Seeing past the edges
It struck me recently how easily I forget that I have more control over my life than I realise. Every moment presents a choice and every moment I make one. Every time I/m not aware of this moment, I lose something. I lose that moment rather than live that moment. When I am aware, I inhabit the moment and when I am not I sacrifice that moment and this comes at a cost, as all sacrifice does.
Human sight is concerned only with edges and this is what the visual cortex interprets once the eyes send it the information from our sight. Edges.
Try looking at things and deliberately seeing only edges rather than what we are used to "seeing". Each edge, on its own, is a demarcation between light and darker shades, between one thing and another. Eventually, if you look long enough, you realise that there seem to be an infinite number of demarcations and that these differences, when drawn together, result in an image. It take only one of these demarcations to be altered and the image takes on a different resolution and therefore a different meaning.
All life is meaning and that meaning is in front of our eyes. We really don't have to search for it. We don't have to find meaning in anything because the meaning is already there in the demarcations. It is only left for us to resolve them, to make sense of them in our own way.
These demarcations also exist between people. When we look at each other, we tend to see differences, lines separating shades, hues. We do not see the hues themselves. Our brains have been trained. Our sight has been devised from birth (even conception) to recognise shapes (the human face being the most important). Our relationships become dependent on our skill in recognising differences. We even have the saying that 'opposites attract' but we don't think further than that, imagining that, somehow, these 'opposites' will be drawn together into a beautiful whole in which one 'completes' the other.
This is illusion.
It is a creation of the marriage/religion/relationship industry.
It isn't what we are really about at all. We don't believe that we have control over what we think and therefore what we do and what we will then feel. We think we have a right to happiness when, in fact, we have a right to think. We are continuously being fed this 'happiness myth' because it helps control our choices.
And where do these choices lead us? Are we happier? Are we content?
If we were to examine the demarcations, the edges in our lives we will find ourselves in a realm of surprises. If we were to pay attention to our peripheral vision, our sixth sense (which could be described as our psychological peripheral vision or intuition) we may begin to wake up. These edges are actually part of a continuous melding of colour, shape, texture, sound and connection. Each moment, then, is a demarcation-connection to the next.
Each moment presents me with a path and the more I become involved in that moment, the more I can become one with it and live a real life.
Reality is not so much that which exists but that which does not yet exist in our consciousness.
I ave noticed that as one part of the human race (a very small but apparently powerful part) strives to separate, reject, withdraw, alienate, accuse/blame and control, another part (larger and more powerful that it believes) engages with the moment, listens for the connections and not the demarcations and edges which camouflage them, faces the present in their own lives and is not the fodder for the illusion magicians.
Edges are opportunities because we have to step over them.
Human sight is concerned only with edges and this is what the visual cortex interprets once the eyes send it the information from our sight. Edges.
Try looking at things and deliberately seeing only edges rather than what we are used to "seeing". Each edge, on its own, is a demarcation between light and darker shades, between one thing and another. Eventually, if you look long enough, you realise that there seem to be an infinite number of demarcations and that these differences, when drawn together, result in an image. It take only one of these demarcations to be altered and the image takes on a different resolution and therefore a different meaning.
All life is meaning and that meaning is in front of our eyes. We really don't have to search for it. We don't have to find meaning in anything because the meaning is already there in the demarcations. It is only left for us to resolve them, to make sense of them in our own way.
These demarcations also exist between people. When we look at each other, we tend to see differences, lines separating shades, hues. We do not see the hues themselves. Our brains have been trained. Our sight has been devised from birth (even conception) to recognise shapes (the human face being the most important). Our relationships become dependent on our skill in recognising differences. We even have the saying that 'opposites attract' but we don't think further than that, imagining that, somehow, these 'opposites' will be drawn together into a beautiful whole in which one 'completes' the other.
This is illusion.
It is a creation of the marriage/religion/relationship industry.
It isn't what we are really about at all. We don't believe that we have control over what we think and therefore what we do and what we will then feel. We think we have a right to happiness when, in fact, we have a right to think. We are continuously being fed this 'happiness myth' because it helps control our choices.
And where do these choices lead us? Are we happier? Are we content?
If we were to examine the demarcations, the edges in our lives we will find ourselves in a realm of surprises. If we were to pay attention to our peripheral vision, our sixth sense (which could be described as our psychological peripheral vision or intuition) we may begin to wake up. These edges are actually part of a continuous melding of colour, shape, texture, sound and connection. Each moment, then, is a demarcation-connection to the next.
Each moment presents me with a path and the more I become involved in that moment, the more I can become one with it and live a real life.
Reality is not so much that which exists but that which does not yet exist in our consciousness.
I ave noticed that as one part of the human race (a very small but apparently powerful part) strives to separate, reject, withdraw, alienate, accuse/blame and control, another part (larger and more powerful that it believes) engages with the moment, listens for the connections and not the demarcations and edges which camouflage them, faces the present in their own lives and is not the fodder for the illusion magicians.
Edges are opportunities because we have to step over them.
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