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Approaches to the Hindrances - (November Solitary) 18 mentions

• knowing mindfulness awareness attention consciousness are actually not the
• the knowing so when there's awareness when there's attention and mindfulness there's always always always
• might like to think of it or awareness or attention as something kind of that can exist in purity just by itself
• very interesting when there's sloth and torque and tiredness pay attention to what the actual experience is
• um just paying attention to that and feeling that sort of
• third one uh paying more attention to the in-breath so you could say almost inherently the
• energized with the in-breath little more attention to the in-breath and you'll actually begin to notice the
• by the in-breath and if you pay attention to that the energy can begin to lift
• energizing the out breath and you can pay attention as the out breath is naturally
• around the head sometimes just to bring the attention down low in the body say the belly or sense of contact really
• the belly or sense of contact really helps bring the attention down low in the body
• keep coming back but watch out that attention doesn't creep in to that that there's just this coming back and just
• there's a kind of pleasantness to it but really give it some good attention how does it feel
• opposite it will stand out to our attention even more it's the way perception works we see in terms of
• abandoning something that actually needs attention but just this one sitting just this one
• manipulate it in any way so there's more sense of paying attention to a totality of experience rather than moving between
• things as they are and this kind of idea of bear attention um
• moving between different things that seem like they need attention you know this

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

Q&A (am) - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 17 mentions

• almost let let the fantasy do its thing but don't give that the attention pry my attention loose from the fancy back to
• but don't give that the attention pry my attention loose from the fancy back to the body without trying to chop anything
• um none of that but actually pay attention to the bodily feeling what i will find is that
• blah blah come to the body to just let that be but come attention body fill it out like we've been doing in the
• people say well this is not their attention because if it's their attention it'll just leave you well
• attention because if it's their attention it'll just leave you well that's an interesting thing
• you work with the image and that's why it's not their attention because if it's their attention the image will leave you
• it's not their attention because if it's their attention the image will leave you so
• runs into problems but let's say i can give bear attention to an image okay but see bear part of the problem with bear
• see bear part of the problem with bear attention is it's not bear there's no such thing as bear attention so if the
• attention is it's not bear there's no such thing as bear attention so if the image leaves it's actually because
• image leaves it's actually because either i get distracted or my attention is not bare and it has a subtle sense of
• there it's got something subtle wrapped up in the attention which has an effect on it so how much that relates to the
• with the sense of value and and that's the thing i'm paying attention to as i'm paying attention to the object does that
• the thing i'm paying attention to as i'm paying attention to the object does that make sense
• idea you understand maybe um but but still it's not bare attention because you're you're um you're almost
• to get understand what is your directs not to pay attention to um can you say a bit more about what's

The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 17 mentions

• also the sense of the very objects that i'm paying attention to and the sense of the very world that i feel myself to be
• and experience of the object that i'm paying attention to the objects and the world around me also the experience of
• of appearances the sense of self the world of objects even as i pay attention to them
• disappear so for instance paying attention to um again the pain in my back or in my in
• staring right at it it's not that i'm not paying attention i'm certainly not distracted it's faded
• certain ways of looking by if if i look um if i pay attention in certain ways of looking it does not appear this thing
• we actually start to see that even attention so to have any experience i need to in
• so to have any experience i need to in some way pay attention to that experience even if it's a very open
• experience even if it's a very open attention i'm attending to the totality vast awareness there's a tension there
• and the mind is actually in a subtle way clinging attention works through a kind of clinging i shut this out to have this
• a pair of calipers it grasps the object of that we're paying attention to so even attention is is a form of clinging
• of that we're paying attention to so even attention is is a form of clinging so these distinctions will go back to
• clinging craving sankara um avija attention these these notions overlap they're all different forms of
• whether it's just the sort of so-called bare attention to experiences none of that is the end of fabrication all of it
• part of perceiving experiencing anything as i said it's part of attention and when i really let go of clinging very
• so then what we might call simple mindfulness or bear attention and the experience of the vividness of things
• of experience of what we call mindfulness or bear attention the vividness that comes with that and the

Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 17 mentions

• likes dislikes propensities emphasis kinds of attention or um
• um areas of attention all of that make up all that together makes up the way of
• looking and pay attention to what happens when i move between ways of looking
• really are to pay our attention which is puncture free sort of vividness of reality
• and when we let go of that through mindfulness and their attention and equanimity we're actually not
• unfabricated so mindfulness bear attention equanimity are ways of looking modes of looking
• regard something as empty while i'm paying attention to it unless that word empty really means something unless i
• can sent something pay attention to something at the same time as i'm paying
• something at the same time as i'm paying attention to it regard it as empty that has to be based on my on a clear
• that i pay attention to the ways of looking it naturally opens and then i practice
• that's that's totally what we're exploring what we're paying attention to dependent on this way of looking
• big space or in the kind of microscopic myopic attention to um
• engage a way of looking at that holds something in attention and regards it as empty
• um encounter through as bare sensation or what is revealed with their attention with mindfulness or equanimity etc
• um that's not what's there and bear attention to mindfulness it has a much lesser status it's a much lower place in
• forms and the perception perception itself and attention and contact and vadana and intention
• intention perception attention meaning to perception depends on consciousness

"A Body at Peace with Itself" - (November Solitary) 17 mentions

• because something is calling to the attention it's very insistent on consciousness and
• why is the buddha saying pay particular attention to that part of it is because these are areas these are the very areas
• the most common one in insight meditation is this bare attention so that's b-a-r-e not b-e-a-r
• so that's b-a-r-e not b-e-a-r bear attention to the experiences the sensations of the body
• so what do we begin to see when we turn this bare attention uh to explore the body what begins to reveal itself
• sense of fluidity a sense of space all this in the bear attention to the life of the body
• of the body the more we pay attention on this level to the life of the body the more the
• and of course of course when we pay attention to the body there are areas that are lacking in sensation we can't
• have to don't have to go there and the more we pay attention just the more the body becomes alive and if a
• does it feel there how does that feel just a gentle attention brings life to the to the sense of the body
• and go underneath the label this bare attention underneath the label of pain is a word that we slap onto things and
• sensations under a microscope really diving the attention in there to to see see the fabric the very fabric of the
• energy field of perception if we really pay attention there are actually frequencies of i don't know
• possibility this idea of bear attention that is so in a way so common in insight meditation
• in a way so common in insight meditation bear attention is actually not a phrase not a concept that the buddha ever used
• discourses where where you can find the phrase bear attention now that doesn't mean that it's not
• in this tradition it's that meditation of mindfulness bear attention just being with the actuality of things beautiful

Q & A, and Short Talk (2) - (Practising the Jhānas) 16 mentions

• absolutely totally crucial that the attention needs to get increasingly subtle with it
• enjoy it and totally get into it so if the attention is not fully maximally subtle and if i'm not fully
• um really be on my toes with with the attention really subtilizing the attention really
• attention really subtilizing the attention really getting into it really making sure i'm
• retreats and if i if i hang out there but really the attention has to be really really alive really subtle
• um and you work with the same you might work with these two modes of attention the narrow focused penetrating or the
• um in a very unhurried way playing with these different modes of attention that's what's going to consolidate it
• they start getting lower down the center of the attention starts get look getting lower down maybe even the place where
• just enjoying that thread and attuning the attention to it and finding the beauty in it
• the breath and not just follow it with attention but follow the way the breath is tells us how the mind is
• happening in each genre is not that we're paying attention to it and keeping our mind fixed on one small physical or
• and really that that fine tuning and then pay attention at you and let things amplify from there
• at this point and be reincorporated this stuff i've given all my attention to pt and happiness and now now it's almost
• lawn or gone for a walk or whatever and i and i pay attention if i'm still relatively open relatively sensitive
• but if you practice generosity and you pay attention and sometimes you practice a really
• realize what you'll come to realize if you pay careful attention to these things really go for it as a practice is

