Life is but a dream
Different religions relate to the sense of sight in different ways. In Diana L. Eck's book Darsan: Seeing The Divine Image In India she compares and contrasts the difference between the traditions in the east and the west in relationship to sight. She writes that western traditions who have a propensity to hold God as something separate from what we can see condemn practices such as darsan that worship of a deity through sight. In contrast Eastern traditions tend to believe that one can see and be seen by the deity, a manifestation of God, because God is in all things. The investigation of worship through sight in Eck's book has been truly illuminating and inspiring. It is especially fascinating to me in the context of Buddhist philosophy. Hinduism and Buddhism have many things in common. For example, the concept of every person having the light of God within them as referenced by the greeting Namaste corresponds to the buddhist principle that all living beings have Buddha n