light

Our eyes act like windows, releasing the light of our perception onto the objects in the outer world. Our eyelids like curtains, our vision the sunlight pouring over everything beyond them.

When we close our eyes, the image of those things remains for a while and the light of our perception continues to focus on them.

But if we keep them closed, eventually the light will start to circulate and illuminate the inner world instead. This is the beginning of self-understanding.

All you have to do is close your eyes, stay alert, and wait.

Soon even the thoughts being illuminated disappear, because they too are shades of the outer.

Until all that's left is the light of the I.