It Is What It Is. Or Is It? Optical Illusion and the Power of Mind
This is a GREAT example of the way our mind alters visual reality, which we so critically key on.
You think you’re an object, you’re addicted to objects, so your focus is on objects.
You are in fact the space which contains all objects, but even when teachers tell us this, we can’t see it until we do. This is one of the two big reasons why talking about enlightenment as a means of transmission simply doesn’t work very well and why The Living Method’s show and tell methodology does. What You really are is prior to language, and that Truth cannot reliably and predictively be unveiled using language alone.
What can be seen in the aftermath of awakening is that the student effectively has to leave the state of present enlightenment to talk about it. It’s a mind-boggling paradox, and the lopsided percentage of seekers versus finders that we see is no surprise. Until now, language has been all that we’ve had. It simply doesn’t have to be this way any longer.
By the way, if You really are the Awake Space, how many ‘spaces’ do you count?
Go here to see what I’m talking about.
September 28, 2015 @ 1:42 pm
Wow, that is fascinating! With effort, I can see the concavity until the nose appears, then it flips to convex.
I’ve been working on absolute acceptance lately, but it has occurred to me, what is it exactly I’m accepting? Arisings filter through my personal patterns, so I’m not seeing direct truth. As best I can, I strip away my interpretation and focus on just the sensory illusion that reality presents. But even that is going to be warped by my “top down” processing. And even the mere concept or perception of an arising is generated by my separate self. So that makes acceptance simple – notice the illusion for what it seems to be, love it (or not), but don’t take it too seriously.
All love,
Kathleen