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The metaphor of the black box represents a dark, confined space or place. Our brain is similarly dark and confined, like a black box, even though it allows us to perceive an immensely vast space. Our perceptual activities occur within this cerebral black box; the dharma of perception resides within this black box; both the knower and the known exist within the black box. Therefore, we sentient beings live entirely within this black box. Given this, how unreal and unreliable our perceptions must be! How illusory and unreal the perceived dharma must be! The very brain we depend upon is itself subject to birth, cessation, and change. So what, then, is the world of the Five Aggregates? Or is it nothing at all? This question is sufficient to completely overturn all our accumulated understanding of life across countless lifetimes and eons. Thus, we invite you to deeply contemplate these words, to elevate your understanding of life, and to attain genuine liberating wisdom!
