Open eye meditations
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Why do we put images in our mind? We are surrounded by imagery all the time, why should we choose some over others? For what purpose? Is there a point in finding what we love, what we resonate with?
These are open eyes meditations. Qualities captured by the yantras are always in relationships, never cut off or isolated, always with a full context that is freed from the judgements that keep them from participating in the playful pulse of an open mind. Put yourself in front of it. Open your eyes. Open your inner eye. Let your eyes be bi-directional, as if the wall where your images are projected has fallen, and there is nothing to separate you from the whole world. Go through the mirror. Think of it as the other, i.e. what belongs to shared realities. Suggest the other and see what that brings up for you. Be yourself and suggest the other, and let the other come freely, out of your dark corners, out of hiding.
And then, the afterimages, like the residue of your retina, the stain of complementary colours when the visual impact has disappeared for your eyes. We can play with the forms and colours, the percepts of our imbilical mind, a bit like we play with the physical forms in practices like Qigong or energy Yoga. We play and experiment, move to find patterns of freedom and efficiency, stumbling blocks that indicate need for development and refinement of action. We do this to loosen and strenghten the potentials and actualisations of our mind, and just to enjoy when we find that spontaneous flow of energy, the true patterns of our soul as it breathes. This is a way of learning to express ourselves through our core, to find and learn to follow our own thread of life.
Wheels
 
What are the images of the buddha? They are nothing. As everything participate in nothing like this, let's celebrate; let's get on with life. Feel the shiver in your eyes like the leaves in the trees on a warm summer day, moved by a breeze. When the breeze makes ripples in your bones, like steps of light in the shadows of your soul, then you are the buddha. You are the light in your bones.
Add story to imagery. Amazing! Remove it. A vast horizon. Can you observe all this?
Buddha in the box. How to escape. Open.