External appearance, Internal experience

An inside investigation of External Appearances

It is a common belief that a recluse or a monk which dedicates his life to meditation, or generally anyone who practices meditation or any kind of technique to develop spiritual awareness, is escaping into a mental state of divine peace and harmony. This is the external appearance of things, but actually the internal experience is totally different.
Few know that the true purpose of meditation isn’t to experience peace and harmony but rather to purify the defilement in the mind.

Anyone who has ever honestly tried to explore oneself by meditative means knows that actually, the internal experience of the battle for the meditative state of mind is comprised mostly of long stretches of conflict and misery, the result of the dualistic consciousness, including its infinite passions, desires, doubts and fears, which lead deep into the ultimate cause of the disease – the Ego (In its Buddhist definition, not the Freudian), which creates the illusion of the “I” and then confronts it with it’s own perceptions.

The external appearance of the internal experience

The common attribute for enlightenment or divine mental state is depicted around the white figure, which is absorbed within deep light blue – this is what we perceive from the outside, hence the external appearance of things. What separates this state from its real nature on the other side is the complementary color orange.

The internal experience, hence the true state of mind of the meditator would then be that of conflict and torment, the very essence of the existential suffering, depicted by the diabolic pentagram of Baphomet around the head of the figure, which symbolizes the evil satanic darkness within each of us, and in this case within the meditator’s mind. The figure is absorbed in rough, violent and hot red and is separated from the external appearance by the complementary color green. The use of complementary colors emphasizes the conflict in debate.

The two primary colors are the foundations of the whole; hence the good and evil which constitute and are contained within any conscious being, but the appearance and the experience are almost always totally opposite, hence the emphasized separation between them. This is also in the case of every other element or phenomenon in nature and the universe.