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Buddhism Beyond Modernism - (November Solitary) 11 mentions

• ignored or just literally not seen we don't see we don't pay attention to because of the paradigm because of
• don't notice we don't see and we don't give it attention to give you many more examples but we don't have time
• and again this so prevalent idea in the diamond the damn world bear attention don't conceptualize just be with things
• one singular way to see truth bear attention it's the meditator's equivalent of that singularism of
• idea or the possibility of bear attention i cannot live there you cannot live there it's impossible it would it
• time of the buddha did not live a life of bare attention enter into a meditation there's a
• certain level where that seems to be a kind of bear attention then one goes deeper much deeper than that there's an
• beauty purpose cannot live with their attention in in you know we can talk about
• mindfulness we are being with things as they are with this bare attention that there is no belief coming into it that
• implicit in this so-called bear attention all kinds of conceptions all kinds
• and then what happens to experience to bear attention is the myth of no myth the concept of no concept

The Eighth Jhana (The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception) - (Practising the Jhānas) 11 mentions

• there's a very subtle whisper in in turn internally to direct the attention to the sense of knowing
• consciousness there's much more attention to what we're conscious of the object this or that thing that i'm
• object this or that thing that i'm paying attention to this or that object of consciousness
• whatever the object is i'm paying attention to until and very little sense of the consciousness of consciousness
• it starts to be that um eventually all all the attention all the consciousness is the consciousness
• so it's just a subtle shift of of the attention and of the intention to pick up on that
• not just intellectual construal but sense of attention uh placing its object its mental object in
• space space is not something that we usually pay attention to usually we're basically addicted or imprisoned or
• basically addicted or imprisoned or habitually we pay attention to objects in space
• we very very and even if an architect or something talks about paying attention to space it's not quite the same thing
• itself is not something that human beings habitually pay attention to so we're training a perception training an

Going Forwards - (Practising the Jhānas) 11 mentions

• there's a very subtle whisper in in turn internally to directly attention to the sense of knowing
• consciousness there's much more attention to what we're conscious of the object this or that thing that i'm
• object this or that thing that i'm paying attention to this or that object of consciousness
• whatever the object is i'm paying attention to until and very little sense of the consciousness of consciousness
• um eventually all all the attention all the consciousness is the consciousness of consciousness
• there's just a subtle shift of of the attention and of the intention to pick up
• not just intellectual control but sense of attention uh placing its object its mental object in
• space space is not something that we usually pay attention to usually we're basically addicted or imprisoned or
• basically addicted or imprisoned or habitually we pay attention to objects in space
• we very very and even if an architect or something talks about paying attention to space it's not quite the same thing
• itself is not something that human beings habitually pay attention to so we're training a perception training and

Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing - (Meditation on Emptiness) 11 mentions

• of mindfulness and particularly bear attention simplicity of attention to things along with that
• so these two pieces the primacy of mindfulness and their attention and the relationship with thought are actually
• practitioners over the years and again with the bare attention piece and the mindfulness piece we spent years
• and in doing that in in giving bear attention to experience in being able to meet the experience with this simple
• complicated and and the mindfulness of their attention just kind of goes underneath and meets the experience
• is it enough does bear attention and mindfulness will they on their own bring enough of a
• these kind of practices with mindfulness and their attention what happens and i remember this and
• the reality of those appearances and sometimes what a bear attention does a little bit is actually make appearances
• it as it is and that's partly the idea of bear attention and actually i don't actually know if the buddha even used
• actually know if the buddha even used this word bear attention i don't know of any place in the soot is where it
• as we practice and as we bring this beautiful bear attention and mindfulness to our experience one of the first

Contemplating the Three Characteristics (Part 1) - Impermanence And Dukkha - (November Solitary) 11 mentions

