Meditation 09
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The ‘lens’ through which you view the world conditions your perspective.
Still the body and quiet the mind,
Going within, become aware of the rhythm of your breathing and the beating of your heart. Listen to the pulse of your life blood flowing rhythmically through your brain.
Focus deep within the centre of your mind.
Visualise a huge well lit room with lots of windows looking out at many varying views.
Each of these windows has a different type of glass and so each view appears to be entirely different from all the rest.
Only one of these windows has no glass and therefore displays the unconditioned view.
The different types of glass in all the other windows has been ‘tinted’ by your experiences and the sub-conscious programming placed upon you by the environment in which you find yourself.
From here it seems that there is no way to know which of the windows holds the unconditioned view.
A careful look through the contents of your mind will however help reveal which windows have ‘tinted’ glass and the nature of the filter which it has had imposed upon it.
A path to discovery here is to note your emotional responses in relation to various thoughts.
The feeling that arise can indicate the nature of the conditioning factor upon the lens in question.
Different responses have different effects, for instance expressions of grief can fog the lense, expressions of anger can distort the lense, and expressions of unconditional Love can restore the lense to clarity.
As each view is investigated in turn, one can eliminate the false views and begin to ascertain what it is that you are not looking at.
In this manner your view will steadily clarify, and you will gain access more and more often to the clear, unconditioned view of that which it is you are actually looking at.
