Imagine that I wheeled a really big blackboard in front of you, drew a white dot in the centre of it, and then asked you, "What do you see?"
What would you reply?
Probably ninety-five percent of us will say, "I see a white dot".
But what about the blackboard? Such a big blackboard and yet we focus on a white dot.
Why?
Because this is the pattern of the mind: We are accustomed to looking at the figure not the background.
Because this is the pattern of the mind: We are accustomed to looking at the figure not the background.
It is this fascination with the trees instead of the forest that can blind us to a far greater awareness of reality.......we seem to have a real problem with seeing the bigger picture. We will see clouds and not the sky; see individual life 'forms' instead of feeling the Presence of life itself; recognise thoughts instead of the Consciousness that all thought arises in; and focus on specific news, 'good' or 'bad', without recognising the one perfect process of Self-realisation that is always going on in the background.
But no matter how convincing an argument someone makes that this or anything else is true, it does us little good. Why? Because words alone don't change us.
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