Attention with two arrows (Witnessing).
Witnessing is known as samyag darshan in Vedic science. This is a procedure in which you look both forth and yourself at the same time.
When we stare at a tree, a star, a mountain, or an owl, something leaves our eyes, travels to the item, and then returns to us.
- We draw attention what comes out of our eyes in order to contact the object of perception.
- According to Ayurveda, attention occurs when prana leaves the body and conveys the vibration of consciousness to the object.
- As a result, awareness plus prana, or movement, equals attentiveness.
- One of the arrows extends and makes contact with the thing.
- A second arrow of attention should go inward, toward the core of our heart, to observe the observer at the same time.
- When you're gazing at something outside, gaze at the looker; watch the watcher; observe the observer at the same time.
- When the observer is observed, the watcher vanishes. Witnessing is the act of just watching without being watched.
You acquire intimacy, or a relationship, with the object of perception as a result of that witnessing.
