Most 'mindfulness' is passive. This Toltec technique is an active hack: flood your sensory input with peripheral vision to overload the ego-structure's ability to generate noise. It's not watching thought; it's making it impossible for thought to arise.
The mind's biggest trap is turning Direct Realization into a project. When you experience the 'falling' into no-space, the ego asks, 'Am I doing it right?'. This is not a question to be answered, but a pattern to be dropped. This is the deconstruction of the 'doer'.
Most are trapped on a rollercoaster of thoughts and emotions, a broken autopilot they mistake for themselves. This teaching provides the engineering to shift from a 'somebody' lost in the noise to the 'something' that witnesses it all. This is the first step to Direct Realization.
Positive thinking is a useful tool, but it's not the goal. It's a stepping stone from the heaviness of Tamas to the liveliness of Rajas. The final destination is Sattva: the quiet mind. This is the engineering of Direct Realization, not mere self-improvement.
The modern mind's addiction to analysis is a trap. By slicing reality into infinite pieces, we miss the whole. Rohan explains why this intellectual 'progress' is a regression and how the Direct Path bypasses this ego-structure to reveal what is already here.
Common advice tells you to manage pressure. This is a system retrain. The instinct to recoil from pain actually traps it. Learn to rewrite this primal code, stay open, and discover that what you're running from is imaginary. This is the engineering of not-doing.
Your mind isn't one voice; it's a committee of six characters led by a tyrannical Judge. This Toltec engineering method shows how to dismantle the Judge-Victim dynamic, not by fighting it, but by becoming the silent Witness. This is the direct path to ending the Mitoté.