Look For What Looks
“When you look
with the ‘I,’
you dream.
When you look
for the ‘I,’
you awaken.”
Not much to add here. When I open my eyes in the morning and step out of bed, I may easily step right into another dreamworld, a world of automatic thinking and behaving based on habitual pattern. In the quote above, Mooji describes the possibility of awakening out of this secondary dreamworld by sending attention back upon the “I” who is seeing, feeling, hearing, tasting, smelling, thinking. At any moment, notice how you are looking with the “I” (looking from the perspective of me, my story, my likes, my dislikes, etc.) and then, for a moment, look instead for the “I” who looks. What/who do you find?
What do you see
when you look for
seeing?
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