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Hi, I was reading "Meditation, Transformation and Dream Yoga" by Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche and in it he says: It seems, according to Gyatrul Rinpoche, that you can look directly at an appearance and not grasp it. But what exactly does that mean? It "not grasping" something, realizing that it is an illusion, and therefore not giving it the usual conceptual analysis and proliferation of thoughts? Is grasping a purely knowledge based event? Is it possible to view an object or a perception without grasping at it? There seems to be some component of "not grasping" that is mind-based, namely, that you stop a part of your mind from becoming active. (the part which becomes conceptual analysis). Is Buddhism training in recognizing the part of the mind that grasps and stopping it? Or is grasping something deeper, like non-reification of objects or reality? I was reading THE ĀKĀŚAGARBHA SŪTRA, the part below: http://read.84000.co/browser/released/UT22084/066/UT22084-066-018.pdf Is grasping "ceasing to be attached"? I think it would be easy to say that grasping is all of the above instances. What I am interested in is mainly the idea that one can perceive something but not grasp it. How exactly do you do that? Is it through belief, realization, conviction, or by focusing on it through the third eye using clairvoyance? I was also reading that same text, that one must develop clairvoyance. Perhaps clairvoyance is that special way of seeing without grasping? Is it possible that a practitioner cannot practice not grasping, unless they have first developed the mudane psychic powers, as these aforequoted texts are revealing? Any perspectives on grasping out there? Thanks. TI