Mindfulness of Mind States - (November Solitary) 16 mentions

• mindfulness of the body so with paying attention to the breath and paying attention to the body sensations and the
• attention to the breath and paying attention to the body sensations and the breath being one of the
• really caring attention and investigation so actually for many people it's not uh
• we're we struggle with it to bring attention and to bring investigation a real care into that
• to be really rooted in the body and this will give our attention our mindfulness uh some real power and
• might be a bit shrunken it might be that i need to pay attention to space more actually expand the mind literally by
• actually expand the mind literally by paying attention to physical space by paying attention to light
• paying attention to physical space by paying attention to light it needs or it may need a bit more of an
• actually direct the attention uh to the changing nature of mind stays so
• necessary in meditation to pay very close attention to what's going on so we're really uh for instance if there is
• and it's uh very skillful can be very skillful to really let the attention in a very soft way go into that uh feeling
• so that's what we might call kind of microscopic attention on the other extreme we might have
• move between these two ways of using attention quite a microscopic way and quite a expansive way
• does uh how does each way of using attention how does that affect what's going on how does it affect a sense of
• of anger the way we use attention is also not a neutral thing the way we use mindfulness
• being called by a mind state and we bring uh we bring a care and attention uh bring a way of working with with it

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 6) - (The Mirrored Gates) 16 mentions

• practice when one begins to notice these things pay attention to them and tune to them these aspects and elements of the
• ignites that specific node or elemental aspect that one's paying attention to and then that in turn can ignite or or
• one of these elements i bring my attention to that and i kind of um
• just the introduction of the question lightly it uh shapes my attention in a way that shines a light on that
• that's very subtly implicit in in the very attention itself in the looking very very uh nuanced and delicate
• of bringing a kind of very sensitive curious attention um again say with the example of an
• kind of questioning or a kind of cure curious sensitive attached attention to one of those elements or aspects on the
• of questioning or sensitive curious attention the possibility of actually focusing on shifting it switching it on
• way is that fullness of intention that element that i drew attention to coming what number it was on our sort of list
• nowadays a lot of people are you know very importantly drawing attention to the needs to eat so as as hopefully
• regarding to this element is that um we can pay attention when we're working with an image to
• or the way we're sensing something to solve so we pay attention to the sensitive temporary and notice it now
• we're not at this by introducing this aspect or element and drawing attention to it of eternality of timelessness
• those that's that's kind of like it it it emerges to our uh attention and consciousness we notice it more
• mindfulness is not non-conceptual but so-called bear attention is not at all non-conceptual
• and on that on that note we can again draw attention to the fact that many of the concepts we use in this soulmaking

Q & A, and Short Talk - (Practising the Jhānas) 16 mentions

• absolutely totally crucial that the attention needs to get increasingly subtle with it
• enjoy it and totally get into it so if the attention is not fully maximally subtle and if i'm not fully
• um really be on my toes with with the attention really satellizing the attention really
• attention really satellizing the attention really getting into it really making sure i'm
• retreats and if i if i hang out there but really the attention has to be really really alive really subtle and
• um and you work with the same you might work with these two modes of attention the narrow focused penetrating or the
• um in a very unhurried way playing with these different modes of attention that's what's going to consolidate it
• they start getting lower down the center of the attention starts get getting lower down maybe even the place where
• enjoying that thread and attuning the attention to it and finding the beauty in it
• the breath and not just follow it with attention but follow the way the breath is tells us how the mind is
• what's happening in each genre is not that we're paying attention to it and keeping our mind fixed on one small
• and really that that fine tuning and then pay attention at you and let things amplify from there
• reincorporated this stuff i've given all my attention to pt and happiness and now now it's almost like after all that
• lawn or going for a walk or whatever and i and i pay attention if i'm still relatively open relatively sensitive
• but if you practice generosity and you pay attention and sometimes you practice a really
• realize what you'll come to realize if you pay careful attention to these things really go for it as a practice is