The sound of the heater turned back on and my head turned in that direction of the sound.
And I glanced across the tea kettle on the stove,
Just sitting there.
I saw more into the tea kettle,
Or actually more behind the tea kettle.
It was a flat surface,
The usual view of things of just like a photograph being flat.
And the tea kettle now stood out from the background of the stove.
It needed to,
It's like a silhouette,
It needed to have something behind it in order for me to see the tea kettle as a seemingly separate object.
Then I noticed the stove became separated from the background of the wall behind it.
And I realized that there's a foreground of what I'm seeing and a background behind it that's usually just background.
And that background then can become the foreground of the background behind that.
I started exploring and noticed with the tea kettle as foreground,
The stove as background.
Then the background of stove became its foreground and the wall behind the stove became the background.
Not just the part of the wall that I could see behind the stove,
But the entire wall of that room.
And that room of the house became the foreground for the background of the entire house.
And then the house,
The background of house,
Became the foreground for the earth behind the house.
And then the earth of background became the foreground for the background of space behind earth.
And then the background of space became the foreground for the background of God.
And I slipped into this feeling sense of seeing,
Thinking,
And feeling.
And I realized that not just visual images have foreground and background,
And you can shift going from one to the other until you get so enmeshed,
So unstuck in the foreground,
Seeing the next background and then becoming unstuck in that background,
Seeing the next one and the next and the next,
Until this becomes like emotions,
Going through levels of emotion where each emotion is the foreground for the background behind it.
As one sound in the foreground,
Just as one image in the foreground,
Is just the foreground for what's behind it.
And as that sound of the heat coming back on builds behind me,
That's just the foreground for the background of the AUM,
All the sound put together of the universe.
And allowing the foreground to be there by focusing on the background,
You become unstuck in the foreground.
And as you become unstuck layer by layer by layer,
You go into finding happiness.
