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If Thine Eye Be Single
Been puzzling over Jesus’ saying in Matthew 6:22 for quite a while: “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”
And I just found the best explanation of that I have so far ever seen. It comes from one of Douglas Harding’s Headless Way experiments called, oddly enough, the Single Eye.
Here’s just a taste of it. I highly recommend checking out *all* the exercises for yourself though, as I have been personally getting a lot out of them.
How many eyes are you looking out of? Of course other people see two eyes when they look at you, and you see two in the mirror. But how many do you see from your own point of view? Take a fresh look at yourself. Perhaps you have been overlooking something both obvious and wonderful.
I am looking out of one eye. In fact, it’s not even an eye – it’s an edgeless, undivided Space, a frameless, wide-open Window. From this clear Window I can at this moment see my desk and computer, and beyond these things my garden.
This Single Eye is not a human eye. It is God’s Eye, the Eye of the One Self, the Eye of the Buddha…
Are you also looking out of a frameless Window, a Single Eye – God’s Eye?
You might also enjoy my related podcast, Mysteries of the Bible.
December 19th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
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December 21st, 2006 at 2:22 pm
I like Dawkins’ explaination better. It’s our brain’s “software” rendering the world around us from the input of both eyes.
December 21st, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Rendering it where?
December 21st, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Tim, come back with me. Oh, Christ, Tim, come back. Please. [leaves]
Tim, you gave her hope. You gave her hope! You can’t walk away.
I had to, to get to the boy. He’d been violated. She didn’t do it. She couldn’t have. We have to help.
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Tim, You soothe your conscience with grand phrases, but it’s a weak, contemptible man who trades in the lives of others.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Mark, WTF?!
Anyhow, Tim, I just wanted to mention I was on BB this morning and they were recommending a book called ‘Losing our heads,’ big gory image of JTB on the cover…thought you’d get a kick out of that.
December 25th, 2006 at 12:18 am
maybe I’m just missing something, but…. looking through one eye? now I’m not christian, and have never read Matthew 6:22 before tonight, but it strikes me as one of those “one foot in heaven, one foot in hell” types of things… you can’t take two paths, you have to pick one, and if that one is “seeing” the glory of god, you’re full of his light… ‘course this is only my interpretation, and as I’ve said, I’m by no means a scholar… I can say that I physically see out of two eyes, I can tell this by looking at my nose from either side or squinting one eye, etc… my field of view overlaps, yes, but that doesn’t mean I’m looking through a single eye… or am I just being obtuse and missing some deeper meaning that you’re all driving at?
December 25th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Again, I can’t help but think that putting the “experiencing of reality” to be the goal of ethical behavior — rather than the other way around — is putting the cart before the horse.
December 25th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
You said this, Tim, in your post “Why Magick?” That’s what I’m more-or-less arguing. What I’d argue is that we alter consciousness and junk so that we can act as we should in the universe around us, which seems to be what you said in the quote above. Sorry about busting everyone’s balls over this — maybe not very moral of me? hee hee
I guess I’m primarily concerned about morality because I want to avoid cosmic punishment for doing the wrong things. If it doesn’t help me avoid cosmic punishment for my sins, I don’t see the practical need for spirituality or the near-insanity of trying to pay attention to every motherfucking moment. Any input, or am I just being dumb again?