The ground of being is that which embeds and transcends all opposites, manifesting all perception and all the cosmos. It is the implicit and imperceptible unity behind all explicit difference. Between the germinal opposition of light and dark emerge the earth and the sky, the trees and the rivers, the abject horrors and breath-taking beauties of all the world.
Behind it all, You abide. You, the forever witness and creator, marrying light and dark with your eyes, sound and silence with your ears, good and evil with your heart. You are the all-embracing love, the unitive and ever-fertile ground of being, the light that shines on all the ten thousand things.
You shine on all pain and all joy, on all thought forms and bodily sensations, on all the beatific landscapes of the universe and on all the suffering, discomfort and sadness of the world alike. Embracing all indiscriminately, without dimension, without location, without possession. It is only through your light that the river of life is manifested, known, held, and passes away.How does it feel to be the light that shines on all things?
(Pictured: Buddha Statue at Haeinsa Temple, Korea.)
