The Sun Is Also Faith

The sun is such an immaculate metaphor. It stands for nothing but itself. But in terms of human life its patterning needs much interpretation. There is no such thing on earth as pure sunlight, only the objects that diffuse it. Likewise there are those phases of day and life that creep around the idea of sun and establish themselves in relation to its coming and going. Those states of mind.

I would like to shine like the pure sun itself but I have to have regard for the small plants around me which depend on my diffusion. They need me to pattern and regulate myself. And many of those small plants are the different stages of consciousness which exist just below the surface. You find them in the 'pre-sun', in the dew, in the pang of unconscious light circulating among the leaf-buds. Therefore, in a sense the sun is metaphor for ego - but ego must be mediated by growth and development, by dependents who teach you how much self they need from you.

The sun itself. Can we admit it's pure spirit? Can we believe it's what we are when we've woken up, when we've gathered up every experience of subconscious momentum, every requirement of daily mediation and regulation? Here lives the blazing power of faith. The faith to conceive and transform, the faith to become sunlike. Therefore, the sun is also faith.

Jay

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