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Worries And Difficulties Are Like Images In A Dream

Some people realize that certain things happen as apparitions in the brain,
but tend to forget that this is true for all phenomena. However, in every second
of one's life, one experiences copy images in the brain. For example, a

businessman who goes bankrupt receives images of his workplace and his
employees in his brain. The things he sold and the money he received for them
are all impressions in his brain. When this man loses all his money, he loses the
image of that money. A person who loses his workplace and all possessions
loses the image in his brain of the workplace and the property. Or a person
who has his car stolen again has lost the appearance of a car in his mind. He
can no longer see this car-like apparition which he thought he owned, but of
course he was never actually connected to the original of that apparition even
for one moment throughout his whole life.

Not only things like this, but every difficulty a person experiences in the
course of his life is in the brain. For example, consider a person who lives in a
country where there is internal strife. He lives every moment in mortal danger
and comes every moment face to face with assaults from hostile soldiers, but
he is actually face to face with an appearance of hostile soldiers in his brain. A

No matter what difficulty a person is confronted with,
everything occurs in the brain. In the same way a person thinks
of and imagines her past, for example, her poverty during
childhood; the present moment also happens in the brain.

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