What do you think this poem means?

Question

he isn't looking at anything
he isn't looking for something
he isn't looking
he is seeing

what

not something outside himself
not anything inside himself
but himself

himself how

not as some anyone
not as any someone

only as a noone(who is everyone)

Answer 1

It is about an overly deep introspection.

Answer 2

This poem describes the (should be) state of mind of a monk. This poem explains how an attained soul sees the life. This is essentially an Indian (Vedantic , Zen/ Buddhist) mediation state.

He isn’t looking at anything..
It means.. Het doesn’t have the ego, i.e. He doesn’t have the ego that he is the body that looks at things.

He isn't looking for something..
An attained soul never has caving for anything

he isn't looking he is seeing
He is the seer of anything that is happening. That is “Drusta Bhav” “Seer’s Angle of looking at things without getting involved in anything

not something outside himself
not anything inside himself
but himself

There is nothing outside Him. Nothing inside him. He is everywhere. Everything is he himself. Everything is the manifestation of that One.

not as some anyone
not as any someone


Same thing as I mentioned before. He doesn’t regard himself as someone. Or anyone. But everyone is he himself. The God. Everyone is the expression of That One.


This state of mind comes after deep meditation. Many people have had practically this experience. Read Life of Swami Vivekananda. He described one of his such experiences which lasted for many day. He could not really differentiate between the football, light post on the road or road it self. Everything to him appeared as one and same thing.

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Answer 3

First, it seems like he's not trying to see anything, he just is. Second, he's seing himself for who he truly is. Third, he's not important or special in any way, he's just plain normal (a nobody), just like everyone else.

I think the poet was trying to say that nobody is special unless they make themselves out to be, and if they did, they would only be fooling themselves. If you try to see what you want to see, you'll probably succeed. The person that this poem describes is viewing himself from a completely objective, unbiased standpoint.

Answer 4

Maybe it means that the guy in the poem, before he was looking for something, looking for answers to something. And now he's stopped looking, and by doing that he can finally see things clearly, see himself clearly, and for the first time, he can truly understand himself.

Answer 5

I will say what my Aunt would say to me. "It is all Greek to me." She is saying that it just as well be Greek for she doesn't understand it either and neither do I.

I am guessing that if he is seeing himself then he is either looking in a mirror or his reflection in that case he he is reflecting upon his self. He doesn't seem to think highly of himself. He either has a low opinion of himself or he isn't full of himself(humble).

He doesn't put himself above others, he blends in to the crowd.

Answer 6

Buddhism or maybe Transcendentalism- the all seeing eye kind of thing Emerson had going. Not sure. Interesting, though.

Answer 7

i think that it means that trying to see the world around him from a different point of view.

or he is seeing him self as a ordinary person.

Answer 8

He sees himself as a regular guy. He's just like everybody else.

Answer 9

I think it means looking at yourself as you look at the rest of the world, no individuality at all.

Answer 10

Means that the poet is confused and making us confused too.