Images arise and disappear within our consciousness. Images of this person, of that person. Images of dream. Images of future hopes and past regrets. Images of personal triumphs and of failures. And so on. Images arise and disappear.
One form of consciousness is image attachment consciousness. Rather than let the images that arise disappear, we cling to them, to certain ones in particular. At those times we are effectively dead to the world around us. We ruminate like cows, belching up what was once chewed and swallowed, standing with unseeing eyes, chewing our cud. Velcro’d to our vomit, we are only partially here, if at all. Image attachment consciousness.
For clear seeing, non-attachment is needed. The images rise and fall, appear and disappear. We are aware of the images but do not get caught up in them. The images arise, give us their juice, their energy, their emotional surge that passes through us like an electric current, They move on. Non-attachment consciousness.
Yet a third form of consciousness exists. No images arise at all. One simply is. Right here. Right now. Now is all there is. No time-space. Fully functioning, wide awake, alert, aware. No bounds. The Silence out of which all arises. Silent consciousness.
Out of this quiet space all emerges.
One form of consciousness is image attachment consciousness. Rather than let the images that arise disappear, we cling to them, to certain ones in particular. At those times we are effectively dead to the world around us. We ruminate like cows, belching up what was once chewed and swallowed, standing with unseeing eyes, chewing our cud. Velcro’d to our vomit, we are only partially here, if at all. Image attachment consciousness.
For clear seeing, non-attachment is needed. The images rise and fall, appear and disappear. We are aware of the images but do not get caught up in them. The images arise, give us their juice, their energy, their emotional surge that passes through us like an electric current, They move on. Non-attachment consciousness.
Yet a third form of consciousness exists. No images arise at all. One simply is. Right here. Right now. Now is all there is. No time-space. Fully functioning, wide awake, alert, aware. No bounds. The Silence out of which all arises. Silent consciousness.
Out of this quiet space all emerges.
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