Very Easy Path to... you-know-what

I’ve been reading the His Holiness The D.L.'s book “Dzogchen, The Heart of Perfection,” -- a copy that dropped out of the Baltimore County Library system in 2001 -- and he writes:

"One method that is spoken in the Dzogchen tradition is to 'direct your mind into your eyes and direct your eyes toward space.' This is useful because our visual consciousness is so powerful. This doesn't mean you are looking at something in the outside world, but rather that you direct your gaze toward the space between you and external phenomena."

Now I've heard it described many times in Zen to put your awareness a few inches in front of your nose, or things similar, but I've never heard "direct your mind into your eyes and direct your eyes towards space.' Combining this technique with the thought-swatting blinks that I learned from watching HH the D.L. in action (posted previously*), I realized I had come upon a very powerful method for staying in no-thought.

*As I posted earlier but I’ll repeat here, I watched the Dalai Lama (I call him affectionately 'the Big D.L.) on the tube being interviewed, and noticed that he blinks about four times more than I do. So I started blinking every time he blinked, and could see that blinking interrupts the monkey- thoughts. So next time I sat down to center my eyes on an 'object' (if my eyes wander, my thoughts wander), I blinked every time a thought showed up - sort of a 'thought swatter.' It seems to work very well, and you can ‘blink’ even with your eyes shut! Yahoo! No- thought made even easier!
More as I read further into his book.