The big event is upon us . . . the Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017.
Highways and motels leading to and within its projected path are jammed . . . campsites in the sweetest viewing spots have been gone for a week, ISO-certified goggles are at the ready, as are special filters for every type of camera lens.
A brief dance of alignment between Sun, Moon and Earth; it is our Woodstock event of the decade.
Apart from the astronomical, beyond the imagination, what will be experienced by those on the ground is quite simple: increasing and then decreasing darkness . . . the coming and going of a huge shadow.
Of which we can be nothing more than observers.
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Consider:
The brilliance of bodhicitta, the radiance of fully awakened mind is always in residence, obscured by the blackout shades of our own stubborn ignorance . . . infinitely vast, it is a luminous splendor existing in the nature of sky – perpetually there but hidden behind the clouds eclipsing the illumination of its clear nature.
This sublime mind – pure light — is there for us . . . always within our potential to reach.
And this good news gets ever better . . . our relationship with it is not as observer, as it is with a short-lived eclipse shadow, but as an active participant.
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Luminous wisdom and enduring compassion . . . to be uncovered, freed and shared with those in your life.
Look not to the heavens but within.
Go behind the shadow of your confusions.
Watch your own darkness lift into light.
Goggles are not needed.