In our meditation practice, we employ visualization as a tool to help calm our minds and bring them to focus. If our visualization object (the mental image we create) is not clear, there’s no need to worry or try to make it so. Instead, we simply wait.

It’s like trying to see the moon on a cloudy, rainy night. No matter how hard you try, the cloudiness and rainfall will obscure your view of the moon. But you know that eventually, the rain will stop. So, you keep waiting by the window, and soon enough, the rain stops and the clouds move away. Suddenly, the moon is clear as crystal. You can even draw a circle as a visual representation of the full moon using drops of water and look at it while you wait for the rain to stop again.

In the same way, when we visualize an object in our center, like a sun, moon, star or sphere, we need not TRY in any way to make it clear, we do not need to TRY to make the thoughts stop, we just need to wait patiently, and everything will become clear by itself. Visualization is more about “feeling”, not so much about trying to see something. Feel it as if it is already there, even if you cannot see it clearly. Feel it as if it is a fact.