• the texts if mindfulness uh the practice of attention and awareness that we're engaged in if that uh gains um
• or of thought streams whatever just to really hone the attention little finer begin to see what seems so solid is
• it just hold the attention there we will see the gaps and the
• of things really like within one second just honing the attention honing the concentration down and really looking at
• um what can sometimes happen is is uh the attention just keeps flickering around too quickly so the chainsaw and
• uh it could be that we just sit down and we just place the attention in the heart area
• can be really helpful so that the attention is quite steady um
• convenient so there's this uh attention to the first characteristic impermanence
• so it's not only that we're paying attention to um obvious phenomena
• troubling like something to keep the attention occupied so uh there are objects in awareness and
• so uh there are objects in awareness and just keeping the attention grabbing onto them but we actually don't need to do

Third Morning Instructions - (The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)) 11 mentions

• working with the breath we can respond by refining the quality of attention and sometimes the mind wants to just be
• a bit more subtle in what it's paying attention to tune in a bit more subtly if there is boredom at any time this is
• alive kind of interest delicacy of attention with that withdrawal boredom boredom
• now how heavy should the attention be and
• feather light feather lightness of attention on the whole body area just the the most delicate touch of attention
• attention on the whole body area just the the most delicate touch of attention actually can be the most helpful
• sometimes this awareness often with attention we're used to thinking of here's the
• we're used to thinking of here's the awareness attention and i'm paying attention to something over there i'm up
• awareness attention and i'm paying attention to something over there i'm up here paying attention to the breath and
• attention to something over there i'm up here paying attention to the breath and the body down here
• how does it feel it has a certain quality just putting the attention in that whole space how does it feel

Living in the Truth - (November Solitary) 11 mentions

• we notice what we hadn't noticed before just because we're paying more attention the attention is more alive and we begin
• just because we're paying more attention the attention is more alive and we begin to notice what we had otherwise
• that these faults are somehow more worthy of of attention they're somehow more true it's very easy for us to tip
• continuity of mindfulness and the bear attention that what seems so central and so significant
• in this kind of practice as we begin bringing more bear attention to meet our experience and the personal story can
• could call universal truths just through paying attention to the actuality of experience the bare actuality of
• themselves naturally organically as we're paying their attention to our experience but then i feel we need to
• there without the subtlety of real depth of subtlety of attention there's a whole whole load of doing that's left and
• can't remember which talk uh that this bear attention sometimes very tempting to feel that somehow by
• to feel that somehow by giving bear attention to the actuality of my experience that is the kind of
• or the present moment or or the world of bear attention nowhere to stand and really begin to get a sense on a very

The Way of Image - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 11 mentions

• etc areas of practice that need attention and care and exploration uh so all this is
• conception in this case i'm just drawing attention to how they how they influence each
• not often deliberate objects of attention unless we really draw attention to them so for example when we
• attention unless we really draw attention to them so for example when we gave those talks about
• that we might um that we've drawn attention to so it's a kind of coming through the
• as i as i go into that what seemed like a daydream and and kind of pay attention to it with with a bit more uh respect
• um a recent sort of decision and attention resolution i had to try to study certain areas
• them up by simply noticing it paying attention to that node um uh and that noticing itself that that
• um uh and that noticing itself that that kind of delicate attention to it without pressure actually starts to either
• elements so for example um attention to the energy body is an element and it might be in the
• um in in just the subtlest of realignment uh through the attention it changes the direction of practice so

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

The Fourth Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 10 mentions

• primary limiter is still where where the attention is but they're kind of somehow helping to consolidate and get deeper
• abandoning surrendering or penetrating same modes of attention or you can think about dissolving which
• stillness and to play with that kind of attention intention so at times those feel like separate
• is it that we're conceiving of our attention as something that operates forwards
• and we generally conceive of our attention i know i can hear something back there but because the eyes go that
• that way so is it that we just habitually conceive of our attention going forwards and then we can see that
• being somewhat in front of us um and then in a way my attention is pulled equally
• degrees that the sense of where we're paying attention and which direction the attention moves in canberra significant
• paying attention and which direction the attention moves in canberra significant fruits later on when when it comes to
• you know complete ability to fix the mind's attention on something unwaveringly and more to this capacity