11-25-2010, 12:00 AM
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Curious as to if anyone uses gazing to improve their Dreaming.
I love it as it's assisted me a great deal. I kind of stumbled along for years until I got some help in Dreaming from TOF's. (The Old Farts.)
Some dialogue from Dreaming:
"...In your normal human condition, you consider yourself a subject with awareness of an object, whether it’s you looking at me sitting over here, or you looking at an emotion that you are feeling, or a thought you are having, as long as you can say “I feel this” or “I see this” or “I do this” then this is subject/object. So this separation between subject (yourself) and object (other) is the source of all of your confusion, struggle, and difficulty in life. So you hear all your teachers, including “X”, suggesting, encouraging you to recognize unification, or being one with, not separate from, the Universe. So no subject/object.
It’s not a matter of it being objective to begin with and later subjective. There is no subject/object at all.
When you practice gazing, you begin with the first level. And then, when you get to a certain level of attentive capacity, then you practice a bit more advanced, which allows you to experience your world of experience beyond just the body. But there still is some one experiencing that. So at that point you’re still experiencing subject/object. The third level of gazing is then just empty gazing. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t any gazing any more. It means that there is no ‘you’ gazing. There is no subject. There is just an experience of gazing, and it is, if anything, more vivid and more real and more vibrant and full of awareness than any kind of subject/object awareness that you have ever had. And yet, strangely, there is no one to claim the experience. It’s just being experienced."
What's been your experience with gazing?
SHM
Curious as to if anyone uses gazing to improve their Dreaming.
I love it as it's assisted me a great deal. I kind of stumbled along for years until I got some help in Dreaming from TOF's. (The Old Farts.)
Some dialogue from Dreaming:
"...In your normal human condition, you consider yourself a subject with awareness of an object, whether it’s you looking at me sitting over here, or you looking at an emotion that you are feeling, or a thought you are having, as long as you can say “I feel this” or “I see this” or “I do this” then this is subject/object. So this separation between subject (yourself) and object (other) is the source of all of your confusion, struggle, and difficulty in life. So you hear all your teachers, including “X”, suggesting, encouraging you to recognize unification, or being one with, not separate from, the Universe. So no subject/object.
It’s not a matter of it being objective to begin with and later subjective. There is no subject/object at all.
When you practice gazing, you begin with the first level. And then, when you get to a certain level of attentive capacity, then you practice a bit more advanced, which allows you to experience your world of experience beyond just the body. But there still is some one experiencing that. So at that point you’re still experiencing subject/object. The third level of gazing is then just empty gazing. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t any gazing any more. It means that there is no ‘you’ gazing. There is no subject. There is just an experience of gazing, and it is, if anything, more vivid and more real and more vibrant and full of awareness than any kind of subject/object awareness that you have ever had. And yet, strangely, there is no one to claim the experience. It’s just being experienced."
What's been your experience with gazing?
SHM