diff --git a/Lights.md b/Lights.md index f0d89d35c..798900474 100644 --- a/Lights.md +++ b/Lights.md @@ -4,4 +4,8 @@ - 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. - - My experience after practicing this is that there are usually more lights than I usually think around me at any given time. + - My experience after practicing this kind of meditation exercise is that: + - Light persists on closing your eyes and looking away. + - 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.