This Is a Pencil

This is a pencil This was his challenge to a different understanding.. A proper challenge..I might add.. which can be boiled down to a choice of perception.. We appear to live in a world of separation..of duality.. and common sense asserts: yes..this indeed is a pencil.. A different knowing is suggesting a new..yet quite old perception.. Our inner subjectivity questions the solid object said of our pencil over there.. To then discover: the pencil is made of our seeing and touching and thinking.. these not separated from the "I" that is perceiving.. The Oneness of "I" asserts now and clears with joy centuries of illusory perception...