oranges out of the basket. You get rid of the object of perception.
And then the second orange (seeingness, the process of perception)
becomes conspicuous.
But once your seeingness has evolved, you operate in a different
way. You tune into an object or a person, you ‘switch on’ your
seeingness, and automatically you ‘see’. It does not matter at all
whether the object of perception is just in front of you or on the
other side of the planet or even on the other side of the galaxy.
You see. And often something uncanny happens: you may well
decide to close your eyes, in order to see something just in front
of you better.
Then the following question arises: how can you be completely
disinterested in the object, if you use the seeingness as a means of
seeing the object? The key to this paradox is: once you have
reached that stage, you are not looking at the object with your
mind anymore. The mind has become silent and you are seeing
from a much deeper and truer layer of yourself. A basic
prerequisite for higher perception lies in the silence of the layer
of ordinary mental consciousness.
That is why in the beginning the advice is: do not look at the
object, do not get too interested in it. Otherwise your mind will be
activated, since you have been conditioned for so long to operate
from only the mind. As soon as you are interested in something
your mind automatically tries to grasp it. Therefore it is better
not to think of the object at all, in order to allow the process of
vision to unfold.
Often in the beginning, you will have an interesting experience.
You will start seeing an aura or a different face, or a spiritual
being. Then suddenly you realize that you are seeing something...
and you instantaneously lose the perception. Why? Because your
mind has reacted. You have suddenly become interested,
frightened, or whatever; in other words, a grasping of the mind
has taken place. You are suddenly looking from the mind again.
And it's quite logical that you should lose the perception, since
ordinary mental consciousness is completely blind by nature. When
the perception process is engaged, it will go on as long as you do
not react and will stop with the first grasping of the mind.
Your perception always has the limits of your capacity not to
react.
barré
(Barré)
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