Points of View

​Points of View

Notice the graphic:
Are the windows opening or closing? 
Is it sunrise or sunset?
Is the glass half empty or half full?
It depends on your point of view.

​THE TUTORIAL
 
Whenever we are speaking about One Life Awareness, we are speaking in some ways about that particular point of view, and yet we like to be absolutely clear that a particular point of view is a limitation. What we're really talking about is all points of view simultaneously interacting with each other in the grand display of phenomena which is not One Life Awareness but is life.
 
The Buddhists will often talk about the pure view and from our perspective, it is helpful guidance to find a path, to find a perspective that may be of great value to you. And yet we would suggest that you cultivate many points of view; because with more points of view you have more information about the nature of reality. You have the opportunity to see things from many different perspectives and many different sides. And it loosens your attachment to whatever point of view may become your favorite. If you find that you have a favorite point of view, we would say you found the nature of your natural mechanism for limiting your perception of life. You found the way that you draw boundaries around things, because your point of view necessarily means that another's point of view is outside of your point of view. It might interact and overlap here and there, but it is never going to be your point of view. But, if you have multiple point points of view, you have multiple ways to explore and experiment with the nature of your sense of reality. It is all of these points of view that construct your reality, and you are processing millions of points of view in every moment. So why limit yourself to what you perceive is your own point of view, or what you might think is the pure point of view? That view is just an opinion. Be an artist in your life, as artist has to take many points of view in order to understand the nature of an object or person that they might be painting or sculpting. An artist has to incorporate more than just one position in order to get a full representation that becomes their art. Even non-representational art requires many points of view to produce. We are using this as an example, wishing to suggest to you that you really are the artist that is generating the picture of your life. Inform it from many angles, from many perspectives. Let them all naturally weave together and have the biggest view possible. It is from that enormously open and free view that you will find who and what you really are, which is nothing but One Life, One Life Awareness.

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