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Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Five) - (The Boundless... 9 mentions

• so in this in this attitude then the attention is not so much going to this sound over there and then a bird calls
• and then someone shuffles and the attention goes over there and then it goes to the body and then it goes to
• this to that so that's one mode of attention is is we sort of target something with the
• sort of target something with the attention very helpful and focus the attention on something this is more
• attention very helpful and focus the attention on something this is more um the totality
• to dismiss it or not even notice it but if i can sustain the attention on it and actually give it some interest
• actually give it some interest what happens through the attention on it seems like it's not worth paying
• seems like it's not worth paying attention to it will start deepening and growing generally speaking and may even
• one is a kind of energetic struggling with experience attention comes into the relationship

Freeing the Self - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 9 mentions

• colors or yeah colors and trains my attention in my experience it primes the perception i have a negative
• mindfulness practice is that we start paying attention in a more even and careful way during the day
• giving all one's energy and was intent and one's life force and one's attention to something there was also that love
• in my life this real pattern of wanting to seek attention i was a real attention seeker and i would be the clown i would
• interactions where i was just seeking attention and poking fun at people and all this kind of stuff and
• now we have if the more i pay attention to my experience in my life in any
• situation all situations why pay attention to my experience i will start to see uh it's maybe subtle but this is
• primer for your uh somebody's pay attention and this is extremely significant in terms of understanding
• okay great lovely blissful light very good pay attention to this learn learn there's a lot to learn here what's

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

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

PS - Playing in the In-Betweens - (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

What is 'Insight'? - (IMS Forest Refuge) 9 mentions

• and this whole area of universal insights again needs a lot of attention we really need to explore what is it
• or keep asking in my life is there equal attention and equal interest to what we could say the
• truth of things that i actually don't pay enough attention to the world of the relative world of relationships and
• in their the middle way says they're they're equally deserving of attention so is that true for me
• one is practicing one's being mindful one's paying attention to experience and we we say we have an insight or i
• deepen is a kind of arising of insight through just paying attention moment to moment in ongoing way trying to be
• go moment to moment seeing the change paying attention the body sensation saying oh look at that it's changing
• practice mindfulness with a simple attention just coming back to the present there is in time
• think it's a word that the buddhists bare attention there's a okay now i'm in contact with

In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 9 mentions

• now why am i calling that a fantasy um i'm rather drawing attention there are fantasy elements inextricably woven
• demand or expectation by going with the flow by bringing to a bear attention or mindfulness and not superimposing
• day and you're playing and experimenting with for example the kinds of attention that you bring to bear on the experience
• microscopic intense intensely energized attention am i going to kind of hold it in a kind of very soft uh
• in a kind of very soft uh um more spacious attention am i going to let the attention just touch it like a
• um more spacious attention am i going to let the attention just touch it like a feather very very delicately very softly
• experimenting uh with that kind of attention and the question which is which is the the most helpful way of
• capacity to do these basic things like play with the kinds of attention i give difficult emotions play with the energy
• that it's not so simple it's not so simple so just drawing attention to some of the complexity

Working with Thought in Meditation - (November Solitary) 9 mentions

• practice our ability to reflect as our ability to give bear attention to anything
• another option when there's obsessive thinking is uh sweeping the attention through the body and paying attention to
• thinking is uh sweeping the attention through the body and paying attention to the body sensations as many of you will
• be familiar with this practice sweeping the attention up and down paying attention to the body sensations
• the attention up and down paying attention to the body sensations why because sometimes when there's
• obsessive thinking it's as if the attention has kind of got stuck in one place it's just moving or almost not
• circuit and actually having the attention itself not be stuck by physically moving it can mirror help
• connecting with holding holding tenderly with acceptance with attention those feelings
• eggs of hope of hoping for freedom just in paying attention just in witnessing our difficulty

Beauty and the Buddha - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 9 mentions

• about a lot that they pay a great deal of attention to and support and care for there is a connection though with eros
• for our so to speak our sensitivity our subtlety of awareness or attention with respect to that object that is beautiful
• finding it hard to articulate if you pay attention when you're experiencing beauty sometimes there's a sense of
• experience of soulmaking a bear attention to sense experience to um
• art or to something in nature bear attention will not bring a sense of beauty by itself will not bring a sense
• um i would say at that point it's no longer bare attention we actually haven't realized that it's not actually
• haven't realized that it's not actually their attention doesn't bring a sense of beauty and saw
• um kind of sharp attention to um kind of microscopic attention to the
• kind of sharp attention to um kind of microscopic attention to the details of experience and what comes

Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 4) - (Vajra Music) 9 mentions

• receptive to attuned to how that feels in line with the attention so letting the movement gesture of organization
• and perhaps then not putting so much attention on what feels so far what doesn't feel soulful
• that sense it's kind of unskillful contraction of the attention of the consciousness to the self not a sort of
• contraction almost like an obsessive attention that's out of balance and contracted
• etc just that opening out of more space for the attention for the awareness counteracts the contraction that's
• states of anxiety as well so sometimes just opening out the attention continuing the practice doing all what
• we're doing here working with the dyads but just opening out the attention is still aware of the other still aware of
• larger space not just that movement opening out of the attention to include more to cover a broader space
• eros of the soul that wants to have a fullness of attention it's already there as a sole desire remember fundamental