Waking Up Daily Meditation 19 Sep '21 - Visual Field as Reflective Glass
Published at : September 24, 2021
Continuing the recent theme of eyes-open daily meditations, Sam talks about imagining your visual perception as a single field of color and light. He does this to to directing you to turn your attention back on itself, inspired by Douglas Harding's "Headless Way" technique.
Harris refers to how this field may appear to "shimmer", or that one might notice vitreous floaters from within the fluid of the eye. The "shimmering" is perhaps easiest to observe if you really focus your intentionality on trying to detach your conscious experience of Seeing from the implicit spatial awareness of your eyes and face. This is difficult, but try to imagine the perceptual phenomena as a unified field, as though it were a screen, a pane of reflective glass, or a mirror.
You'll know it when it happens. "Tricking " our brain into this alternate perceptual orientation facilitates the transcendental shift that is the ultimate goal of the practice. Or at least that's what I think. Anyway, I hope this helps.
This is from the Waking Up app, from Sam Harris. I highly encourage people to subscribe to it. It is life-changing. I put these videos up for my son, who is out of the country. I also wish that Sam had an archive of the daily meditations, and this is the only way I know how to ensure that I can go back and listen to older ones. I hope he doesn't mind.
Harris refers to how this field may appear to "shimmer", or that one might notice vitreous floaters from within the fluid of the eye. The "shimmering" is perhaps easiest to observe if you really focus your intentionality on trying to detach your conscious experience of Seeing from the implicit spatial awareness of your eyes and face. This is difficult, but try to imagine the perceptual phenomena as a unified field, as though it were a screen, a pane of reflective glass, or a mirror.
You'll know it when it happens. "Tricking " our brain into this alternate perceptual orientation facilitates the transcendental shift that is the ultimate goal of the practice. Or at least that's what I think. Anyway, I hope this helps.
This is from the Waking Up app, from Sam Harris. I highly encourage people to subscribe to it. It is life-changing. I put these videos up for my son, who is out of the country. I also wish that Sam had an archive of the daily meditations, and this is the only way I know how to ensure that I can go back and listen to older ones. I hope he doesn't mind.
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