LESSON 3 I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].

1. 1Apply this idea in the same way as the previous ones, without making distinctions of any kind. 2Whatever you see becomes a proper subject for applying the idea. 3Be sure that you do not question the suitability of anything for application of the idea. 4These are not exercises in judgment. 5Anything is suitable if you see it. 6Some of the things you see may have emotionally charged meaning for you. 7Try to lay such feelings aside, and merely use these things exactly as you would anything else.

2. 1The point of the exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now, and to realize how little you really understand about them. 2It is therefore essential that you keep a perfectly open mind, unham­pered by judgment, in selecting the things to which the idea for the day is to be applied. 3For this purpose one thing is like an­other; equally suitable and therefore equally useful.