Seeing in a whole new way
Much of what Buddhism presents to me is a new way of seeing things that I either refused to look at before, things that I never stopped to notice or things that particularly attract me and captivate my attention.
Seeing in the moment without the ray bans of delusion take some practice. Cleaning the spots and specks of the kleshas from one’s lenses takes time but it is certainly worth it.
It’s important to ‘look at’ what exactly we are ‘looking at’. What is our view? Are we pessimistic? Clingy? Angry? Are we really looking into the eyes of our lover or off day dreaming of that yoga mat we saw on the way home from work? Are we wiping away tears or burying our eyes in our hands and shielding ourselves from what we don’t want to see. Are we taking in the crystal blue sky or cursing the the grey clouds that hand over our heads?
The Buddha, Dharma and Sangha do a great deal to clean the sleep out from our eyes and wipe the obscurations from our cloudy lenses.
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Beautiful post, thank you.
With palms together,
Uku
It’s like having windshield wipers that never stop working! (Except, of course, on my rental car – where they never work very well…)
Thank you!