I was reminded while reading the book, What is Your Dangerous Idea?, that we are consciously aware of only 10 percent of what happens in our mind (brain)? Even our thoughts, feelings and behaviour operate largely without conscious recognition, says Professor Banaji, in his article, The Limits of Introspection.

Very seldom are we confronted by direct evidence of the inaccuracies of our perceptions. Why? It is outside our conscious awareness. Then I considered that improving vision is really about increasing perceptual awareness, becoming more conscious of consciousness itself.

The difficulty is that our logical mind compartementalizes the different parts of our lives. I work now. The consciousness part of my life is for later when I am finished. So much of our daily seeing and living is like being on automatic pilot, where we take the easy way out because we are too busy.

Is it possible that every thing we do in our daily routine could be awareness of consciousness itself? In the film How to Cook Your Life, Zen Master Edward Espe Brown shows how food preparation and consumption can be a practice of consciousness iteself.

Today, I am paying attention to my robotic programmed behaviour. I use my eyes to be more aware of my being conscious.