The world is just a painting!🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Consciousness is the stuff of which this world is made. But we are so enamored of the picture that we forget to see the canvas. This is a technique to shake you out of the routine way of perceiving the world. As your perception shifts, the world itself ‘shifts’ to reveal its true nature.

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You are so used to seeing the world around you as real. Now, start seeing it just as a painting! When you are sitting, walking, moving, touching – visualize that everything around you is just two-dimensional, like a painting on a vast canvas. When the dimension of depth is lost, the world itself starts looking like a picture – the picture that it really is. Objects and people will no longer look solid. Without depth, how can you take this world seriously? Slowly, the material world will slowly start losing its reality. All the dualities of good and bad, near and far, loved and hated – all the differences that you see are no more than strokes of different colors on the same canvas! As the differences lose meaning, the canvas on which the painting has been created draws your attention to itself.

Once the underlying oneness is perceived, even the differences become a source of joy.

And as you go deeper into this understanding, even this idea of ‘difference’ is lost! Not only the canvas, but the paint, the painter, the brush and the art – all stand revealed as nothing but the play of Consciousness itself.

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

We always experience ourselves as moving characters in an unmoving world. We feel that we are changing, transient, while the objective reality appears solid and unchanging. That is why we always give more importance to the outer reality than to the inner reality. This technique reverses our perception, helping us glimpse that actually it is the seen which changes, while the seer remains unchanged.