Bates: How to not need glasses (video)

Bates Method; Nathan Oxenfeld (integraleyesight.com); Ananda, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Certified Bates Method Teacher Nathan Oxenfeld guides us through a simple daily vision improvement routine. All of the practices shown in this video are meant to be performed without wearing any glasses or contacts.

Give Up Your Glasses for Good (Oxenfeld)

Most of the practices mentioned have their own instructional videos: Search for "Bates Method 101" on YouTube, or visit integraleyesight.com/batesmethod101.

Click here to get a copy of Nathan Oxenfeld's book Give Up Your Glasses for Good: Holistic Eye Care for the 21st Century, which contains step-by-step instructions for all the practices in this video and more.

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Eyes: How to see without glasses (Dec. 12)

Ananda (Dharma Meditation Initiative), Wisdom Quarterly; Carlos Moreno (centeredvision.com)

How It Works

A meditation is key to relaxing the eyes.

How can I have excellent vision without resorting to glasses, contact, or surgery? There's a way called the Bates Method. But understanding the Bates Method is not the same as experiencing the Bates Method.

Some listeners who try "palming," as described in this Wise Traditions podcast interview, experience at least one of the benefits of relaxation described, namely, relief in their eyes and body. Practitioner Carlos Moreno of CenteredVision.com will guide and give everyone an experience so they can get rid of the need to wear glasses, FREE.

Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D. (drnorthrup.com), recommends the tried and true Bates Method.

• RSVP: Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, 7:00 PM
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Perception

Much of Buddhist philosophy depends on perception. We have the same world in front of us -- replete with dukkha ("unsatisfactoriness"), radical impermanence, and no-self (impersonality). However, we do not all attain enlightenment by directly seeing the Four Noble Truths.

Seeing these truths would lead to the breakthrough in insight resulting in enlightenment, nirvana, and complete freedom from all suffering.

How we see things is dependent not only on them but on us. Reality is just as it is. Yet, few see it. The problem is partly in the looking, partly in the looker, and somewhat in the objects being observed.

• Things need to be observed mindfully (without thinking or judging, but simply observing) dispassionately, and with sustained attention.
• The looker's virtue (ethics, sila, morality) -- not necessarily one's past, but one's present state of mind -- needs to be cleansed.
• The most efficacious thing to observe is perhaps the breath, but there are also other beneficial objects (such as the elements, body parts, kasinas, and various contemplative objects such as the Dharma, Buddha, Sangha, devas, or even in some cases death).

How could this be? People awake (and dogs asleep) are sunk in delusion (ensnared by lust and trapped by anger/fear). And these objects and this way of looking has the ability to jar one awake. Here are two examples of the problem ordinary living beings face.

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