What is inside us is not attractive, but healing. What is outside of us is highly attractive, but destructive. We are attracted to big bright lights so much that we’d walk towards it even if melted us like Icarus’ wings. If some dilettante self-proclaimed guru said there was a special moon today and this is what happens this day and go out there and hit your head to the concrete walls in a horizonless desert etc…. we’d run towards it like a moth to halogen lights.
But if someone said sit down for a second, breathe a few minutes, become quiet to notice the subtle articulations of the breath, and perhaps see that the whole world with its star constellations, heavenly forests, lions ripping apart a deer, murderers and saints is inside of us… there is something special happening inside of us at all times, not just every blue moon, bit at all times… and contemplate that… we’d ignore it bluntly, because there is the fear of looking inside of ourselves. (Shsh, the boogie man of ‘less attachment to our sense of self’ lurks in there).
We want to be distracted by big bright lights, don’t we (television and smart phone just to name 2) and of course the anti lights such us politicians, media, oversized billboards and Netflix shows drowning in seasons and episodes; motivational speakers, gurus - anything and everything just to postpone looking into the dark abyss of our own minds.
There is no big bright light out there, there is only the dark abyss in here, and once we free-fall into it, with contemplation and some inner work, the fundamental darkness perhaps can become the all revealing, beautifully subtle, warming, comforting, and healing light. But don’t get attached to that idea. It’s still just an idea and may not necessarily be true.
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