Get The Big Picture

We need to get the big picture before we get into the details. 
Essence before form. 
When we become wrapped up in rituals, we ignore what it’s all about.

We are pure consciousness. That is the big picture, but this is obscured by distractions. The way we work is down to our individual emphases – whatever we’re concerned about, which is an personal matter – and this is also the reason why there are many traditions.

One’s emphasis may be confusion, doubt, fear, anger, distrust, dissatisfaction … or we just feel miserable. These feelings are what obscure pure seeing – and that is our path.

It could be that we are too keen to be an ‘expert’ in the minutia of details, which may turn out to be trifles.
Trifle: from Old French, truffler ‘to mock, to deceive’.

The big picture is the simplest picture 
– not at all complicated, or convoluted with contrivances.