10-17-2012, 12:00 AM
glance left wrote:glance- you said...
"I remember Carol Tiggs, at a seminar once, saying we have to walk around looking at things as if we are on mars. Point being, cultivating that state of perception which perceives the inherent weirdness of things...which makes room for a sense of awe...not from an ideologic standpoint...but from an experienctial one...one which is in awe because of the dawning realization that we really don't know what we are perceiving...or cannot really categorize it..it's too awesome!"
One of the more effective not-doings is looking at a printed page (or an electronic page) of text. Focus on a single space between words. Then visually attach it to another one, and another, and another... until you can see an entire page of spaces! Shift back to the text and do it again. Then look around and you will see all the spaces that dominate perception. With practice it becomes easy to shift away from the so-called physical view!
DG
"I remember Carol Tiggs, at a seminar once, saying we have to walk around looking at things as if we are on mars. Point being, cultivating that state of perception which perceives the inherent weirdness of things...which makes room for a sense of awe...not from an ideologic standpoint...but from an experienctial one...one which is in awe because of the dawning realization that we really don't know what we are perceiving...or cannot really categorize it..it's too awesome!"
One of the more effective not-doings is looking at a printed page (or an electronic page) of text. Focus on a single space between words. Then visually attach it to another one, and another, and another... until you can see an entire page of spaces! Shift back to the text and do it again. Then look around and you will see all the spaces that dominate perception. With practice it becomes easy to shift away from the so-called physical view!
DG