Barry writes snipped: The nature of the Image probably doesn't matter; it's the *process* of focusing one's attention that's important. And once the powerful attention of a powerful seeker has been focused on an object or a place or an activity, something of that attention remains, even when the seeker who infused it with his essence is dead and gone. Possibly it's the same thing for seekers who focus on spiritual teachers who are dead and gone.
TomT: Yup. What the hell have we been doing for the past 35 years except the focus has been on that which is not an object, nor a place nor an activity. Focus on that called the nothing and it turns into Everything.
