Excellent teaching! Many many times, inside, but usually outside, I’d hear others coming, step off a little ways, not having to really seek very good camouflage, but just stay motionless, clear my head, and go into sort of a gazing without focusing attention on the approaching others. I have a hard time recalling any incident where the others, being so into their own heads and where they are going, that they ever saw me or even sensed me.
gazing without focusing has safely carried me through an encounter with a bear at 5 paces. My partner was only about a hundred and twenty five yards away, his safety was my big concern. I told myself I would not shoot in his direction (grazing fire) no matter what. Guess where the bear appeared. Strangely enough he was grumbling about my partner as he walked by, oblivious to me sitting on the ground like a rock.