At the cinema, you look at the screen – you never look back to where the projector is located. In fact, there is no film on the screen – it is only a projection of shadow and light. The film exists precisely in the back, but you do not pay attention to it. That is where the projector is located. Behind everything that you see is your mind. Your mind is a projector. However, you always look at the other person, because the other person is the screen.
When you are in love, your loved one seems beautiful, the best. When you hate someone, the same person can seem the ugliest. However, you never come to realize that the same person can be the most terrible and the most beautiful... Therefore, the only way to achieve the truth is to learn to see clearly and not to resort to the help of the mind. The activity of the mind is a problem because the mind can only create illusory dreams... Although, because of your anxiety, dreams eventually begin to look like reality.
When you are anxious or excited, you are in a state of mind like an intoxicated person – and that is why you lose your common sense. Then everything you see is only your projection. There are as many worlds as there are minds, because each mind lives in its own world.
The man and the woman on this card are looking at each other, but they cannot see each other clearly. Each projects an image onto the other, which was built by the mind and covers the real face of the person he is looking at. Each of us can be overtaken by our own projections regarding situations and people around us. This happens when we do not fully recognize our expectations, desires, and judgments. Instead of taking responsibility for the fact that we have these expectations, we try to transfer them onto others.
Projections can be diabolical or divine, worrying or enjoyable, but they are, nevertheless, projections – the clouds that prevent us from seeing reality as it is. The only way out of this is to recognize this game.
When you notice that you have a judgment about another person, apply it to yourself - do you see in yourself what you see in others? Is your vision clear or is it blurred by what you want to see?