Friends:

Representation, Image, or Manifestation, but not Substance!

What one 'sees' is only an 'Image', not a thing, not a 'substance out there', but a mental
construction, an experience, an immaterial sensation, created by sense-organ, object and
consciousness  ‘in here’ in the mind and brain... Just like the image on the PC-screen is indeed
electronically created and not 'really' in there: There is an image of an Apple on the screen,
but naturally no real apple inside the PC…
Likewise:
There is an image of an Apple on the mental visual screen (occipital brain cortex), but from
that image one cannot conclude, that a real apple exists outside, apart from or completely
independent of the perceiving mind… !!!  Like in the mirror, there is no 'Person' in there and
like in the cinema, there is no 'Actors' on that screen; There is only 'Images' of persons and
things. They appear  as real, but are Not really Real... 

Image  of what then, one may ask?
We will never know as we only have the mental images and never the 'original ' object!
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…
The thing for 'itself' -das ding an sich- as Emanuel Kant called the assumed object
undistorted by the process perception will by definition never be available to us...

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 and what is seen.
In the heard is merely the process of hearing and what is heard.
In the sensed is merely the process of sensing and what is sensed.
In the thought is merely the process of thinking and 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!