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The Buddha's Experience of the Rainbow
The sense of self, even though we misunderstand it a lot, is basically a designation for each of our individual patterns of mind and body. So the Buddha expressed the importance of seeing this so clearly when he said, nothing whatsoever is to be adhered to as I or mine. And if they are constructed differently, what we take to be the real world would look very different. Our perception is completely conditioned by the apparatus for which we are perceiving things. This is what the Buddha called the magic show of consciousness.