Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

I would ascribe paramount importance to shifting attention away from thoughts

...(which are products of imagination) to what can be directly perceived. This can be done by attending sense perception, attending thoughts dispassionately without following them (much like watching clouds move through the sky), attending awareness (observing the observer), attending the sense of I Amness (the practice pursued by Niz), or attending existential questions in silence.

It seems to me that trying to imagine anything simply reinforces the habit of mind that is the primary factor of obscuration, so I see no value in using imagination at all. I suggest that people get out of their heads as much and as often as possible by looking at the world and interacting with it through their body and senses.