The Sacred Vision of Being

We are invited to recognise our true home in being – spacious, luminous and peaceful – which we seem to leave through thought (venturing into time) and perception (venturing into space). Drawing on Meister Eckhart’s ‘God is at home, but we are abroad’ and Wordsworth’s ‘Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting’, the meditation explores how we initially need to turn from thoughts and perceptions to access being. Yet eventually these become transparent to being, like a cinema screen visible through the images. Rather than a world pervaded by being, we understand that the world is being itself appearing through the filter of perception, giving rise to a sacred vision where no part of experience is not saturated with being.

We are invited to recognise our true home in being – spacious, luminous and peaceful – which we seem to leave through thought (venturing into time) and perception (venturing into space). Drawing on Meister Eckhart’s ‘God is at home, but we are abroad’ and Wordsworth’s ‘Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting’, the meditation explores how we initially need to turn from thoughts and perceptions to access being. Yet eventually these become transparent to being, like a cinema screen visible through the images. Rather than a world pervaded by being, we understand that the world is being itself appearing through the filter of perception, giving rise to a sacred vision where no part of experience is not saturated with being.