10d • General discussion
Karuṇā Practice: The Compassionate Gaze
All week we’ve been been talking about Karuna, the key of compassion. But there is another key part of this. nd that’s drishti, the term yogis use in asana and meditation. It means Focus.
Beginning meditators are all over the place because their eyes are. Rapid eye movement = rapid thoughts. If we practice at controlling our gaze, the thoughts will naturally still. Until they act up again, like little kids, and you have to firmly but gently say, “stop.”
But it’s not just focus. It’s HOW we focus. The quality we bring to that attention.
Think of the way you look at something. Is it with hardness and resentment? Or softness, and kindness? Think about how your eyes feel in those moments. How your body feels.
Practicing with a compassionate gaze unlocks a threshold that just won’t open with hardness or force. You can close your eyes and focus on a spot right there in your mind’s eye. And you can be gentle, breathing in and out with compassion and kindness for yourself—and the process—as that spot opens.
Let’s practice now.
Close your eyes. Find a small spot in the darkness. Maybe it’s white and glowing. Maybe it’s barely noticeable. Keep looking and breathing into the spot. Maybe it moves, maybe it becomes a sphere, or an opening in the darkness. Maybe it grows.
Observe without trying to change it. Feel into your heart. Breathe into it. Let your heart swell with compassion and kindness without losing this gaze. Allow your eyes to soften and feel that gentleness.
If thoughts enter, notice if what you see changes — if thoughts have become images and story lines. And then come back to your compassionate gaze.
Stay here for at least 5 minutes. And then write about the feeling.
What did you notice in your eyes? Your face? What about your heart rate, the quality of your breath.
And then write about your thoughts and emotions, your judgments, your questions.
Write for at least 5 minutes free-flowing down the page.
During the week pay attention to how you look at objects, people, situations.
Can you look with a compassionate gaze?
Can you let your eyes rest there for a while even when it feels a little uncomfortable and your eyes want to go back to their searching?
What does a compassionate gaze actually feel like?
Bring Drishti in your meditation and reiki self care. Let me know what you find!
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