It All Comes Down to Sensing, Looking & Listening
I was meditating. My mind was restless. As I worked on concentrating my attention, I naturally began sensing, looking & listening. It was early morning, about 5am. Quiet with just a bird or two.
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As I worked with sensing, looking and listening, I realized that these three modes of perceiving were really just simple discriminations of a more fundamental mode of perception – that of the soul. The field of consciousness which perceives is the perceiver, the perceiving and the perceived. (you can order a t-shirt by clicking on the image)
Continuing to sense, look and listen, I was soon hearing through my eyes and seeing through my ears. Everything is simply a form within the field of consciousness which is known by the simple fact that consciousness is a self-aware medium – not two.
When the meditation ended, I wasn’t quite sure what/who was getting up out of the chair. I did however note that it was a beautiful day arising, that somehow seemed to feel very close to the perceiver.
I first read abo9ut sensing, looking and listening in Waking Up by Charles Tart – that was a lifetime ago – about 1981. The Diamond Approach teaches sensing, looking and listening as one of its main practices. I remember John Davis, a teacher of the Diamond Approach saying that basically it’s all just sensing, looking and listening. His meaning being that the intention to sense, look and listen are all about presence, perception, emptiness. All spiritual practices are simply some version or elaboration of sensing, looking and listening.
Void of night
A dead calm sea
Ubiquitous stars
Above and below
Which is the reflection
The eyes cannot tell
Let awareness
Be like this
Holding the entirety
Equally
Inner – outer
Objective – subjective
Circles for the mind
Here
The vast infinite
Stretches you
Beyond the dual
Into everywhere