In some ways, you can say even just looking at flowers is an expression of your mind. In your view, you see so many different plants, leaves, and flowers of incredible designs and shapes, each having its own beauty. Anything that is beautiful, that you enjoy, that you find nice, comes from your good karma; it is a production of good karma, an expression of your mind, your positive thoughts. It is like the reflection of your face in a mirror. If your face has many pimples or cuts, or your nose is missing, that's what you see in the mirror. A clean, beautiful face reflects a clean, beautiful image. Another example is taking a picture: you put the imprint of people or a country on the negative roll of film using the camera, then after the roll is developed, the image appears from the paper as photos, a movie, a TV image, or a slide show.

In our lives, everything that appears to us – an enemy or a friend – is like that. Ugly, beautiful, indifferent, everything that appears is exactly like that – coming from our mind, a creation of our mind. We should understand, like looking at the flowers, that how a person thinks about you, talks to you, or behaves towards you, pleasantly or unpleasantly, liking you or not liking you, having pleasant or unpleasant feelings towards you – all comes from your mind and is a production or reflection of your negative or positive thoughts. They are productions or creations of karma.