Search results for: "Scatter vision"

  1. Taming the Elephant
     … There’s something that hunters call “scatter vision.” You need it when you’re hunting for mushrooms in the forest: the ability to be present to the whole range of your vision without focusing too much attention on any one spot, putting too much emphasis on any one spot, so that wherever the mushrooms may be—you have no idea where they’re going … 
  2. Meditation as a Skill
     … They want to keep their eyes out for any signs of animals, so they have to develop what’s called scatter vision, where you’re fully intent on being aware of your entire visual range. You’re not focused on any one point to the exclusion of others. You’re intent on the whole range. This is the quality of concentration you want to … 
  3. The Buddha’s Map
     … If you’re searching for something in the forest, trackers advise you to develop what they call “scatter vision,” where you try to take in the whole visual field all at once. At the same time, though, there’ll be little clues that you’re looking for. If you’re looking for mushrooms, there are certain things you look for. Whatever the plant you … 
  4. All Eye
     … They have to develop what’s called scatter vision—where you’re fully present in the present moment, and you’re aware of your whole range of vision. That takes a lot of concentration. Any thoughts coming up that would pull you away from that expanded state have to be dropped. You’re not at any one point in space, but you are at … 
  5. The Breathing Game
     … What you have to develop is the mental version that trackers and wilderness instructors call “scatter vision.” As you go through the forest, you want to have your vision as broad as possible to notice even the slightest little things on the periphery of your vision. We try to do the same with the breath. Have a sense of the energy all around the … 
  6. More than Mindfulness
     … The dispersing is like those hunters who go through the forest with what’s called scatter vision. Instead of being focused on one point, they try to give equal weight to their entire visual field. Even though there may be one point of their vision that’s more prominent than the others, their attention is diffused, it’s not focused in. It doesn’t … 
  7. Issues of Control
     … They have to have what they call scatter vision, where they’re aware of the entire range of their visual field. It’s an intense focus, but broad. That’s precisely the kind of focus that feels good inside as you meditate. As you provide a focus that feels good, you’re taking things that are inconstant and stressful, and you’re turning them … 
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