Seeing boundarylessness
Boundlessness? Limitlessness? It feels like it’s not quite the same as infinity.
An idea / experience that comes up a lot if various traditions in something like “Your true nature is boundless, open, space.” Related: empty, formless.
While listening to some more Headless Way sessions, I stumbled across what feels like an “easy” and obvious way of accessing this feeling of boundarylessness. It’s a bit thinking and a bit experiencing. It’s basically taking the field of vision experiment and expanding it outwards.
- Notice something in your field of the vision.
- Look for the edges.
- Notice how you can tell it’s the edge because you can see what’s past the edge. You can see the “next” thing.
- Notice your field of vision.
- Look for the edge, the boundary.
- Apply some relaxed, low effort, to finding the edge.
- What do you actually experience?
- Not what you know. What you experience, before labelling it or judging it.
- Not what it means. Just what is is, just what is given.
- Not what others say. What you find when you check for yourself.
- What do you actually experience?
- If you think you can see the edge, what’s past it? What’s the “next” thing?
- Apply some relaxed, low effort, to finding the edge.
- Everything you can perceive appears in your field of perception.
- Can you see anything that’s not in your field of vision?
- Your feel of vision is boundless, open, space.
My initial thought was that I was looking for a good way to demonstrate this to others, help them see it too. But perhaps it’s just me finally “getting”, experientially, The Pointing Experiment.
Some Headless Way notes of mine: The Headless Way; Experiments in Having No Head; “The Headless Way” session for One Mindful Breath (which I continue to chicken out of running); The Headless Way: A Conversation.
Added 2024-09-02.