How to practice “In the seen will be merely what is seen” &quot;In the seen will be merely what is seen”
I’ve red this http://theeyeofdhamma.blogspot.com/2013/10/ditte-ditta-mattan-bhavissathi.html?m=1
I’m  still not sure how I should apply &amp; practice this in real life?
For an example, if I see some delicious food, instantly, craving naturally occurs and think “that looks yum”.
After that, with a tiny force, I think that, this is how my mind is trying to objectify the feeling and remind the example given on above post:
“An example given is the image (or shadow) falling on water when one looks into a pond. We cannot interact with this image by touching or smelling and it appears when we look into the water and disappears when we move away. If we try to touch it we can feel the water but not the image.”
I’m really confused how to put this in daily life. Really appreciate if anyone could guide me..
This topic is famously developed in Vajrayana's highest tantras such as Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
The point is to shift the focus of experience from the samsaric mind with its constant judgement of things in relation to ego and the values ego identifies with, e.g. &quot;is this useful to me or worthless&quot;, &quot;is this cool enough for me or too basic&quot;, &quot;will this make me dirty in any sense&quot;, &quot;is this spiritual or lowly material&quot;, &quot;is this democratic&quot;, &quot;is this stylish&quot; and so infinitely on -- and towards experiencing the authentic quality of things on their terms, as they are.
So instead of &quot;look at this beautiful sunset&quot; - you just look, you truly look and see it all, without bringing your preconceived ideas and simplistic concepts such as &quot;beautiful&quot;. Instead of judging a person as primitive or advanced (substitute any other category) you take them as a little mystery they are just like each of us.
You get the point, to see things as they are is to stop overgeneralizing our experience by limiting it to projection of what we know. It means to look with our eyes, not with our brains. It means to see the new and unknown, the unspoken, the inexpressible - instead of only seeing our own thoughts.
Samsara is a subjective realm made of our thinking. We feed and maintain it by dwelling on samsaric thought patterns, which can all be summarized as instances of generalization, stereotyping, and reification. We feed these by replaying them over and over in our thoughts. The practice of seeing things as they are is unmaking this cyclic feeding/sustenance and breaking through to the actual reality beyond our bubble.
When we do this we discover that reality has an extra dimension we never saw. Seeing this extra dimension requires allowing ourselves ambiguity of interpretation. Going beyond the stable ground of habitual interpretation allows us to walk that extra dimension. This is the freedom the Buddha has taught.