Zero to 1: The Seen, The Seer, and The...
5 INSIGHTS
I.
We look out and SEE a world of objects, chairs, trees, other people, and we assume that this is what the world is made of.
We then place ourselves among these objects as another thing in a world of things.
II.
Before long, cracks appear in this solid world.
We notice how two people can witness the same moment yet live entirely different experiences. How our mood colors a sunset, how new information can change and reshape memories, and the role of meaning.
The 'Seen' isn’t as fixed as we previously thought; it is relational, and we begin to see the role of the 'Seer.'
III.
Turning our attention back on the Seer opens a new doorway. It leads to the realization that there is something that transcends and unites the ‘Seer’ and the ‘Seen’.
IV.
What is it that transcends the ‘Seer’ and the ‘Seen’?
It’s the ‘Seeing.’
The ‘Seeing’ is that pure awareness that is aware of the subject, object, and experience that is unfolding.
V.
This awareness, this Seeing, is what connects all duality into a single non-duality.
3 Quotes
I.
"Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!"
Rumi
II.
The one who looks is the one who is looking is the one who is seen."
Douglas Harding
III.
"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love."
Meister Eckhart
1 Question
What is Consciousness?