📕 subnode [[@flancian/lights]]
in 📚 node [[lights]]
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An [[essay]].
- I [[love]] lights.
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I like making them my meditation object, after reaching access concentration through focus on the breath or some other means.
- One can always ask oneself: where are the lights around us that can be seen? And look for them in your visual field, either with your eyes open or closed.
- Presumably this object has in common with the breath that it can always be perceived if you are conscious. This seems to be my experience, although I wonder how beings who were born blind according to a common definition define light.
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My experience after practicing this kind of meditation exercise is that:
- Light persists on closing your eyes and looking away.
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There are usually more lights than I usually think around me at any given time.
- In the modern world this is because there are many electrical sources around at night in urban environments.
- But in every case phenomenons like [[reflection]] make it so that single light sources can be seen through many paths, which I perceive as many lights.
- This sometimes leads me to think about the nature of [[experience]] and [[entanglement]].
- After some time I return to the [[breath]].
📖 stoas
- public document at doc.anagora.org/lights
- video call at meet.jit.si/lights