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Sensing with Soul (Part 1) - (The Mirrored Gates) 10 mentions

• that's not possible despite the uh sort of um teachings of bear attention that used to be quite common in the dharma
• a certain kind of helpful reductionism so even the idea of bear attention as a sort of dharma concept becomes a dharma
• qualities of presence wakefulness careful attention right these are central to what we mean by mindfulness
• presence wakefulness and careful attention they also just um sensing the soul
• modulate our kind of mindfulness or where we direct the attention or how we re how we basically respond that's part
• um one gear sort of passive mode of attention mindfulness my friends also includes an appropriate
• my friends also includes an appropriate attention um that's a translation of the
• interest in exploring and investigating and an attention to the dependent origination of what arises and what
• emphasize that that's that's what appropriate attention means or includes is this kind of awareness of the
• that is an important part that appropriate attention as it sometimes translated you only someone asikara is

Growing the Energy Body (Q & A) - (Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma) 10 mentions

• morning a little bit just that this way of paying attention becomes a really a really like fine just potentially a fine
• i'm maybe avoiding or not paying attention to because it's easier to follow another route yeah
• for me at this point it's just like i just pay attention it's just there right wait why only just because i've done it
• harmonize etc now i've got the choice in the balance of attention if we if we raise what can and i could go mostly
• one thing you said today caught my attention yeah like
• very secondary or even even fade out what you pay attention to will filter out of the experience and grow yeah so
• happiness and inspiration you can nail your attention to your nostril tips and and you don't blink for a micro second
• play with the relative weightings through the attention does make sense yes yes so answering
• hang-ups and clinging and you know just not paying attention so there's all kind we could list all kinds of conditions
• lot of openness between people when there's a lot of sensitivity attention again we could list these conditions

Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception - (Meditation on Emptiness) 10 mentions

• fade that's really putting your attention on it rather than say i've got a headache
• is nama rupa the fourth link he said perception uh intention vadina attention such as part of the fourth the fourth
• ago depends what's with the focus the focus another word for attention if there's clinging with attention it will
• focus another word for attention if there's clinging with attention it will get stronger
• get stronger if i can find a way of paying attention to something as richard was saying i can
• to something as richard was saying i can find a way of paying attention to something and actually relaxing the
• holy descendants doesn't mean it's so far doesn't mean not paying attention to it it's a it's a it's a way of uh
• i actually doing all i'm doing is paying attention plus letting go of a clean letting go of
• subtle we'll even talk about how attention has a kind of quality of clinging in it automatically it's like
• start making the mind giving it more energy more attention less distraction less gunk in the way and things do start

Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers) - (Meditation on Emptiness) 10 mentions

• and that's actually being much more open with the attention not focusing on one object
• object but actually opening the attention quite wide to the totality of experience
• more intimate with what we're paying attention to the breath or the matter or whatever
• if we when we put too much pressure on the mind to pay attention it actually has a tendency to slip off more it's
• aware of attention's interesting we can focus on something very one pointedly and that
• different ways we can play with the way that the attention is engaging with the object
• so sometimes we can have a one one point that we're paying attention to one spatial point here or here
• non-body experience i was trying to just pay attention here and it's like the body isn't involved
• maybe i'm ignoring something that needs attention maybe there's some emotion there or something that actually needs
• there or something that actually needs my attention and i'm suppressing it and repressing etc now that's a very that

Three Characteristics - Three Avenues to Freedom and Joy - (Meditation on Emptiness) 10 mentions

• you think about basic mindfulness or bare attention bringing that simplicity of awareness to experience
• underneath the story and the simplicity of attention the direct attention to experience actually through going
• with mindfulness and just with their attention just with a simple presence in the moment there is some there are some
• practices tonight the attention has a capacity a human attention has a capacity to focus itself
• the attention has a capacity a human attention has a capacity to focus itself and work quite microscopically
• fact and look at the microscopic change i can hone in the attention to something the attention also has a mode where it
• i can hone in the attention to something the attention also has a mode where it opens out and can actually be quite
• feels in the body pay attention to that and look at that with these lenses on see what happens
• tuning into impermanence just really keeping the attention with something noticing moment to moment there's change
• sensations too just sustain the attention on something and it's almost like mindfulness just naturally begins

