The 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. It 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. For this purpose one thing is like another; equally suitable and therefore equally useful.
* I do not understand that plant.
* I do not understand that Van Gogh print.
* I do not understand that cat.
* I do not understand those tiles.
* I do not understand that fan.
* I do not understand that blackboard.
* I do not understand that oven.
* I do not understand those curtains.
I do not understand anything I see in this room.
I do not understand anything I see through that window.
I do not understand anything I see.