Moment by Moment by the Doobie Brothers

Jack Kornfield, in his book "Wise Heart," speaks of the fact that both light and consciousness manifest in both wave and partical form. He goes on to use the metaphors of "big sky," and "mirror-mind," and equates these with wave-like consciousness to show us possibilities of experience available to all.

If one can imagine that their consciousness is linked too and equivalent with that-which-is-the-sky, then one can experience the vastness of consciousness.  If in one's imagination a person can identify with and be-the-sky then in turn one's understanding of the essential truth of the energy of Love as that-which-binds and paradoxically that-which-is-unbounded takes root and begins to grow.  And  if one can let go and allow their partical-like consciousness to expand and flow wave-like, than I think the experience of life becomes freer.  Liberation becomes imaginable and there is inevitably a lessening of suffering.  "Suffering" understood as the buddhist dukka.  Our self-inflicted wounds.

When I think of mirror-like-mindedness...a camera comes to mind and at first anyway its easy to imagine being absorbed in image-making and in being-in-the-moment imaging being a camera.  The mirror in a camera filps the image so the mind can interpret and label and "control" the shapes and forms of various aggregates of energies-in-agreement, and tones and textures, light and shadow.  Merging and filling up.

I like both metaphors and find both to open doors to deeper experiences and explorations of consciousness.  Consciousness and how it plays with how it perceives and how it experiences the noumena of the phenomenon we call life.  If both light and consciousness manifest as both wave and partical, and if the stuff of what we call noumena (things) also manifests as both wave and partical, than it makes sense that everything that is, most especially including us, manifests as wave and as partical on multiple levels and dimensions simultaneously both in (our bodies) and out (our consciousness) of time.

We experience life in both its wave-like manifestations and its partical-like manifestations and when our manifestations happen to be in synch, when they happen to be in rhythm magic happens.   Life momentarily becomes a dance.  A party.  Examples of wave-like consciousness it seems to me then would be, among other things, music, dance, athletics, arts or certainly aspects of the artistic and creative processes.  Making love and baking cookies or knitting a homile to put above the kitchen clock.

Partical consciousness on the other hand, seems to refer to that moment-by-moment - second-by-second shifting/arising/falling/passing flow of the consciousness of time.  That "chasing-the-light" awareness when one experiences the world in "moments."  Moments of time.  Moments measured by the falling of a leaf, by a cloud shielding the sun, by time measured from dawn to dusk. Ahh these "magic moments" as my favorite boy-band singer once sang before he left to become a preacher man.  Sadly, too many lives can be distilled down to only a few good moments - a few magic moments.  So when we do  experience  moments of   joy and awe, of gratitude and grace.  Moments of understanding of timeless awakening, of perfection, of the kingdom.  We need to give thanks.

I think conditions are sometimes such that all is in synch.  Through my day job I am starting to learn and to see, how single-focused and concentrated energy can be effectively applied equally well to writing up legal documents and as applied to the art of creation and image-making.  But in photography alone  I come closest to being immersed in the ebb and flow the warp and weave the co-mingling of light as partical as it moves as it dances upon and across the subject framed by my lens........AND aware simultaneously of consciousness as wave form as joyful realities flow through me.  As I experience bliss and serenity, awe and mirth, dancing back and forth the Nikon tango light love art and being all dancing n sparkling all pulsing to different yet harmonious rhythms.  Equinamity arises!

The Doobies really were a great rock n roll band .  I take their advice often to simple "listen to the music," of the unfolding life-time-in-this-world playing my shaker adding my voice to the song.
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