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The First Jhana, and Playing and Working in (and out of) any Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 20 mentions

• um looking at something it also needs this kind of the quality of attention and also the subtlety of the object and
• and also the subtlety of the object and the attention in order for pt to arise if you're going by the concentration
• the energizing will be the quality of the attention more important than the quantity we've talked about is now three
• concentration more and more subtle and the attention needs to become correspondingly subtle so if i can even
• more subtle that's great i certainly need to encourage the attention to get more and more subtle
• so the object itself becomes more more subtle and i and the attention becomes more subtle i encourage that
• or generally something we don't like is the attention shrinks open it out again in the very opening it out does
• i don't always have to focus on it i can keep my attention i will have to work to keep my attention
• i can keep my attention i will have to work to keep my attention where it's pleasant where it feels
• daydreaming and but if i can keep my attention let's say in that example my belly feels good and my heart area
• contraction and that the attention goes there and
• make one realize it's just oh it's just a habit i pay attention to what's difficult where there's constriction
• mindfulness i bring matters because i can bring an attention there i can bring a kind of mindfulness
• just doesn't do anything to it or i can be with it the attention the mindfulness has uh skillful qualities in it it has
• a helpful mindfulness there a helpful attention so that's all great
• said yesterday now these modes of attention where i really nuzzle into it really go penetrate into it or really
• again open up the whole energy body and just the opening up of the attention to the whole entry the pt will naturally
• the balloon you make the balloon bigger the balloon of attention the gas will fill the balloon
• kind of relatively slowly between those two modes of attention the penetrating kind of narrow focus and probing and the
• to have a slightly more spacious attention to go into the more receptive mode and less of the probing mode so all

Developing Piti, Developing Focus, Developing Wellbeing - (Practising the Jhānas) 20 mentions

• um looking at something it also needs this kind of the quality of attention and also the subtlety of the object and
• and also the subtlety of the object and the attention in order for pt to arise if you're going by the concentration
• the energizing will be the quality of the attention more important than the quantity we've talked about is now three
• concentration more and more subtle and the attention needs to become correspondingly subtle so if i can even
• more subtle that's great i certainly need to encourage the attention to get more and more subtle
• so the object itself becomes more more subtle and i and the attention becomes more subtle i encourage that
• or generally something we don't like is the attention shrinks open it out again in the very opening it out does
• i don't always have to focus on it i can keep my attention i will have to work to keep my attention
• i can keep my attention i will have to work to keep my attention where it's pleasant where it feels
• daydreaming and but if i can keep my attention let's say in that example my belly feels good and my heart area
• contraction and that the attention goes there and
• make one realize it's just oh it's just a habit i pay attention to what's difficult where there's constriction
• mindfulness i bring matters because i can bring an attention there i can bring a kind of mindfulness
• just doesn't do anything to it or i can be with it the attention the mindfulness has uh skillful qualities in it it has
• a helpful mindfulness there a helpful attention so that's all great
• said yesterday now these modes of attention where i really nuzzle into it really go penetrate into it or really
• again open up the whole energy body and just the opening up of the attention to the whole entry the pt will naturally
• the balloon you make the balloon bigger the balloon of attention the gas will fill the balloon
• kind of relatively slowly between those two modes of attention the penetrating kind of narrow focus and probing and the
• to have a slightly more spacious attention to go into the more receptive mode and less of the probing mode so all

Insight Ways of Looking, Other Energy Body Possibilities, and Summarized Instructions -... 20 mentions

• something it also needs this kind of the quality of attention and also the subtlety of the object and the attention
• quality of attention and also the subtlety of the object and the attention in order for pt to arise
• the energizing will be the quality of the attention more important than the quantity we've talked about is now three
• concentration more and more subtle and the attention needs to become correspondingly subtle so if i can even
• more subtle that's great i certainly need to encourage the attention to get more and more subtle
• so the object itself becomes more more subtle and i and the attention becomes more subtle i encourage that
• or generally something we don't like is the attention shrinks open it out again in the very opening it out does
• don't always have to focus on it i can keep my attention i will have to work to keep my attention
• i can keep my attention i will have to work to keep my attention where it's pleasant where it feels
• daydreaming and but if i can keep my attention let's say in that example my belly feels good and my heart area
• good when there's a contraction and that the attention goes there and
• make when residential oh it's just a habit i pay attention to what's difficult where there's constriction
• mindfulness i bring matters because i can bring an attention there i can bring a kind of mindfulness
• just doesn't do anything to it or i can be with it the attention the mindfulness has uh skillful qualities in it it has
• a helpful mindfulness there a helpful attention so that's all great
• said yesterday then these modes of attention where i really nuzzle into it really go penetrate into it or really
• up the whole energy body and just the opening up of the attention to the whole entry the pt will naturally spread like
• the balloon you make the balloon bigger the balloon of attention the gas will fill the balloon the air will fill the
• kind of relatively slowly between those two modes of attention the penetrating kind of narrow focus and probing and the
• to have a slightly more spacious attention to go into the more receptive mode and less of the probing mode so all

Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 19 mentions

• um or sometimes people are just always paying attention in a very kind of microscopic very narrow intense way you
• um it's the always that's the problem now someone else always paying attention to kind of relaxed open spacious
• insight that arises we get certain insights through a microscopic attention that perhaps are not so easily available
• moment and really being mindful really paying attention to the pleasure as it arises and passes moment to moment
• arises and passes moment to moment and if there's enough attention eventually uh you know sun was actually
• eventually uh you know sun was actually the initial giving more attention to the pleasant actually
• worth it how good is this really but i have to pay attention to uh to really answer that question i
• to uh to really answer that question i have to really pay close attention to the pleasure
• actually in this um attempt a close attention to the arising of pleasure in in um in having what i want
• but sensing feeling the endings the impermanence of things giving attention to
• all kinds of things but they're they're related there i have to pay attention enough to notice and i have to pay
• enough to notice and i have to pay attention perhaps to impermanence and i have to pay uh that forms of basis for a
• actually to really take up again a kind of close attention with the mindfulness and the kind of
• subtle sometimes not so subtle but that's what needs the attention that's what needs the care and what does it
• skip over well through the self it's almost like we laser beam the attention down to the sensations of the emotion
• alluded to you know giving a honing attention on the emotion rather than the self so here's this emotion and one way
• the the micro leanings of of attention think of um you know an eagle or one of those
• very gently kind of um incline the mind or the attention towards the yumminess without ignoring
• often in eros with eros there is uh attention there is what we what we're calling an erotic tension

Sense Desire - (November Solitary) 19 mentions

• and that that brings it into the center of our attention or occasionally we might engage in something or indulge in
• and the staff dining room how much attention and importance is given to food
• mindfulness on wakefulness on presence on bare attention which catherine talked about the other way meeting life
• the just consistent working at the mindfulness and the bear attention connection came disconnection
• of interest with a complete fullness fullness of attention if we do that
• it's finiteness and if if the attention is really alive and you can see this even when a morsel
• pleasure of it and if you if the attention is subtle you can pick up on there is a subtle sense of desperation
• pretty small really pay attention to it there's a lot of work for not much
• gonna be fantastic if you really pay attention it's an invitation really explore it a lot of muscular work goes
• not even in the whole mouth if you really pay attention just these little momentary bursts of pleasure and what we
• can sense pleasure withstand my full attention if something's really worth something it
• if something's really worth something it has to withstand my full attention can it repay my full attention again if
• has to withstand my full attention can it repay my full attention again if something has some depth to it some some
• something has some depth to it some some substance to it it the more attention you give it the more it repays that
• you give it the more it repays that attention with it with its substance and its depth and its juice
• grasping after sense pleasures if you pay attention a delicate way to the heart area the area of the heart
• this kind of practice so we come to practice and we start giving attention to our experience giving attention to
• practice and we start giving attention to our experience giving attention to the things of the senses and we give
• the things of the senses and we give attention we bring mindfulness too and what happens i said before is the senses

Ways of Looking: (1) Anicca - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 19 mentions

• um so for example you're sitting and you're paying attention just being generally mindful and you notice
• change deliberately to tune the attention into the sense the aspect the um perception the experience experiences
• if that calming is also because of the bare attention as well you know it says there's not that you know so there's a
• bit so when when you're paying better attention you really simplifying things and it's like that tends to calm the
• uh so that's an example obviously where we're directing the attention as we talked about yesterday we can have the
• talked about yesterday we can have the attention works in an open way or or a directed way we can choose and that's
• obviously an example where we're directing the attention well what if we were to open out the listening right now
• yeah great okay again we're directing the attention there's nothing esoterically significant
• and of course again we could open up the attention you could be with a whole body in the field of the whole body because
• in the field of the whole body because what is it to open up the attention right now and actually be in the whole
• what is it to really tune in there and really pay attention to the change of the experience of taste so this is quite
• and it's like what is it to really give that attention to that and notice notice sight's an interesting one if we move to
• construct phenomena through perception through attention the way we pay attention all of that but see if it
• through attention the way we pay attention all of that but see if it feels like really compelling for you
• if you if you pay really careful attention to something that's not a visual field that's not moving actually
• a kind of flip like that what happens if i just pay attention to to the arising of intentions of quite subtle it's quite
• solid so impenetrable so heavy now begin turning the the attention to it and looking for the change you start to see
• lawn and actually really paying attention and looking out before she went out it was
• okay then you're being more kind of directed with the attention so play with it like everything else

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 2) - (The Mirrored Gates) 19 mentions

