Foreground and Background
Primer plano y fondo
A reflection on how shifts in perspective, like the movement between absorption and awareness, are secondary to what is always already present.
Foreground and Background
A reflection on how shifts in perspective, like the movement between absorption and awareness, are secondary to what is always already present.
You can look at it one way, then look at it the other way, and there is a sense of a shift: the foreground becomes the vase, or the foreground becomes the faces. But actually, both were always there.
The illusion of movement
The movement of something going into foreground and background is, in a sense, also part of what we could call the illusion, something that is not real. In the metaphor of that image, what is real is that there is paper with an image that can be interpreted in different ways. But once that reality becomes obvious, once you see that it is always the case, then the movement is secondary. The movement of "now I'm in absorption" or "now, awareness" is secondary.