Mystery picture.

easy it's a cow

I see a cow! :)

I can't understand how somebody could see a f**king cow out of this but I see a landscape with a hanging tree.

I'm trying to see a crow, but all I can see is a person lying down >////<
Or, if you tilt your head, a dragon with a dozen arms preparing to fight off and incoming tsunami of darkness.~

a cow

I see absolutely nothing.

Wtf is the cow?
Its a picture of nothing. It just looks like a woman lying down, a landscape, or someone's mouth. But its nothing.

Wreck your brain trying to see something out of the abstract print and you'll only get qualified as "mentally challenged" if this is a Rorschach test, ... ._. ... So I suppose it's not a bad thing if I don't get it, although I feel incompetent not being able to see any of what you mentioned. :P

MR lent me a book to read: Buddhism Plain and Simple.

In this book, there is an interesting picture which i would like to share with you. If you can identify what is this picture, u have probably reached a stage of knowing.

Below is an abstract of the book about the picture:

Truth or reality is not something vague, mysterious, or hidden. You dont have to go to someone else to find it – not to a teacher, or a Buddha, or your parents, or a priest or rabbi or shaman, or any authority whatsoever. Now is it something you can look up in a book. Truth comes to us through seeing. To see is to know.

Seeing needs no further verification. It’s immediate and as one with truth. But we are usually not very skilled at seeing what is actually presented to us.

for a concrete example, look at the picture below. Believe it or not, this is a near photographic rendering of something very familiar, something you have seen (either in person or in pictures) countless times.
If you do not immediately recognize what it is, then notice your state of mind. Notice that it is, to some extent, confused.

Some people, when they first see this picture, say”I think it is a man lying down”. They are not quite sure. They believe it might be a man reclining. But there is no sense of seeing, no conviction that you know what the picture depicts.

Keep looking at the picture. I assure you that when you actually see what it is, all your uncertainty will immediately vanish. You will know what the picture is. All beliefs and uneasiness about it will instantly cease.

If you havent seen what this picture is, keep looking at it for awhile. Eventually you will get it. And when you do get it, notice the sudden shift that takes place in your mind.

Did you notice how you mind relaxed when, suddenly, you saw, and you knew you saw? Your state of mind, which before was vague, mysterious, fuzzy, confused, and uncomfortable, was suddenly transformed the moment you saw. You had clarity and conviction. And that clarity and conviction will remain with you each time you view this picture again.

If somebody says to you,”it is a picture of a man lying down”, you will know they are off the mark – and no amount of argument is going to influence you.

This is analogous to the difference between seeing and simply having a belief, an idea, or concept.

So have you seen it?

its a bird!! its a plane!!! nnnoooOOoooo!! its a cccoowWW!!!

thanks, i’m now able to see it!!!

hahahaha.. see.. i told you its a cow….

cheers!


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