Looked at, It Cannot Be Seen
The Text
视之不见，名曰夷；听之不闻，名曰希；搏之不得，名曰微。此三者不可致诘，故混而为一。其上不皦，其下不昧。绳绳兮不可名，复归于无物。是谓无状之状，无物之象。迎之不见其首，随之不见其后。执古之道，以御今之有。
Looked at but not seen — it is beyond form. Listened to but not heard — beyond sound. Grasped but not held — beyond touch. These three cannot be fathomed, so they blend into one. Above, it is not bright; below, not dark. Continuous, unnameable, it returns to nothing. This is the form of the formless, the image of nothing. Meet it ahead and there is no head; follow it and there is no back. Hold to the way of old and steer what exists now.
Reading it
A description written from the inside of attention: whatever is doing the looking cannot be seen by itself. The practical part is the last line — you steer the present with the oldest instruction, not the newest one.
从注意力的内部写出的描述：正在进行观看的那个东西，无法被它自己看见。实操在末句——用最老的指令驾御当下，不是最新的。
Spend ten minutes trying to observe the thing that is observing. Report honestly to yourself what you find.
花十分钟试图观察那个正在观察的东西。对自己如实报告所见。