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Wrong perceptions cause incorrect thinking and unnecessary suffering.
Understanding is the very foundation of love. When you understand someone, you cannot help but love him or her.
When we are attentive to a bird singing, that sound is the object of our mind. When our eyes see the blue sky, this is the object of our mind. When we look at a candle, an idea or image of the candle arises in our mind. That object of perception is a sign (lakshana). In Chinese, the character for perception is composed of the ideograms for sign and mind. A perception is a sign, an image in our mind.
