If attending to things in themselves we get immersed in the details.
Meaning?
By things I mean each experience of the objects, sights, sounds, thoughts, feelings, etc. of the outer and inner worlds. By details I mean experiencing these as separate from their source and disconnected from each other.
Meaning?
We lose context, the big picture is missing. We're shut out from experiencing the big picture that's built-into every manifest detail.
Meaning?
We forget that details in themselves are based on a nothingness, an all-engulfing emptiness through which Everything expresses Itself.
Quite a leap, very philosophical.
It certainly is, so long as we're stuck to the details.