Are We Just Shadow Boxing?

Plato’s Cave. You know, that parable about folks enthralled by the shadows cast on the cave wall. Backs turned away from the light which illuminates those images. Ignoring the opening leading to the the green grass, the open sky, and the shining Sun.

Two ways to take that. 

First, the obvious: our distraction and grappling with the goings on and things of the world. Coming and going. Getting and having. Doing ... and, doing ... and, doing. 

The second, less obvious, our identification with the discursive thoughts of the ego mind; i.e., “That’s me”. 

There’s that cliché, “Go toward the Light”. It has real application. It’s the Light on account of which you see the world, see your thoughts. The Light of consciousness. Better to say, the Light on* consciousness.

Step out from the shadows.

* When we register an experience of something, that's consciousness. When we notice that we notice, that's on account of the Light on consciousness. The Witness.