The Meat of the Message

Normally, when a speaker talks about an intangible subject, an analogy is used to give the audience a picture that helps communicate the message the speaker is attempting to convey. What has been observed when giving analogies of what non duality is like to an audience, is that they get stuck on the picture, and forget to take in the meat of the message. Being that before a perceptual shift, the tendency to identify and attach to thoughts is high, the audience can very easily get stuck on dissecting the picture, instead of allowing the analogy to dismantle their old view of things to see what is.

To sit with an analogy, watch the thoughts and emotions that arise within, and do nothing, letting it ALL sink in, is a much more proper use of the analogy. The purpose of the analogy, is to get you to see with a sight that comes beyond mind, so don't use them within it.

Take this analogy as an exercise. A camera is built to take pictures, which are copies of a moment lived at one point in time. It is a snapshot, of one of the million moments of your life. The better the camera, the higher the quality of the snap shot, right? To get a snap shot of life, all the time, you would want a camera that takes great pictures at night, in low light, of rapid movement, small objects, and so on. Well, in the sense of a camera, it makes easy sense, but now let's look at the mind like a camera. Every time you resist to see something for what it is, it is like lowering the quality of your camera. It's taking off the color and choosing to see only in black and white, not being able to take rapid movement shots, and/or limiting the spectrum of color in which you can take a shot.

(Pointer: Here is a point where minds are going to want to go wild. 'Well, what if I like mind in black and white?' 'Maybe I don't want to 'see' everything that can be seen?' My response to that is...How about the option of black and white, versus making it the strict rule....and if that's the way you want it, continue on your way, I was just making you aware of all the capabilities your camera has...)

Key point here is, you are capable of expanding your horizons, your perception of things and how they work. Your mind's capabilities haven't been fully tapped into, and if you are feeling constricted, it's time you break out of that small shell, you are getting too big for it.

How exactly do you do that? By breaking away from what you know, and stepping into that which you don't.