Eyes-Open and Eyes-Closed Meditation

A man asks about meditation and the denial of perception. He kept his eyes open for some of the meditations and felt the presence of awareness in the room. Are the meditations a way of going beyond perception? Rupert responds that eyes-open and eyes-closed are both valid. Eyes-closed is a way of temporarily turning away from the content of experience to recognise the being behind it all. Eyes-open allows us to come back to the world with this recognition. The world is rejected in some paths; here we include it all. We turn away to recognise our true nature and turn back to see it in the world where all experience is pervaded with the same being.

From event 27 March - 03 April, 2022 Seven Day Retreat at Garrison Institute – 27th March to 3rd April

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