What Do You See?

I believe I have talked about the practice in the title of this entry before - stemming from a teaching Thích Nhất Hạnh once gave, as relayed in a talk I heard with Roshi Joan Halifax - but today I’m thinking about it in a very particular context.

The story goes that Thầy picked up a blank piece of paper, waved it a bit, and asked the students, “What do…