The light feels good because it allows us to see well enough to gain knowledge of our surroundings, and our situation in these surroundings, just as is possible during the day, when the sun gives us light (enough to know what lies around us). In the world of the physical body, we light lamps to brighten up a portion of our surroundings on a dark night. The presence of light in one’s life, mind, and consciousness, enables one us to pick out a path for oneself a path that cuts through all the clutter, and leads us to the destination(s) that we seek, for where our hopes lie, there we go ultimately. When there is light, we don’t stumble, because we can see the lay of the land, and the positioning of everything with respect to everything else, and the manner in which all things are laid out on this obstacle course (or game) that we call life. We are here to understand what each thing is to understand the relationships between different things, and different living beings to understand the relationships between the seemingly different, but integrated, worlds of the body, the mind and the spirit that define us to understand that everything is born of a single light a single ringing radiance a single reality the reality of consciousness. Light is a metaphor for that which allows us to see, and to know, and to understand: who we are, who everyone else is, and what we are all doing here. One uses this season, and this night, to remember the light, and to remind ourselves that it is light that we seek, at all times.
This is the season in which (and the night on which) one remembers the light.
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