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.

Select something as hard, discrete, and tangible as a rock.

In fact, if you can, find a big hunk of rock somewhere close to home, and simply look at it. A big boulder would be ideal. Contemplate it. Don't imagine what it is, don't think about it, and don't comment upon it. Just look. Hold attention upon what is seen. If the question arises, "What am I looking at, really?" or "What is that before I imagined it was a rock?" that's okay. Bear the questions in mind and keep looking.

When beginning this exercise/experiment, it will feel as if you are something "in here" looking at something "out there," but if you continue, you will eventually enter a state of unknowing (agnosia). You will not know what you are looking at, and you will not know what is looking. If looking continues past this point, the entire world as it is now known, will eventually distintegrate. All boundaries will collapse, and boundaries will then be seen for the illusions that they are.

The truth is much stranger than can be imagined.