Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life

I'm your host Corey Muscarra and in today's episode I'm going to introduce you to seeing meditation.

More to come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in with the sound of the bells. Okay, so seeing meditation, did you know that you?

So, seeing meditation. Did you know that you could do seeing meditation? Are you confused about what I'm even talking about? When I say seeing meditation, I am

referring to yes meditation on the the act of

seeing I guess we could say so you know when we typically think of meditation, I think we might think of the breath,

inhale, exhale, being aware of thoughts, being aware of emotions, sensations, and if we're doing a walking meditation we might be feeling the right

foot pressing the left foot pressing.

Then essentially these are all different ways of directing our attention intentionally and also connecting to awareness itself so that

we're working with the interface of our senses, of our awareness and our senses.

And so one of our senses that I think often gets overlooked in meditation is that of sight.

I think primarily because many meditations are done with the eyes closed that when we think of meditation it's like okay so we shut out

that sense or try and shut out other senses even like sound you know get as quiet

as possible or get the body as comfortable as possible so that there actually isn't as much

sensory stimulation.

And most of the meditations I've done in my life, especially starting out, were with the eyes closed. But when I was in Burma, I did play around with, quite a bit with open eye meditation so that I was bringing the same quality awareness to this sensory experience

of seeing itself.

So what does it mean to meditate on seeing,

to hold seeing itself in awareness?

Well, the best way I think I can describe it is imagine you're

at a movie theater let's say an I I'm Mac theater I'm Max I'm max theater let's say you're at an I'm Max, I Max, I Max, I Max Theater.

Let's say you're at an IMAX Theater,

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