Let’s look a bit closer at looking.
Or noticing more about noticing.
“Geblendet von Mond wird die Nacht sein.” Friederike Mayröcker (Blinded by moon the night will be)
From any point, you can turn inward.
Look within.
Turn around.
Observe yourself.
With the mind, observe the mind.
There might be thought, and you are carried away. — Once you are aware of this, you can try again. And again….
There might be feeling, and you are carried away…..
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You observe, and don’t get carried away: thoughts come, and go. Feelings come, and go. You train, until this works.
Once this works, you practice this.
Naming, or acknowledging anything, like an observer, or the process, or perceiving progress, any concept, like for example nothing; you have already been carried away. Discard, and start again.
Start with “Beginner,s mind”, breathe properly, focus on the dantien, (a decent posture might be helpful), observe your mind.
You are looking at yourself. You might wonder who it is that’s looking, so turn, and look at that one.
Is the self, are you, created? How? When? go, find out.
Turn around, look within.
Look yourself in the eye, before you were (are?) created.
No second hand knowledge, find out yourself.
No need to go anywhere, it’s right there, inside you.
“looking” is not meant literally, you could be blind and “look within”. On my journey, I was given the advice once: “Look with eyes that have no memory”. Now I say: observe with a mind unburdened by knowledge, concept, truth, or other limitations.
And don’t forget, any distinction, any preference, any naming, any acknowledging, — start again, — “Beginner’s mind”….
