Throughout many of these postings, I have made numerous references to our inherent capacity of “mindsight”. In descriptive terms, we might regard it as the light of our awareness, and the lens by which we direct our inner attention. It emanates from a quality of (open) awareness and (free) attention. It is highly sensitive, illuminated, refined, flexible, and reflective in nature. It’s light of both illuminating and penetrating quality. It is a vital energy that allows our presence to be “presence”- and to be part of a “flowing” and “fluid” process that reflects the truth or reality of what is seen and sensed.

Mindsight is spawned and sustained from our natural intelligence and wisdom. It is the seed of our intention to see the very nature and dynamic of our own being- the roots of our suffering and of our happiness… and to see deeply into our interconnectedness and “interbeing” with all that exits as part of a “fluid” and “flowing” universe.

As a reflective and illuminated lens of sensed reality, we begin to see clearly how our habits and conditioning- as well as our impulses for attachment with pleasure and avoidance of pain stimulate conditions for a life of perpetual turbulence. As we refine mindsight we may ultimately see how our states of mind can be the gateway to transforming our relationship to them. What we think we are can be very different from the way we see how we are…

To see behind the image and projection of an ego constructed “self” and conceptual “identity”, there is our true nature… the raw, naked, and dynamic essence of a human being… warm, compassionate, gentle, and inherently “good”.

Mindsight gives us the capacity to observe the expansiveness of our own awareness while allowing us to focus in our attention to the subtlest of details either within our outside the mind-body experience. When stable and concentrated, its penetrating light/energy can “cut” through the impulses and reactionary forces that seek to bind our “free attention”.

With meditative practice, the tool of mindsight becomes a highly refined and precision instrument for seeing the workings of our mind- the patterns, reactionary impulses, and their correlative feeling and bodily states. Using mindsight, we can transcend the temporal state of being. It is in this light of sensing where we may even merge with the timelessness of our awareness itself. The observing and sensing self may experience a revelation- an illuminated way into more harmonious and balanced states of wellbeing and fulfillment.

Seeing clearly into the subtleties and fullness of our minds at work, we may come to know the nature of our own humanity- the dynamic of our own humanity- as well the limits and the expansiveness of our minds and mind states. Only that which is clearly seen can be truly transformed. The clear sanity of our being is brought to light within the reflective, sensitive, and flexible lens of mindsight. All that is scattered and noisy now may become ordered, quiet, and stable as it is seen through an orientation of sensing rather than thinking. The reactive energy that once routinely carried us away is now transmuted into a concentrated “force” which sustains and strengthens our power of observation, as well as our capacity for transformation. Embrace the “light” of your awareness and let mindsight help you see who, how, and what you are…

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