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centimetres inside your brain. Within this centre of perception, no concept
such as right, left, front or behind exists. That is, sound does not come to you
from the right, from the left or from the air; there is no direction from
which the sound comes.
The same is true of odour. Just as a rose will appear as an image in the
centre of vision, so will its fragrance be sensed in the centre of smell.
Whether the source of the odour is near or far, and whether the odour is
sour, sweet, acrid, pleasant, etc. are likewise matters for the brain to inter-
pret.
The "external world" presented to us by our perceptions is merely a
collection of the electrical signals reaching our brain. Throughout our lives,
these signals are processed by our brain and we proceed without recognis-
ing that we are mistaken in assuming that these are the "original" versions of
matter existing in the external world. We are misled because we can never
directly reach matter itself by means of our senses.
Moreover, it is again our brain that interprets and attributes meaning
to the signals about the "external world" and we assume to be dealing with
its original. For example, let us consider the sense of hearing. It is in fact our
brain that transforms the
sound waves in the
"external world" into a
symphony. That is to say,
we know music as inter-
preted by our brain, not
the original music that
exists outside. In the
same manner, when we
see colours, what reaches
our eyes are merely elec-
trical signals of different
wavelengths. It is again
our brain that transforms
these signals into colours.
The colours in the We see everything around us as
"external world" are coloured inside the darkness of our
brains, just as this garden looks
unknown to us. We can coloured from the window of a dark-
never have direct experi- ened room.