Seeing Your Eyes
A Poem on the Three Mirrors
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To know your mind,
You need a little distance.
You need to be a step or two away
And be able to notice
What your mind is doing
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Without being so lost or involved in it
That you can’t see it.
It’s like trying to see your eyes.
If you want to see yourself,
You need to create some space,
You need a mirror.
Stillness, mindfulness, meditation:
Those are the mirrors.
The principal enemy of mindfulness — or of any meditative practice — is our deeply conditioned habit of being distracted by thoughts. The problem is not thoughts themselves but the state of thinking without knowing that we are thinking. — Sam Harris








