Worshiping The Dark (A Rant against The Light)...

reply to post by Itisnowagain


This is all your own perspective. Which makes you right in your own world, because your mind, where you sit right now, is your own world...our worlds, specific to every individual mind, are different.

So what is right for you, is not necessarily right for the rest of us. Each of us is special, and must find our own path. Sometimes we join other paths...but then we find our own again. And our own paths are just as important.

reply to post by AfterInfinity


The mind is an appearance, it is the light appearing as thought. The light appears presently, now, this instant. Thought is what mind really is.
There is only ever you and the light that is appearing. This light here and now is all that there is. It might appear as a thought, an idea about another time but you will never know anything but the light that is appearing in presence.

reply to post by Itisnowagain


You know, if you didn't sound like the Riddler all the time, I might actually understand you more often. There's merit in simplicity, but simplicity with too little context (aka background) is just too confusing.

In other words, elaborate on that post. Explain it in more detail, without the riddles. Please.

reply to post by AfterInfinity

I will try to explain it more clearly, if you have any questions please ask.
If we examine what is actually going on right now in this instant (the only instant that exists, the only thing there is to examine in reality) - when talking about life we tend to look at the past or at books to tell us about what life is but it is right here and right now and it is 'real' so the best place to exmaine what 'life' is is where it is happening - it is happening presently, now, here.

There is an appearance, there is light that is seen - can you see? Can you hear, smell, taste, touch? The appearance that is here now, presently is seen and known. So there is the 'seen' aspect (the colour, sound, the experience, a thought arising) and then there is the 'seer' aspect (the knower of this experience - the experiencer).

The seen (scene) is everything - it is the content of life, it is 'all' that appears. This includes thought and sensation as well as all that is seen or heard or smelt, touched etc.
The seer (knower) is not a thing - it is the space that all things (content of life/existence) appears in/on.

The seer/knower is like the empty tv screen before the picture appears.
The seen/scene is the picture that appears on the screen.
When the picture appears on the screen of the tv the empty screen is forgotton but the picture is dependant on the screen for it to make an appearance.

You are the empty screen of awareness that is constant, without you no thing (no picture/image) could appear.
The screen of awareness does not come and go like the pictures do. The empty screen of awareness is always present. You are that.