We can be -- and often are -- sound asleep going through the motions of life with our eyes wide open. To be able to see -- to be aware of -- what our mind is actually looking at, experiencing, and responding to... is the first step in the process of awakening; it not only strengthens our wish to attend to the present moment, but to remember that any time our mind is unattended... it slumbers in fitful dreams, from which it cannot awaken itself.
