When we loosen the grip of conceptual mind on our experience of seeing, all sorts of possibilities for new beginnings arise. The world is full of magical things, patiently awaiting for our senses to grow sharper. Sometimes I think it is helpful for me to delete my preference file for a while, and begin to see non conceptually. The surreal image above reminds me to be open to what I see, not being weighed down by liking or disliking. To be able to move away from what I expect into the realm of being open to what is. Richard Rohr, a contemplative author and priest, often talks about the dualistic mind in which dualistic thinking is the “well-practiced pattern of knowing most things by comparison. And for some reason, once you compare or label things (that is, judge) you almost always conclude that one is good and the other is less good or even bad. The world almost always presents itself as a paradox, a contradiction. In Ken Wilber's book No Boundary he says, "Most of our “problems of living,” then, are based on the illusion that the opposites can and should be separated and isolated from one another . . . Liberation is not freedom from the negative, but freedom from the pairs altogether . . . In Western terms, the discovery of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth is . . . the state of realizing “no opposites” and “not-two-ness, but of oneness.
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