You don’t have to do the transmutation, or transformation into mirror-like wisdom, you just continue to look at whatever it is that you are looking at. We start out by looking at a wall. It’s not that that wall is going to do it. The wall is the training ground, it’s how you train you mind to see clearly what is in front of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2LtXiH4n28