The darkness inspires awe, even as the divine faces around me are illuminated for my mortal eyes.
The cavern’s patterns, the motifs, the mosaics, the chapels, the shrines. Mortal channels of traceless wisdom and compassion. Tangible expressions of immaterial insight.
Within this cool shroud of black, with only a streak of warm illumination from the hot star outside the cave, I am immersed in the ineffable infinity, among the stars and the pantheon of the “beyond beings.”
This is the enlightened holy of holies, crafted by inspired hands.
A bell rings.
The summons has been made. The call, echoing to all sentient beings. To return to the Buddha, to their true nature.
All are one in the Dharma. This is what has been revealed to us in this grotto.
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