This blog presents a mélange of comments and confessions concerning this unlit light – brighter than the light of a thousand suns – in which, right now, your perception of this web page and the deciphering of these words is happening.
– unknowable Light of Being-ness
– vast unoriginated self-luminous wisdom space
– naked, nondual, primordial Awareness
– changeless immeasurable Presence
– ordinary, everyday Buddha mind
so many inadequate words for your bright beingness!
NB: Please don’t imagine that this unlit light is some separate object doing the perceiving and deciphering. It does zilch, yet cannot be separated from these functions. It is not categorizing, interpreting, or conceptualizing. These functions spring from thinking’s database of memory and conditioning. If you are inclined to inquire into them, the inquiry will again be arising within this unchanging, utterly impartial unlit light.
… and this Light does know all other light as its shadow
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– miriam louisa
this unlit light 
How lovely to find you
Welcome Lesley! And thanks for leaving a comment 🙂
Warmly, lightly –
miriam louisa
Hi, nice to meet you !
Beautiful!
Thank you for visiting and reading and commenting dear Gary! Welcome.
🙂 ~ ml
“… and this Light does know all other light as its shadow”
This light doesn’t know any other light at all!
Truly — all is this Light.
For everyone (paradoxical as that may sound — it isn’t, though).
Love and Peace…
Couldn’t agree more dear Tim.
But that’s how the phrase landed in this pain-wracked brain. Biblical-speak almost.
Koan-like, it was a wondrous riddle for years. Until it wasn’t.
Thanks for visiting and commenting … Love and Peace to ‘you’ too … Lightbeam Tim ~ ml
Thanks, ml — drop on by my Yahoo group sometime, if you like and have the time (it’s in the website link). It’s kind of more ‘hardcore’ advaita, direct pointing, but there’s never any flaming or conflict there.
Peace…
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I have nominated you for ‘A Thought Provoking Blog’ Award…..thanks…
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Hello again dear *In Blue* – and thank you for also including this little blog in your list of nominations. I am doubly honored!
There are so many “thought provoking” blogs – and I realize I only know a handful of them. On this blog they are gathered on the *blogamigos* page: https://thisunlitlight.com/blogamigos/
I enjoy your beautiful blog ~ ml
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Hello Miriam, I have nominated you for a Liebster Award. Your blog has such a beautiful, pristine energy I just feel like being here long after I finish reading your posts. Please do collect it if you feel like from here: http://wp.me/p2x7VR-oM
Thank you dear Aalif – for the nomination and for your lovely feedback!
Some years ago this little blog became an award-free zone. But that doesn’t mean I’m not touched by your generosity.
Again – thank you, Liebster!
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Thank you Miriam for including mySelf in your ‘wide awake women’ list 🙂 WordPress sent a ‘your year of blogging’ data and your inclusion is inviting people to check out the Right Here, Right Now Blog…lovely to find this out and to find you and your lovely poetry, and lovely heart – it seems to myself that your heart is spilled all over these pages and that is a wonderful happening!
with love, Canela