Open eyed meditation, is a simple form of meditation that will give reward to initiates as well as the more experienced.
By keeping our eyes open, and placing ourselves in busy shopping centres, roads or motorways, we seek to short circuit our belief in the materialism of our western urban environment.
1. Find an area where the busy flows of human/vehicle traffic meet and run into one another.

2. Position yourself facing a meeting of the flows.

3. Relax you body, sit or stand upright in a way that is comfortable to you.

4. Slowly, breathe in through your nose, and out through your nose. Over time slow your breathing down.

5. Un-focus your eyes, become aware of your peripheral vision. Let the movement of the crowd become a blur of colours and shapes.

6. As you do this the right side of your brain will be trying to regain control, reading the people as they go past, according to the costumes they wear, acknowledge your attraction to this information, and then pass it to one side.

7. Your eye will try to separate and follow the movement of individuals in the crowd, don’t let it, you are not a hunter today.

8. Become aware of the crowd as a living system, moving in contrary directions.

9. Do not reflect upon what you are seeing, let your ego fade behind your field of vision. You are the crowd, the crowd is you.

10. Remember, from any perspective, the crowd has no centre, no destination, and many directions.

11. Outside of your field of vision, are individuals going about your business, within your field, they are one.