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2013-03-06

Attention excludes nothing

Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing. It seems to me that most of us are not aware, not only of what we are talking about but of our environment, the colours around us, the people, the shape of the trees, the ...

2012-11-19

Ideals help us to postpone

To understand something, I must give it full attention, and an ideal is merely a distraction which prevents my giving that feeling or that quality full attention at a given time. If I am fully aware, if I give my full attention to the quality I call greed without the distraction of an ideal, then am...

2012-08-14

No border, no frontier, no limit

What is important is the state of full attention in which there is no border, no frontier, no limit. When there is that attention which is not induced in any way, then you will see that it is the limitless. But it cannot be captured by the mind, nor can the path of time lead you to it. Seeing all this ...

2011-06-14

There Is No Place at Which to Arrive

Can humility be practiced? Surely, to be conscious that you are humble is not to be humble. You want to know that you have arrived. This indicates, does it not, that you are listening in order to achieve a particular state, a place where you will never be disturbed, where you will find everlasting happiness, ...

2011-06-13

Elimination of Fear Is the Beginning of Attention

How is the state of attention to be brought about? It cannot be cultivated through persuasion, comparison, reward, or punishment, all of which are forms of coercion. The elimination of fear is the beginning of attention. Fear must exist as long as there is an urge to be or to become, which is the pursuit ...

2011-06-12

Complete Attention

What do we mean by attention? Is there attention when I am forcing my mind to attend? When I say to myself, "I must pay attention, I must control my mind and push aside all other thoughts," would you call that attention? Surely that is not attention. What happens when the mind forces itself to pay attention? ...

2011-06-11

Attention Is Limitless, Without Frontiers

In the cultivation of the mind, our emphasis should not be on concentration, but on attention. Concentration is a process of forcing the mind to narrow down to a point, whereas attention is without frontiers. In that process the mind is always limited by a frontier or boundary, but when our concern is ...

2011-06-10

An Attention That Is Not Exclusive

I think there is a difference between the attention that is given to an object and attention without object. We can concentrate on a particular idea, belief, object which is an exclusive process; and there is also an attention, an awareness, which is not exclusive. Similarly, there is a discontent which ...