Seeing the Seeing

Sit at a window or on the verandah, eyes open. Choose any ordinary object to rest the eyes on, a tulsi plant, a lamp on the wall, the pattern on a curtain. Look at it without naming it. Then, slowly, notice that there are two things happening, the object being seen, and the seeing itself. Most of the day, only the object gets attention. Today, turn awareness 180 degrees toward the seeing. The object is still there. But what you are with now is the simple act of looking, alive, behind the eyes.