The Window

There is a kind of window in our lives, through which everything can be seen with perfect clarity. We can search for this window, but we cannot search for the view that appears through it. Because we have no idea what that view might be like. Whatever we say or write cannot compare to the actual experience.

We can ask for peace, for comfort. But we cannot directly ask for enlightenment or the vision of truth. Because we have no conception of what that might be.

The window is actually within us—in this very body and mind. But curtains have been drawn across it. From childhood's innocent freedom, we have gradually entered into fear, doubt, guilt, and artificial rules. Under the pressure of religion and society, the light from that window is quickly covered.

Yet through the ages, some people have reminded us—"There is a window through which life can be seen clearly."

We need only abandon the false notion that we are not standing before the window. We need only reach out and move the curtain aside.

But the problem is—the ego has become very powerful. It does not want to give up its place easily.

So if we want to see the truth, we must battle the ego within us. And at the end of that battle, we will find—love.