| Subject: Re: MEDITATION - SOME ANALOGIES - CLEAR LIGHT AND THE SPECTRUM |
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Penny
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Date Posted: Wed, Dec 10 2003, 20:57:22
In reply to:
Penny
's message, "MEDITATION - BEING AND BECOMING" on Wed, Dec 10 2003, 17:45:33
Over three hundred years ago Isaac Newton demonstrated this magical fact of our everyday existence, which is still as fresh, startling and aweinspiring today as it must have been to his original audience. He created a dark room with a screen. In one of the blinds he made a small, neat hole which allowed a ray of sunlight to pass onto the screen. Then he placed a prism (a piece of cut glass with at least three sides) between the pinhole and the screen. The clear light of the sunbeam separated into bands of light, each displaying a different colour - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet - the colours of the rainbow. This we call the spectrum, a word which means simply spectacle or appearance. Most of us will have been intrigued by a similar demonstration in the science laboratory in school. Since colour defines form, it follows that all the objects of our awareness arise in a similar way. This brings us on quite naturally to another analogy which is often used to indicate the nature of meditative awareness and the difference between being and becoming.
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