before i came to bali, i met with an eye doctor that teaches the Bates method of improving ones' eyesight in order to see without glasses...i was given a number of different types of exercises to practice everyday, with the promise that in another 2-3 months i will see the results. It was brought in a very fun way and so i have been enjoying doing them and sharing them.
what also fascinates me with this little "project" of mine, is that it is interesting to recognize spiritual truths in the process. for instance, part of the exercises is looking at "magic eye" pictures (those books that were published in the 90:'s where you put a repetitive colorful picture close to your face and slowly move it away and it suddenly turns three dimensional).
when i first tried, it suddenly reminded me of what rav laitman says about there being layers of reality that exist at this moment, and our spiritual development reveals this same reality but in a deeper way which changes the material world we see at present. that was so tangible when looking at the pictures, how a flat piece of paper, suddenly became three dimensional only because of a change in the way i viewed it.
as i continue to practice looking at these pictures everyday, as part of my exercising eye muscles that allow to see better, 2 things have happened...one is that the 3 dimensional picture, has slowly received even more depth from day to day! even though it was already 3 dimensional...suddenly the next day, the same picture now includes even more things that were not visible for the past month and a half!
the second thing i wanted to share was that while i was doing the exercise yesterday,, of looking at one of the pictures for a minute, a small insect was coming close to my eyes, and i knew that if i move my hand the 3D effect will disappear, so i decided just to exhale a bit of breath to try and push the little fella away from me...and suddenly i saw how from an image that had 3 circles one behind the other, it changed to 2 circles....just because i was annoyed by the insect and was trying to shoo it away,. it persisted to interfere with my sight and so i again blew a bit of air and the circles on the page turned into 1....and i suddenly realized that when something annoys me, the way i see reality totally changes! it actually changes!! i can no longer see the depth of life, the many layers that reflect the whole picture, but am suddenly in a superficial, flattened view of reality!
this is a blog about me and bali...and i realize that being in such an unstressed beautiful environment, with no pressure on me, enjoying this perfect reality allows me a deeper sensation to my life. it allows to be relaxed, to step back, detach, and feel gratitude and love....now the intention can be to bring this to wherever i live in the world, at every moment.
i just finished posting this blog and began to read rav laitmans blog from today and found this:
"A person needs to understand that the perception of reality is relative and depends on the point of view, which is possible to change. In such a way also the reality changes, because it is, of course, existing only to the person that feels it. Therefore, if he wants to change his life, he needs to change his reality. He is capable of this even today, from this present moment onwards, and from this world to the infinite world."
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