Ibn' Arabi

The concept of The Polishing of the Mirror is that when a mirror is dirty, a person can only see the dirty mirror with smudges and a distorted reflection. However, when the mirror is clean, a person only sees the reflection in the mirror and does not see the mirror itself; it becomes invisible. We need to be able to understand that the reflection and mirror are the same thing. Also, the complete human being is the polishing of the mirror. This idea was interesting to me as well as the concept that complete knowledge requires undermining fixed understandings. I perceived this as sometimes it is necessary to doubt accepted teachings and that confusion is sometimes good because then you can understand it more thoroughly or find more knowledge on your own and therefore have a complete understanding.