« From Poetic to Prosaic and Back »

"Man is a window into himself; and man is a landscape that gazes through it" (says Vesna Krmpotic in Eyes of Eternity).

Whenever I encounter a poetic expression of nonduality such as this one, I consume it first (by allowing it to confuse me) and then I clarify it (by reducing the poetic to the prosaic).

For example: "mind is both that which looks and that which is looked at;" or - we are both the Subject and the Object of our own introspection; or - "tat tvam asi" (Sanskrit for "I am that"); or something along these boring tautological lines.

Move your mind from the clarifying confusion of poetry to the confusing clarity of prose.  And back!