illusory model of reality.... > [snip] > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
