These instructions seem to appeal to the will. How can there be a will
when "There is no question of somebody who is acting or observing?"
I have often wondered about this.
When you say, for example, "forget the external cause and be only attention", it is like an invitation to the personality to give place to that what is beyond it.
When you say, "be only attention", such words act as an echo of our formless being. They are intended to orientate the look within and to deconstruct the habit of taking ourselves for somebody who is attentive. If you look for this somebody, you will never find it. So the result of this inquiry is the dismantling of the projected I-images and the awakening of that what is not an image: you as the primary objectless I.
When you pronounce I (and not I am this or that), it is a direct reference to what you are. But the mind maintains a tendency to fix the perception and to transform this formless I into an object. It is a great art to stay at the level of a non-formulated I. Like a funambulist balancing on a tightrope.
You can have a forefeeling of this way of being by observing the breathing of the body. If the observation is free from any control and intention, you will see that the body takes charge of itself, breathes at its own rhythm, and appears as an object emerging in your observation. There is no question of somebody who is observing, but there is the direct perception of an object (the body) appearing in a non limited space. If you don't transform this space into a new object of observation, there is unity. The space and you are one. And the breathing body is in you.
You can have the same experience when you listen to inspiring poetry, the words and the music of the words cannot be grasped by the mind, but awake the timeless dimension of your being.
In such a way, it is possible to use personal formulations ("you listen") as a pedagogic tool for stimulating the awareness of the impersonal background ("the listening and you are one").
From the Spiramed Internet Forum , May 27, 1997