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The analogy of the black box refers to a dark and confined space or place; our brain is precisely dark and confined, like a black box, even though the space our brain allows us to perceive appears vast. Our perceiving activity takes place within the black box of the brain, the dharmas we perceive are also within the black box of the brain, and both the perceiver and the perceived are within the black box; therefore we sentient beings are, in fact, living inside a black box. Since this is so, how unreal and unreliable our perception must be, how false and unreal the dharmas we perceive must be, and even the brain upon which we depend is subject to arising, ceasing, and change—then what, after all, is the world of the five aggregates? Or is it nothing at all? This question is enough to overturn all the understanding of life that we have accumulated through lifetime after lifetime and through countless kalpas; therefore I sincerely invite everyone to contemplate deeply along with the text, so as to elevate your understanding of life and obtain the true wisdom of liberation!