The Image of Ethics (Part 2) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 10 mentions

• um this is actually uh forgotten and often then it's not given attention the question is forgotten
• the question is forgotten and it's not giving attention to and on a social level what you then get
• sense based on experience of having images and then paying attention to these images
• call it tuna sometimes we call it the balance of attention i'd like to introduce the practice of
• threeness okay and a balance of attention within threeness
• and can i play with the balance of attention the sort of relative waiting
• i g h g the relative weighting of my attention between the three
• situation 10 of my attention let's say with the imaginal figure
• so it's similar to the tuna's balance of attention exercise but now it's threeness
• situation if you like them playing with the balance of attention seeing how does it uh affect the sense of the situation

Soulmaking (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 10 mentions

• and one is uh is actually quite a thin avenue is this idea of bear attention which we said is a bit of a misnomer and
• practicing mindfulness when i'm practicing this bare attention this simple attention and i'm quote being
• practicing this bare attention this simple attention and i'm quote being with things as they are uh to misuse the
• so rather can we see this mode of bear attention or mode of simple mindfulness as one mode
• in the world every day if if the mind is not trained so we have bare attention as a sort of a degree a slight a slight
• there is still some self being fabricated that with bare attention there's still some uh definitely quite a
• of practices that actually fabricate a lot less than so-called their attention and deep emptiness practices deep
• avenue opens the door unlike the other two unlike the bear attention the unfabricating
• practice and and fantasy etc so the bear attention as a modicum of uh less fabric less fabrication the deeper
• that's really into um this kind of microscopic attention to appearances and

Practising with the Three Characteristics - (Meditation on Emptiness) 10 mentions

• bring mindfulness to experience and bear attention to the flow of our experience often sometimes to some degree there's a
• automatically with mindfulness and with their attention often sometimes not always and i'm sure
• but some degree of letting go from mindfulness and bear attention when we are in samadhi to whatever
• shut my eyes i'm just gonna do this one shut my eyes and i pay attention i see that everything's impermanent and i
• the with the um with the attention that's not the priority when you're
• buddhist circles that what we're trying to do is get so sharp with our attention that you see these subatomic particles
• lots of those areas that you don't usually pay much attention to and now we've all got single rooms here
• um even more subtle perhaps than that the intention to pay attention to something
• very very subtle the intention to to pay attention to an object uh certain intentions will reduce but
• very interested in experience and very giving a lot of attention to our experience and what we're actually doing

No Self, No World - (IMS Forest Refuge) 10 mentions

• meditation is that sometimes just through attention to the present moment the story our storyline of who we are
• that it's different at different times if you pay attention especially over decades if you pay attention it's quite
• if you pay attention especially over decades if you pay attention it's quite different over different times and even
• mindfulness so when we've stress that a lot it's like just paying attention throughout the day one of the gifts of
• path snipping off the future and then in this moment with the attention to the moment in the moment it's like it's a
• with the kind of sharp really alive attention in the moment really cutting off the past and
• meditation concepts concepts concepts ways of seeing so bear attention is a concept
• concept bear attention is interesting because it's a concept that
• any sense if we just pay attention to the sense of self in our life and our practice it
• what actually wants to start paying attention deliberate attention and see this process of the building and the

Sensing with Soul (Part 4) - (The Mirrored Gates) 10 mentions

• um pervaded by sensitivity by that kind of delicacy of attention that fills out that whole space and that whole openness
• looking and she's training her her attention on the vader keeping it lightly there and and
• unpleasant all of which is an intimacy and an intimacy of attention intimacy of feeling basically sometimes that word
• limiting supposed notion of bare attention supposedly bear attention so there was this there was this kind of
• focal point for our energies and our attention and our and our gestures and our coming together there
• a little bit of commentary kind of drawing out for our attention the elements that involve what's happening
• and also the food that was that she was kind of paying attention to there uh as the pro as the first object
• touch on and to open up and explore and draw attention to image um i talked on a couple of recent
• there will be times when if that's the primary attention it actually blocks and stifles and prevents a fullness and a
• um that can be possible here but just to draw attention to that briefly right now