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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 5) - (The Mirrored Gates) 9 mentions

• we went through that whole list um attention to or noticing that node can can either suddenly or gradually
• was kind of checking uh or paying attention to this kind of beautiful feeling of of nakedness metaphorically
• um uh was paying attention kind of at the same time to this sense that i had and
• same time to this sense that i had and then in the paying attention it became imaginal it took that kind of
• because we didn't trust it and because we didn't pay attention and relate to it in the right way and we
• in a different way with much more attention and respect and and all that granted the possibility that it may have
• of balance of awareness within that with the attention to the fantasy and all the elements involved in that and to the
• of my dials of attention on the energy body alongside attention on the the the soul
• dials of attention on the energy body alongside attention on the the the soul resonance of the fantasy itself you know

Creative Samadhi - (November Solitary) 9 mentions

• in front of my nose and seems to be demanding my attention because i'm suffering over it actually just have
• and within that you can make the attention very small very small at the tip very small one point
• this in-breath can the attention be really alive really alive and bright this is the only one
• beginning the thing that i'm paying attention to is this whole body now i mean something a little bit
• bigger than the physical body so what we're paying attention to now is a field of there's a field of awareness and
• energetically in the whole space so here we're paying attention to the whole space and this feeling of if you
• of sounds too for instance and the attention is very wide like bigger than the building out there really wide
• the building out there really wide attention um centered in the body centered here
• come arise and be that's what one is doing in this wider field of attention and what will happen is eventually

Instructions on Mindfulness of Mind States - (November Solitary) 9 mentions

• the mind state and so paying attention noticing what kind of thoughts i have is also a clue
• and yeah i'm mindful of it i'm mindful of it i'm paying attention to it and it seems to be getting worse or just
• so it's almost like as i'm paying attention i want to get the sense just gently is is the way that i'm with this
• more often than not what they really need is a very delicate attention it's almost like the attention itself is
• need is a very delicate attention it's almost like the attention itself is is very delicate to the sadness or to
• the anger and that very delicacy of attention is extremely helpful it untangling something unpicking something
• simplest strand and somehow paying attention to that simple strand it simplifies everything it actually
• and as always in meditation the attention to the subtle is is really helpful really helpful because it's not
• subtle and attention to that subtlety is is very very fruitful can be

Emotional Healing (Part Two) - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 9 mentions

• emotion or environment our attention kind of gets sucked in there like like a magnet gets sucked
• into what's difficult tends to our attention not always but oftentimes tends to
• turns out that tension or attention is actually part of the problem
• the problem that our very attention to a difficulty is actually part of the
• and in a wholesome way in a wholesome way so learning not to pay attention to this even though it's jabbering away and
• this even though it's jabbering away and demanding attention just learning to look the other way
• mindfulness he makes that distinction see if you can pay attention if you can be mindful in a way
• again it's not just about turning the attention to what's difficult that could only ever be one half of it
• in subtle ways just in the process of being mindful of giving attention if there's just enough wrapped up in the

Second Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation - (Samatha Meditation) 9 mentions

• we can also as i've been saying energize the attention to really inject that energy that sensitivity into the
• energy that sensitivity into the attention energize the body and energize the attention
• attention energize the body and energize the attention we can also calm the body long breath to
• and we can also of course calm the attention just by returning over and over to the breath to the body keeping
• so energizing calming happens via the body and by the attention and we can play with this we play with it
• breath and the body and working with the breath and working with the attention in in the body of the breath
• if we're to slack perhaps this energizing the attention drawing really close really intimate and really
• keeps us off so that this thing festers and the attention instead of helping is actually festering this thing
• body in the practice can we just gently encourage the awareness the attention to stay there to settle there to kind of

The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) - (Practising the Jhānas) 9 mentions

• less conceptual sort of uh involvement and that mindfulness or bear attention reveals the unfabricated even if one
• um what is i certainly don't mean what is revealed by bear attention i certainly don't mean what is there
• just things as they are as as seen or as sensed as revealed with their attention or mindfulness so sometimes people use
• or measurement or relativisms perception attention contact feeling and body awareness all are destroyed
• um persistent mindfulness equanimity attention the list could go on a little bit he ferrets them out one by one known
• i'm looking at ajhana factor or something like attention or even the intention to pay attention or something like vadana
• like attention or even the intention to pay attention or something like vadana or something like
• here's this thing about conception and attention so i would say this bear barest subject this most subtle subject
• the mindful mind or the mind of bear attention fabrication is an important concept but

The Nature of Awareness - (November Solitary) 9 mentions

• traditions uh there's a huge emphasis on paying really fine microscopic attention to the moment-to-moment passing of
• to in a way relax the attention a little bit this one has a bit of a spacious
• same and instead of the habitual attention we give to objects what's coming up a pain
• give to objects what's coming up a pain i give it attention a thought i give it attention an emotion i give an attention
• i give it attention a thought i give it attention an emotion i give an attention a sound i give it attention objects
• attention an emotion i give an attention a sound i give it attention objects objects objects one with practice learns
• objects objects one with practice learns to relax the attention from objects to let them be
• groove that the mind can open into so it could say relaxing attention to objects we could say just resting in
• that consciousness attention intention perception vadana the push pull that