The Dark Room

Imagine yourself waking up to blackness. You open your eyes, but see nothing. You are afraid. You rise up carefully and slowly reach out your hand. There is something in front of you. It is a fabric covering something. You feel your away along it. You rise carefully into the blackness and reach out into the space in front of you. There is a flat structure. You press your hands against it, then move your hand along the flatness till you reach something on the wall. It is some sort of small moveable  object. You press it and slowly shapes begin to appear around you. They are incorporeal at first, like images on the inside of your eyelds. But then their edges begin to sharpen. There is what, a chair, then a bed, then a lamp, a table. Slowly the light comes up and a room comes into reality. Then there is full light. You see the room completely. You see yourself.

This is a reasonable representation of moving from not understanding into understanding. One does not know where one is or even that the room is there. One assumes that there is something more to see and is willing to see it. 

Emotions, fear, hate,  sorrow, regret are a part of the understanding process.. Without experiencing this emotion finding the room may be difficutl. Without a willilngness to understand despite emotion we may not locate the light switch and be stuck in the darkness. Once there is light unwanted emotions disappear in understanding. 

We likely exist in a series of self-created darkened rooms. Walk in and turn on the lights, one by one, and the rooms will brighten. Not all at once. There are a great many more than one room! But they get easier to step into and to light. There is a much brighter world to see.