If your mind names what you're looking at, ignore the naming and look with more intensity. If your mind talks about what it imagines is being seen, ignore the talking, and look with more intensity. Keep shifting away from thoughts to what you can see. It is like learning to speed read. The goal is to see and understand without verbalization or reflection.
Look at your "hand," "wrist," and "arm." Where, precisely, does one thing stop and the next thing begin? Are there lines separating these things? No. All of the boundaries are imaginary. Let that sink in for a moment. Then, look again at what is in front of your eyes without imagining a hand, wrist, or arm. You are then looking at the truth without knowing or imagining anything (any thing) about it. Spend some time staring at the unified wholeness in front of your eyes, and then lift your eyes and look around yourself with the same kind of not-knowing. Your mind will want to name what you are looking at, and also comment upon what you're looking at, but ignore the mind's verbalizations and stay focused on "what is." It will require some practice, but you can learn to look at the world without knowing or imagining anything. Remember, all boundaries are imaginary. In front of your eyes there is only oneness. Thinking is what creates the illusion of separateness. In the real world there are no things, only a unified suchness.
The ego is a very deep structure of mind, so it is not nearly as easy to see through that illusion as it is to see through the illusion of "hand-wrist-arm." Start with the simple stuff and let that kind of seeing pave the way to deeper seeing.
Look at your "hand," "wrist," and "arm." Where, precisely, does one thing stop and the next thing begin? Are there lines separating these things? No. All of the boundaries are imaginary. Let that sink in for a moment. Then, look again at what is in front of your eyes without imagining a hand, wrist, or arm. You are then looking at the truth without knowing or imagining anything (any thing) about it. Spend some time staring at the unified wholeness in front of your eyes, and then lift your eyes and look around yourself with the same kind of not-knowing. Your mind will want to name what you are looking at, and also comment upon what you're looking at, but ignore the mind's verbalizations and stay focused on "what is." It will require some practice, but you can learn to look at the world without knowing or imagining anything. Remember, all boundaries are imaginary. In front of your eyes there is only oneness. Thinking is what creates the illusion of separateness. In the real world there are no things, only a unified suchness.
The ego is a very deep structure of mind, so it is not nearly as easy to see through that illusion as it is to see through the illusion of "hand-wrist-arm." Start with the simple stuff and let that kind of seeing pave the way to deeper seeing.
