A Mindful Glimpse of Poetic Journeys

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He has an app called Mindful Glimpses, and he's a very popular teacher over on the Waking Up app run by my close friend and mentor Sam Harris.

I use your app Glimpses, and I love it, and I've read your books as well.

One of the concepts that you have helped me with is so much of the writing and thinking about this non-dual path involves kind of the negative.

But I find there's a positiveness, not in the sense of, you know, sunny, happy optimism, but there's a presence of something you're finding, not just an absence in your writing.

Could you say more about that? What is it that we can be looking for that isn't merely the absence of something?

I don't know, those listening may not quite get it. But if you kind of just as Matt was saying, you let your eyes relax forward and then you start to open your peripheral vision as if you're unhooking from the looker, even though you can let attention as another kind of awareness continue.

And as your awareness feels like it opens, your peripheral vision will open and then you can somehow continue to feel as if this awake awareness can open to the sides in which sound is coming and going.

And then curiously feel around and open up behind you to find an awareness that's already awake.

So you can kind of feel as if you're aware of the spacious awareness and then feel as if you're aware as the spacious awareness, even while your eyes are just looking forward.

And then feel as if the spacious awareness is also pervasive.

So it's equally above you, below you, in front of you, to the left, to the right, behind you, and then like an ocean and wave within you.

You know, I don't know, those listening may not quite get it. But if you kind of just as Matt was saying, you let your eyes relax forward and then you start to open your peripheral vision as if you're unhooking from the looker, even though you can let attention as another kind of awareness continue.