Reflections

Everything we have ever seen or will see is made visible by light. We see an amazing variety of shapes, colours, textures and objects, yet all these forms are really just the reflection of light. Seen this way, all visible forms are as illusory as holograms. What we see are fluctuations in the universal field of electromagnetism, rather than separate things.

But this is not the entire truth. The light we see when our eyes are open, is the same light we see in darkness as visions and dreams. So light can even appear to us in the absence of an external source. Visible light enables the sensory perception of sight, but the conscious experience of sight depends on the light of consciousness.

This applies not just to sight, but to every experience. There is a unity to consciousness as our senses merge to form aspects of a single conscious experience. Whatever is known through the mind, is a reflection of the light of consciousness. From this perspective, consciousness can be seen as fundamental to any mind; a field as universal as any other. The fluctuations of this field define not just human minds, but the entire realm of conscious experience.

Everything we have ever experienced was made of the light of consciousness. But we misunderstand ourselves and identify with the reflection of our faces, thoughts, feelings and memories, rather than the light itself. But while everything we’ve known has changed and faded, the source of this light has been stable and ever present; through every waking moment, in our dreams, and even in deep sleep. For what wakes us up in the morning is the return of experience to a capacity that is always there, ready to be filled.

In the darkness of the night sky, the sun’s light remains unseen until it makes contact with the surface of the moon. Similarly, the light of consciousness is usually known upon contact. In that moment of contact, it seems to split into two; the object and its shadow; the known and the knower. Yet both are illusory and what is based in reality is the fact that there is knowing.

We turn to the self-luminous sun to find the source of light. In the mind, we have to turn to the source of consciousness to find our link to reality. We have to be more interested in the background than the foreground; in the silence from which sounds appear, in that creative space where thoughts arise, in the luminosity that pervades the mind. Whoever looks here, finds the source of their own being and, through our natural affinity for truth, the inexhaustible source of peace, love and wisdom.

 

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