Sun-Sun-Sun!

For me, the 'whispered teaching' is: "the radiant star in the center of
our blue sky is THAT." Our PHAT THAT, so to speak.

Matter and spirit are a unity, notes on the same scale, or as Ram Dass
once said, "We're all just slowed-down light."

So when I read wonderful quotes such as

The Koranic verse, "God is the Light of the heavens and
the earth" (XXIV: 35), has been interpreted by the traditional
Islamic clergy to mean that God is the source of all
illumination for the heavens and the earth. The Sufis, on the
other hand, take this to mean that God is the very being, the
reality of the heavens and the earth.

This gives me a wonderful laugh, because all these deep thinkers and
vibrational ecstatics of course are right on, but just don't see what's
literally staring them in their kissers. Of course if you live in a
high-sun environs where literally there's nothing but blazing sun
all day every day, it becomes important - a necessity - to shade
yourself from the Presence, but with it you also lose the basic
Understanding. Too bad our bodies are so fragile. We have to create
shade and ornamental rose windows to filter the View.

Dedicated sun yogis like temperate climes - coastal foggy areas
that draw veils across the Divine Face in a rapturous peek-a-boo,
and of course those incredible aboreal temples... forest glades and glens.

The insight that there is only one Absolute Being in the
whole universe, and that whatever exists does so through
His existence, has been called the philosophy of the "Unity
of Being" (wahdato'l-wojud).

Of course, what did you expect? And the Big Bang was Absolute Being
seeding Herself through all space and time. Aditi! Great-to-the-tenth-
power GrandmaHattie!

Bringing it down to our galactic neighborhood (reality was designed for
the naked eye, not for fancy telescopes) Absolute Being manifests locally
as our star, which of course also shines from the innermost chamber of
our heart (that sings 'Al-lah-lah-lah' every second). As without, so
within... as above, so below.

To be more precise, however, this is not a philosophy
at all. A philosophy is something invented by the mind and
hence subject to change. The awareness of the Unity of Being,
though, is a perception of the heart and consequently ever-
lasting and unchanging.

The good old human penchant for abstract thought has caused a lot of
trouble. You can learn Solar Awareness from almost any other species,
cows for instance. No thought required! And I love the way the birds
follow the sun over the horizon by climbing higher and higher into
the treetops to sing one last loving goodnight to the light...
So wise!

In the words of Shah Nimatullah:
"Throughout the world
and everything within it,
Whatever is seen is but a reflection of a ray
from the Face of the Friend."

Mitra = Sun's name as 'Friend' in Sanskrit...

And repeating that earlier quote from Zajonc's "Catching the Light; The
Entwined History of Light and Mind:"
"Light itself is always invisible. We see only things, only objects, not
light."

Hm, wonder why that's true, hm, hm... (ha-ha-ha!) Maybe that's how
Yahweh became the 'invisible God...'

(Apologies for these ramblings... but just had to say a few words.)
Rigpa = realizing I am the sunlight in this body...? YUM!