Mind is like the sky. It’s vast and unbounded. The entire universe arises in mind with plenty of room to spare. Things arise in mind and fade away again leaving no trace. These “things” are merely thoughts that are formed in response to sense impressions. With these thoughts we make our world.
The Nobel physicist Erwin Schrodinger pointed out that there is only one Mind in the universe. Consciousness is never experienced in the plural. What I think of as my mind and what you think of as your mind are one and the same thing. We both live and breathe and have our being in the same vast sky-like Mind. Our various “personalities” are merely thoughts that arise in consciousness and fade away again.
Like a radio receiver, you could think of the nervous system as a receiver of consciousness. A highly tuned, complex human brain picks up much more of the universal Mind than that of a mouse or a cockroach. In meditation, the static is allowed to subside so that awareness quietly resonates with “the music of the spheres”.
We gave our scientists the job of finding out what the universe is “made” of. They’ve taken the ground from under our feet. As A. S. Eddington said in The Nature of the Physical World” ….”The stuff of the world is mind stuff; by ‘mind’ I do not exactly mean ‘mind’ and by ‘stuff’ I do not at all mean ‘stuff’.” In one department of the university, neuroscientists are busy trying to explain mind in terms of material interactions in the brain, while down the hall, the physicists are turning matter into mind.
A world without ears is silent. A world without eyes is dark. The colour of a rose only comes into being in the mind of a creature with colour vision. As the Buddha said, “With our thoughts we make the world”. The mind is everything.