Friends:

Representation, Image, Display or Manifestation, but not Substance!

What one 'see' is only an 'Image', not a thing !!! not a 'substance out there', but a construction,
a mental experience, an immaterial sensation, created by sense-organ, mind & form ‘ in here’...
Just like the image on the PC-screen is indeed electronically created & not 'really' in there.
There is an image of an Apple on the screen, but no real apple inside the PC…
Likewise:
There is an image of an Apple on the mental visual screen, but from that image one cannot
conclude, that a real apple exists outside, apart from or fully independent of this mind… !!! 

Like in the mirror, there is no 'Person'; Like in the cinema, there is no 'Actors';
There is only 'Images' of persons and things. They appear as real, but are Not really Real... 

Images of what then, one may ask?
We will never know as we only have the mental images & never the 'original '!
Even to claim that this 'original' exists, is then merely metaphysical speculation based
on a somewhat naive, simple-minded - if not even childish – materialist world view…  

Seeing Images instead of Realities is halfway to seeing Nothingness…
Seeing Nothingness is halfway to disabling the urge of Craving…
Disabling Craving is halfway to te deathless dimension Nibbāna!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
In the seen is merely the process of seeing & what is seen.
In the heard is merely the process of hearing & what is heard.
In the sensed is merely the process of sensing & what is sensed.
In the thought is merely the process of thinking & what is thought of.
So knowing, you will not be connected with that…
So disconnected, you will not be absorbed in that...
So neither ‘with that’ nor ‘in that’ you are! not by that sensation.
When there is no ‘you’ inferred or conjectured by that sensation,
then ‘you’ are neither ‘here’, ‘there’, ‘both’, ‘beyond’ nor ‘in between’…
Only this - is the End of Suffering!!!                              
Source: Udana – Inspiration: I – 10

Only an Image!