Ah, there are many Articles “out there” on the “World Wide Web”, that you can read, detailing the benefits of a regular “Sun Gazing” practice (done safely) and how it can Enhance your Meditation eh ? 🧐
But for those of us who perhaps live in Countries where the availability of Sunlight is not at all Guaranteed, let alone even remotely predictable, I am going to spend a few moments suggesting an alternative method for ensuring a daily boost of Energising Light-Invigorating-Energies … Why ? Because I’d say it’s like you’re suddenly feeling “Quantum Coherent” eh ? It really does “work” !!! 😉
Now you’ve probably already heard of S.A.D Lamps (Seasonal Affective Disorder) or Therapy Lamps, lamps that give out at least 10,000 Lux … because whether or not you do actually feel “down” during the Winter Season when there’s much less Daylight, I’m suggesting such lamps could be used ALL year long as a way of getting the benefits of exposure to Sunlight eh ? 😎
Oh, you may be on a shift-work-pattern and so it’s impossible to be up at the crack-of-dawn at the most appropriate time each day, so having one of these Lamps provides for some flexibility so that you can adapt your routine to include some “Lamp Time” eh ? ⏰
My current lamp is the Beurer TL90 (as above) [1]
In my experience, there are noticeable “effects” energetically, throughout the body, and at longer exposures of an hour or more, it leaves you feeling “Crystal Clear”, very lucid, just as it does sitting on the beach soaking up all the Rays eh ? Don’t forget all us Humans have Biological Bodies so it stands to reason there are optimum Environments where one’s Consciousness functions at its Best eh ? 🧐
OK, so what I’m talking about above are merely the Relative states you can find yourself in depending on various “external” conditions, not to mention the “inner weather” conditions that seemingly combine to give rise to our many varying “Moods” throughout the day … but these “surface” states-of-consciousness all come-and-go apparently beyond anyone’s “control” eh ? 🙏
However, in deep meditation, having penetrated beneath (or through) our “normal” sense-of-self-identification, what can be revealed is an Expansive, Luminous, Dynamic, Blissful Awareness free from ALL discursive thought, empty of content, yet vividly Awake eh ? Furthermore, IF such practices are maintained what can happen is the “falling away” [2] of our apparent surface identification exposing the non-dual nature of our Consciousness as it really is eh ? ❤️
[1] If you’re in the UK these are available for £90 (here) – RRP £130 (as of May 26th 2020)
[2] Ah, but it’s utterly non-Volitional, it’s a sort of a “spontaneous happening” (a Quantum Leap) nonetheless the reading of Anatta-related material as well as watching associated videos can sometimes “Trigger” it thus I’d suggest keeping tabs on JP’s Facebook Anatta Group eh ? 😉
Ah, here’s what Tulku Urgyen has to say about the difference between Thinking-Mind and the Nature-of-Mind eh ?
Oh, likewise, I’d say the egoic-self (in this case Kermit) is really just a Subconscious Projection from a deeper-plane-of-Reality … in other words it’s the “Hand of the Puppeteer” that’s actually animating Kermit whereas from Kermit’s dualistic illusory POV, he’d say he “chose” to see a Doctor to discuss his total Dissatisfaction at being a Muppet eh ?
Click for more information on : The Illusion of Free Will 😉
Oh, but I’d say simultaneously with the apparent “Gaining” of so-called “Enlightenment” is the Cessation of the illusory “separate self” eh ?
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Ah, but if I am to be fully Transparent (without Dishonesty) I should probably “confess” the small matter of HOW having such a bright-light-source as the Lamp can (if a Dark Retreat is not possible) Act as an effective secondary-cause for the potential manifestation of visual phenomena such as Tigles (thig le) eh ? 😉
Source : The Lukhang Murals Figure 29.2