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How did the story go …
This Aboriginal Elder was teaching a youth, taking him to look at a still bend in a river or something.
The full moon was shining on perfectly still water and the Elder said:
“That is how we learn”.
The secret/silent password being
“Reflection”
Which is also, how one “deep listens.”
- which points to nonduality.
Visualization helps in quieting and stilling the mind and opening up ones whole being in receptivity – a kind of enchantment – which is where ….. the inspiration and the desire to open up and empty out more comes in.
The visualization practice also helps in de-centralizing the ego/the "me" centre.
In one of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings, I read something like … visualization gives you a picture, an image (of an awareness shift)
– Once you have seen the picture, you’ll recognize the (dimensional) shift (if and when it comes, when everything starts to bathe in light, luminosity).
Mahavairocana or Dainichi Nyorai is the Cosmic Sun Buddha.
Moon does not have light of its own, but it is the purest, the most immaculate reflection of the (Central) Sun.
Ajikan practice:
https://www.aetw.org/jsp_ajikan.htm
Church/Moonlight image:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/76/e6...1c1f674194.jpg
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