Awakening Mastering Attention
Our process of awakening has much to do with our mastery of
our attention. This is really true!
The first thing that we come to learn to master is our
attention. The rest of our work depends on it. If we have not mastered our
attention we can not meditate, concentrate, observe ourselves, pray etc.
To awaken we need to keep our attention, by knowing that we
have attention and that we are putting our attention on something.
If we just place our attention on something we are not
awakened! Awakening comes when we divide our attention!
That is when we have a part of our attention on something
and another part is on our consciousness knowing that we are placing our
attention on something and we are dividing it.
I what to say that having all of our attention on something
is very good. It is a good skill. Though it is not to be awakened. We need to
add the knowing part that to it.
Usually though we are all much worse than this. We have no
mastery over our attention. Our attention is taken here and there. Like a log tossed on the waves of a stormy ocean.
What is so typical in us is to be asleep and have our
attention on the wrong thing, like receiving instructions from our boss and we
are fantasizing about flying a F-35 fifth generation stealth jet fighter plane.
What Hooks Out Attention
So many times, we are holding our attention and something
happens or something is said and we feel are attention leaving our hands and going
into our thinking about the implications or interpretations of what was said.
Whatever hooks our attention is always a reason from our
subconscious. When we make an attempt of will to take our attention away from
our thinking this reason kicks in and says: “No Don’t leave, keep thinking.”.
It is always a reason, that hooks our attention and keeps
our attention hooked. These hypnotic reasons must be sought out, understood and
overcome to expand and intensify the mastery of our attention.
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