Your perception

The way you perceive reality

has everything to do with your happiness or suffering,

Here you must be most aware

for our perception can be distorted.

You can perceive the world

directly without distortion,

Here you see reality

as it is.

This is the way of the truly wise.

You can perceive the world

as a representation,

Here what you perceive

is not reality but an image of your creation.

This is the way that leads to much suffering and the way of a fool.

False perceptions

full of errors and discrimination,

Keeps us from the truth

and we suffer.

The perception directly

without intervention of mind,

This is the way

to the great truth of reality.

Know this

and be free,

Ask always

what is the reality here?