The Lightbulb

Electricity, the light bulb if you will, got us away from the value of darkness.  For one, the outer light of electricity says it is the source of light in the night.  But in the darkness, before electricity, we knew the light was within us.  The indwelling light is what shows us the true way.  It may be why we close our eyes in meditation.  When we are not in touch with the inner light we tend to not pay much attention to what is really going on.  Outer sight  prefers appearances.  The bulb makes us lazy.  Appearances make for a superficial sense.  As Barbara Taylor Brown might say, you mistake such sight for perception.  A blind person is much more aware of what is going on.  They don't skip over things in a room.  They have to notice.  On a street corner they listen.  They are aware.  They are not looking at their cell phone as they cross the street.  The blind are quite likely to pay attention to the indwelling light.