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Watching is a tense activity. You become narrowed. Alertness is a very broad consciousness. You are not narrowed; you are widely open. Watching is concentration. You concentrate – as if you want to hit a target with an arrow. Then you concentrate. Then you exclude everything from your vision; only the target, only the target remains in your eyes. You forget everything. Now everything has to be excluded and your whole consciousness has to become pinpointed. This is what watching is. Alertness is meditation. You are wide open, all doors open; not narrow, absolutely vulnerable. Everything is allowed.
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