The Seer

“When your eye is single, your whole body shall
be full of light, having no place dark.” ~ Jesus

How many eyes are you looking out of? Of course other people see two when they look at you, and you see two in the mirror. But how many eyes do you see from your own point of view? In this experiment I am asking you to take another completely fresh look at yourself. Perhaps you have been overlooking something both obvious and wonderful.

My experience is that I am looking out of one eye. In fact, it’s not even an eye — it’s an edgeless, undivided space, a frameless, open window. From this clear window I can at this moment see my desk and computer, and beyond these things my garden. The view out from this edgeless window is of course unique to each person, and always changing. But how could the view in — into this frameless window — be different, or change? There is nothing here to see differently, nothing here to change.

To bring your attention to this clear window, this single eye , hold your hands out in front of you as if they were a pair of glasses you are going to put on. If you wear glasses you can take them off and hold them out instead.

You now have two holes.

Then slowly bring them towards you and put them on.

What happens to the dividing line between the two holes when you put the ‘glasses’ on? Doesn’t it disappear, leaving one undivided, edgeless space you are looking out of?.

Observe the edge of your field of vision. Notice that you can’t look directly at it. Is there a definite edge there, a clear line, or does it fade off?. Into what? Into the void? Into your single, edgeless eye?

This eye goes on and on forever, in every direction. All things are within it.

You can notice your single eye anywhere, anytime. Discover how relaxing it is to be edgeless. Here in this spacious clarity there is no tension at all. What a fantastic resource we have been overlooking.

~ From: Seeing Who You Really Are — A Modern Guide to Your True Identity by Richard Lang.