driving.
Then the purpose is to extend your awareness to more and more of
your activities, until you reach a constant focus in the eye. At one
stage this eye-centred awareness will become automatic and
effortless. It will be integrated into all your actions. Then you
become a candidate for initiation.
Think of all the monks who spend their lives in a monastery with
nothing else to do than pray or meditate from morning to night.
Only a small percentage of them will reach the enlightenment
they are after. How then could you hope to have a chance, just by
meditating 20 minutes twice a day and being caught in the turmoil
of modern life the rest of the time?
The answer lies in extending your awareness to every situation of
your daily life. Start using the world to become more aware. Then
the world becomes your teacher instead of your adversary. The
most insignificant circumstances turn into beautiful opportunities
to test and enhance your centredness and your vigilance. For it is
very possible to slumber in a monastery, to withdraw into a
disconnected inner life that avoids key issues and leads nowhere.
Whereas if you accept facing the world, then the world will make
sure that you face yourself.
Now please do not make being in the eye a painstaking process –
have fun! The Clairvision techniques have been designed for you to
play with. There can be a foolish way of remaining in your head
all day, only remembering your purpose of vigilance from time to
time and getting angry at yourself for letting your mind wander.
Instead of being swallowed by your daily routines and
remembering the focus in the eye only now and then, I would
suggest that in the beginning, you apply yourself to performing
certain actions with a total awareness between the eyebrows.
For instance, do the dishes being 100% in the eye. If you put all of
yourself into it, after a few times it will become automatic: each
time you start washing up the presence in the eye will come by
itself. Incidentally, note that washing up can become a very
refreshing activity if you use a flow of running water and release
your tensions and wrong energies into it as you process the dishes
(technique 4.12).
Several activities that would usually be regarded as plain and
boring will become unexpectedly fascinating if you perform them
from the eye. As more and more seeingness and vision are added to
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