Through the practice of meditation, the disciple may very well find himself stuck in the twists and turns of the mind, trapped between the smoked glass panels, beyond which he will not discern much.
This is no different from the frameworks provided by religions.
These may be approached only through the mind and hold the believer hostage.
The practitioner’s mind, and the glass panels that compress it, are then decorated with action scenes, settings, and concepts.
In the case of both the meditator and the believer, this will involve limiting the field of consciousness to a constructed, familiar, and reassuring framework, similar to that provided by Plato’s allegory of the cave.
In both cases, it is also possible to think of these frameworks as a personal and progressive construction in which man ultimately finds himself trapped.
Or like internal prisons, designed to keep him away from investigations in freedom.
As long as we distinguish within a single unit of consciousness several layers, several degrees of knowledge/ignorance, we must not overlook the possibility that these two scenarios leading to confinement (autonomous and progressive construction and intentional structure created to confine) are both true.
Notes & Silence 