garden/Lights.md

• An essay.
  • I love lights.
    • #pull light
  • 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 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.
      • This sometimes leads me to think about the nature of experience and entanglement.
    • After some time I return to the breath.