the way you perceive space in your daily activities. For the
practices dealt with in this section it would be best if you could be
outside, in a garden or forest.
Practise looking at trees and flowers while being in the eye. Sit
comfortably somewhere, not necessarily in a meditation posture.
Just be relaxed. Reconnect with the eye, between the eyebrows.
Keep your eyes open. It is better not to move too much, but you
do not have to adopt a statue-like attitude as in the eye contact
practices.
Resume the triple process of vision, with:
- awareness in the eye
- awareness of the fact of seeing, or seeingness. If seeingness is
too much of a problem, just feel the image instead of looking at it. - the feeling from the heart
You will notice that while focussed in the eye, your perception of
the countryside changes slightly. A first simple difference is that
your perception is more global: it encompasses more of what is
located at the periphery of the image. Instead of selecting a part
and unconsciously focussing on it, you remain aware of the whole
tableau.
But there is more than this increase of peripheral perception.
Compared to what you would usually see, the image seems to be
‘less flat’. The air seems to ‘take dimension’. There seems to be
more perspective, more relief. As you go on developing your eye,
this contrast will appear more and more clearly. The difference
between the vision of the third eye and the usual one is similar to
that between reality and a postcard, or between a holographic
picture and a flat one. The eye seems to add a stereoscopic
dimension to the image even without going into extra-sensory
perception or vision of auras.
Another noticeable difference is that the image seems to be more
‘alive’. The colours are more vivid, as if endowed with an intensity
and a vitality of their own. The colours talk to your soul, they
communicate their qualities. There is definitely a feeling of
aliveness permeating the whole picture. Your physical vision is
suddenly greatly embellished: it is as if you were rediscovering the
world! And all you have to do in order to reach this other vision is
to step a little out of the layer of the mind in which you have
been conditioned to operate. Remember that as soon as you enter
the eye you are already half-way out of the mind.