The Lion's Gaze is a specific meditation view used in Dzogchen practice. It's explained through a metaphor: when you throw a stick to a dog, the dog chases after the stick. But when you throw a stick to a lion, the lion doesn't chase the stick Instead,the lion looks to where the source of the stick came from and chases after the source.

In meditation, this means orienting awareness back to the totality of awareness itself. One looks   at the source from which everything arises: the unbounded wholeness of awareness. One is not caught up in particular phenomena or experiences.  

This view has certain characteristics: 

• The view must be vast and panoramic, not narrow or "particularised" (particularisation is singling out individual objects/events from the totality of awareness)

• It requires looking at the "unbounded wholeness of awareness"

• One holds this view moment-by-moment undistractedly

• It's described as "the view is the meditation"

Traditionally, it is emphasized that one should never take the Lion's Gaze view before having established the natural state first, because it requires automatic emptiness as a foundation. 

The risk is that without these foundational skills, the Lion´s view is a mere conceptualisation and will make progress even harder.