Intention and attention. the combination of name and form has infinite revelations and possibilities.
I like to say, find other than what you seek. Find what you seek works fine for an idealsitc trip to the grocery store. Not for communication and relating with others. It involves an open and delicate attention to the seeking process. I understand the seeking process and the finding process in a number of ways. That will be in another post. Somewhere in that process is a variety of intervening variables. I like this description of a “gaze” by (see link following) He writes; “we become the place of the gaze…this gazing from within awareness opens the multidimensionalness….the different dimensions of the field manifest within the gaze, within us. The gaze is both within us and beyond us. Within the gaze, there is neither simple inside nor simple outside. The gaze is place...a vast place beyond inside and outside. There are many forms of gazing. At times we gaze through the eyes of the mind, (heart channels), we can gaze through the entire body, and we can gaze through the heart essence, hridayam. We can gaze through touch, we can gaze through sound, and we gaze through sight. We can gaze into various phenomena…all directly…unmediated…we can gaze into sky, we can gaze into death, we can gaze in the pre-personal, gazing into soma, gazing into the elements, gazing into the dakini, the vortexual, the element of flesh, we gaze into psyche…the gaze itself is psyche, not mind. Gazing both leads to and is gnosis, jnana…direct perception.” Transmission: Journal of the Awareness Field Journal of the Washington Center for Consciousness Studies......http://transmissiononline.org/issue/the-awareness-of-awareness/article/gazing-as-dzogchen
allowing the gaze to just be, automatic, results in the soft gaze spoken of in many? Traditions.
The emphasis being more on the way you look at things, over the things or their impression. To let go for a bit of our usual, inherited, and/or learned ways of seeing. Perhaps to let go of our innate sensationalistic conditioning that reinforces the whole ego centric instinctual, reflexive, hormonal, neurological patterning.
Joan Sutherland, example of this objectification as feeling for, as contrasted with her characterization; feeling with. Which I would add to by some other processes such as feeling by, feeling of, feeling as etc.
allowing the gaze to just be, automatic, results in the soft gaze spoken of in many? Traditions.
The emphasis being more on the way you look at things, over the things or their impression. To let go for a bit of our usual, inherited, and/or learned ways of seeing. Perhaps to let go of our innate sensationalistic conditioning that reinforces the whole ego centric instinctual, reflexive, hormonal, neurological patterning.
Johanna Macy again, (experience and expression as a process,) also conveys the imbalance in this process that we are seeing now, as objectification of the earth. The imbalance being that the black box of the many intervening variables within the experience-expression paradigm slanted and biased to a more ego centric referencing favoring the objective, but then my vision of the ancient civilization, life on the planet, the flower of life dimension as the medium, not the message. That is the gaze.
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