• but look also as we look as i mentioned some of these and draw attention to them uh look also at how they often fall
• the the emphasis on um attention to an investigation of the appearances of everyday life the
• and so it you know can we bring attention to that with mindfulness um can we bring a bear attention to that
• attention to that with mindfulness um can we bring a bear attention to that so these are
• but again here even though science started with let's give attention to the appearances again in both the
• we're just saying give give a really close bear attention to my experience of the world and my inner experience right
• give a really close mindfulness to that and what happens is the attention kind of
• intention actually in in mindfulness and in bear attention it's actually actually again
• we might be tempted to assume that employing an attention or a mindfulness or that we are employing in inside
• meditation and through mindfulness a kind of attention um
• things are and if we employ an attention that reveals and i'll put that in inverted
• of it so in investigating in giving it careful attention um uh in in paying attention to it with
• careful attention um uh in in paying attention to it with curiosity let's see where's that subject
• curiosity let's see where's that subject object split now as i pay attention to it that paying attention to it
• object split now as i pay attention to it that paying attention to it um is itself a way of looking and it and
• it that paying attention to it curiously affects the state of it and therefore
• um bear attention or mindfulness these are ways of looking they're not revealing a
• with any kind of mindfulness bear attention or this or that um is is is what we then experience
• so my ca are we caring by giving so much attention to the gdp and and kind of relentlessly being entrenched in in the

Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (1) - (Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma) 18 mentions

• the energy body is moving and and that's part of what you're paying attention to clear
• happens if we put a bit more emphasis and attention on it now and explore it a bit more one of the things i think i've
• there so she's tuning the level of attention this is right or wrong but this is
• particular exercise what level or domain of attention and sensitivity and if it's simple basic mindfulness
• and again find the pitch of the attention and sensitivity whether it's simple mindfulness or
• however you want your body to move and the attention is on yourself and what that movement feels like or what you
• we'll skip the bit we're going to play with the balance of attention and just kind of arriving together when we when
• having played with the balance of attention then um
• witnessing and both people are paying attention in this in this in this uh with all the
• or whatever it is yeah again so there's a pitching of the attention to what feels most fruitful
• going to do a bit with the balance of attention as well um yeah if you need a cushion sure get a
• just notice what happens with the attention does it go all into that fact of someone there or does it kind of have
• whatever you notice this business of twoness of attention is not easy you'd think it was but it's actually not
• and then let's try again this kind of proportion of 80 20 80 of your attention if you like is with your own experience
• stay in touch so most of the attention on your experience your energy body your
• again either spread in a kind of whole space of attention or a kind of fluid kind of back and forth
• fairly rapidly between the two of you so the attention is balanced between the two of you
• again there's a kind of balance of attention there you are the recipient right now of good

The Development of Equanimity: Introduction and First Instructions - (Equanimity) 18 mentions

• it's hard to sort of i don't know how to say it to kind of draw attention to how significant it might be
• say it in a way that that kind of draws enough attention to it's so normal for that to shift and we say yeah yeah i
• um give it our attention open the attention to it there's a way
• give it our attention open the attention to it there's a way that it kind of can embrace everything
• very simple just putting the attention in that area and feeling whatever is there
• sensing there an alive presence of attention very simple attention
• an alive presence of attention very simple attention and seeing if you can get a sense right
• seeing if it's possible to bring the attention in a very relaxed way very delicate attention
• attention in a very relaxed way very delicate attention to the
• impermanence with the attention may i be at peace with the flow of
• body that's really calling your attention because of discomfort or whatever
• with changing experience or if you like opening up the attention to include the whole body a fuller sense
• the mind wanders the attention wanders very normal
• that wandering of the mind wandering of the attention can that also be included
• with the flow of experience seeing if the attention can be relaxed but alive
• actually quite important to give the attention to and the kind of holdings and tightenings and
• happen there to give an attention to that is is quite important
• you know of course the mind's gonna um are you going to lose attention of course is of course you're going to sit

Logoi and Leanings - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 18 mentions

• traditions in buddha dharma teach is always with a microscopic attention always you're kind of borrowing the
• always you're kind of borrowing the attention into something atomizing experience and that's
• get insight um and so the attention is always trying to work in this kind of atomizing
• falls so we one option is to lean in to those lovely feelings and pay attention to them with the intention of enjoying
• because the intention directs and primes the attention and what i'm trying to do
• um for example i'm trying to enjoy it it shapes it not just directs the attention but it shapes it or flavors it or
• relishing all that is wrapped up in the attention but it's um it's driven by it's programmed by the
• making and that directs and shapes informs the attention so
• be receptive i have to be delicate and sensitive in my attention so that i can notice where is the soulmaking what's
• the different elements that we can give attention to begin to notice or begin to deliberately ignite tweak play with etc
• dynamic the aeropsychologist dynamic but if you pay attention to your experience you will notice that eros
• um balance things out by just paying attention to what kind of perception of time is happening right now and maybe
• instance the sense of grace i give that a little bit more attention or the sense of being loved
• soothing quality so it kind of um just some attention doesn't have to be all the attention but some attention
• um just some attention doesn't have to be all the attention but some attention to those kind of qualities or as i said
• soul um and also the balance of attention like we said with self other world where
• where uh can i play with this balance of attention and actually feel more that sustainability and stability come into
• people you can play you can do the balance of attention thing you can just talk about how you're feeling you can do