Perhaps “transcending” for a sense-generic version of “staring”?
I had to meditate for a while on what “staring” even is, as it means two completely opposite things depending on where our focus lays. So for the stuck, relaxed kind of “staring”, physically we’re trained on a single point in space, but mentally our attention is so focused elsewhere we are no longer processing sensory data from our eyes. We can do that with our hearing, where we’re tuning out our surroundings. Our brains do it automatically with touch, smell, and taste, where it’ll stop processing the sensory signals if it’s receiving the same thing over and over and over again and will only alert you if there’s been a change. So stuck, relaxed attention seems to be more transcending of a sense by completely removing one’s attention from it.
Perhaps “transcending” for a sense-generic version of “staring”?
I had to meditate for a while on what “staring” even is, as it means two completely opposite things depending on where our focus lays. So for the stuck, relaxed kind of “staring”, physically we’re trained on a single point in space, but mentally our attention is so focused elsewhere we are no longer processing sensory data from our eyes. We can do that with our hearing, where we’re tuning out our surroundings. Our brains do it automatically with touch, smell, and taste, where it’ll stop processing the sensory signals if it’s receiving the same thing over and over and over again and will only alert you if there’s been a change. So stuck, relaxed attention seems to be more transcending of a sense by completely removing one’s attention from it.