12-10-2013, 12:00 AM
~When we trace all problems back to their single source, we
find that the world appears dark and murky and unknowable not because it is,
but because the lens through which it is projected/perceived is filthy.
The lens is self and the filth is ego and self
importance. Clean the lens with
recapitulation and the world resolves into crystal clarity, and darkness and
murkiness are forgotten as if they never were.
(Eliminate the lens altogether and you’ve reached the totality of self,
but then, ‘who’ is left to be the totality of self?)
That’s why any true and complete teaching can be fully
expressed in a few words; wipe the lens, think for yourself, open your eyes,
know thyself, ask Who Am I? All the
world’s systems are dedicated to making the most of the least, but why make the
most of darkness when we can just turn on the lights?
find that the world appears dark and murky and unknowable not because it is,
but because the lens through which it is projected/perceived is filthy.
The lens is self and the filth is ego and self
importance. Clean the lens with
recapitulation and the world resolves into crystal clarity, and darkness and
murkiness are forgotten as if they never were.
(Eliminate the lens altogether and you’ve reached the totality of self,
but then, ‘who’ is left to be the totality of self?)
That’s why any true and complete teaching can be fully
expressed in a few words; wipe the lens, think for yourself, open your eyes,
know thyself, ask Who Am I? All the
world’s systems are dedicated to making the most of the least, but why make the
most of darkness when we can just turn on the lights?

