For eons — for millions of years — we looked in order to gain or acquire something. We looked primitively, through (and “as”) a screen of separation. For the most part, we did not look simply and holistically, beyond motives and desires. Desires often tend to make one limited; between a “you” and “what you want” exists a limited space (of deficiency). This limited deficiency involves a “perceiver” of limitation, and a limitation involving a space between what is and what is wanted.
Simple looking (without technique) may break free of the aforementioned limitation. Such “looking” need not involve separation, such as between the “perceiver” and the perceived. Observing without a motive and without separation may be a pristine awareness that transcends mere mechanical effort and striving. An isolated, limited ego cannot do it, unfortunately. Most people don’t care about this.
My Blog primarily consists of close-up nature photos (that I've taken locally) combined with original holistic-truth oriented prose and/or poetry involving mindfulness/awareness. I love nature and I love understanding the whole (not merely the parts and the details). I'm a retired teacher of the multiply handicapped.
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I had to reread this in my early morning hours. Brain barely registers in the evening but you have it quite well expressed. It’s taken years to fully understand this concept of no separation and desire. Just being with what is and enjoying it. The butterfly is exquisite and isn’t even aware of that itself.
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Wow amazing capture, so beautiful! Love the color blue!
I had to reread this in my early morning hours. Brain barely registers in the evening but you have it quite well expressed. It’s taken years to fully understand this concept of no separation and desire. Just being with what is and enjoying it. The butterfly is exquisite and isn’t even aware of that itself.