See Your Way to Mindfulness by David Schiller

Author:David Schiller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2016-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”

—Pablo Picasso

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

—W. B. Yeats

Exercise 13

here’s looking at you

A dozen, a hundred, a thousand selfies later, do you really know what you look like? Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso created the original selfies in searching and painfully honest self-portraits. So did Zen masters like Hakuin, capturing the great intensity of a teacher in his bold inky brush. Put aside for a moment what your face expresses about your personality. Can you describe the shape of your eyes, the width of your nostrils, the height of your forehead or arc of your mouth? You’ve seen your face your whole life. Now, really look at it. Not at a photo, but sitting for a good long time in front of a mirror. When the self-consciousness comes, try not to let it get the better of you. This is not about vanity. It’s an act of exploration—of real seeing.

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