When you squint hard, you’ll be able, for a short time anyway, to focus on a sight, one that may be at a distance. Notice that you’ll feel the sense of separation between you, the apparent seer, and the squinted at object. This is the gross level.

Suppose someone tells you to relax and to sink back into open, panoramic seeing. At this subtle level, you experience a dreamlike composition in which there’s a complete allowing. Seeing flows or floats while there remains a lovely wakefulness.

And what is this wakefulness? That’s you! Sink back naturally into being the gentle, spontaneous knowing that knows this relaxed, panoramic seeing. This is the “level” that’s beyond both the gross and the subtle. In fact, it’s no level at all.

Abide naturally as yourself, as this wide open wakefulness, as the nameless, knowing presence that you essentially are.