I have closed my eyes to see everything.

I have closed my eyes to see everything.
BUDDHA
When you close your eyes, what can you see?
Many would postulate that once your eyes are closed, the vision stops. Yet in the world of dreams, our vision, perspective, and experiences may, in many cases, outweigh, that which we are able to experience in the real world.
In the mind’s eye, we are able to conjure countless permutations far above, and beyond anything, which we might potentially witness with our own eyes.
When the Buddha expresses this sentiment, I believe he references the ability to take in all different forms of reality, experience, opportunity, circumstance, and ultimately find a cohesive perspective on everything.
Many times, our vision clouds our judgment, based upon whatever triggers that we are seeing, may evoke within us. These distractions, triggered by emotion, can be both detrimental and harmful to our overall well-being, if we are not wise enough to sequester them in our own mind long enough to respond properly, rather than to react.
In our quiet, calm state, with our eyes closed, we are almost always capable of filtering out all distraction, to enable us to have a much more focused perspective on the variables that we wish to concentrate on.
In the choice to close our eyes and enable these extrasensory perceptions, to do their best work for us, we are facilitating some of the most important resources at our disposal.
Happy Monday!
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