Have a look at how a thought hijacks my attention and prevents the rising of concentration. Surrender to what is right in front of me is the way back to attention and the doorway to concentration.
Resistance to Attention and Loss of Concentration
Study the Self, Forget the Self with the Help of Attention
To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.
To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.
Dogen, Actualizing the Fundamental Point
When meeting things with attention the self drops away. In this short video listen to Lao di Zhi explain how attention became an experience of forgetting the self.
Study the self, forget the self
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3 Minute PLUS Videos
Attention! Attention! Attention!
In this 3 Minute PLUS video Lao di Zhi links the importance of Attention to the 95th Psalm and Hebrews 3:15 with the sewing of a quilt. As many know, it is one stitch at a time, over and over again bringing together the threads of the mind.
Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.
Hebrews 3:15
Today, if only you would hear his voice,
Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah….
Psalms 95:8
Meribah being a place of complaint and rebellion against your circumstances. This ancieint text is as true for us today as it was for the Israelites. Attention softens and helps to dissipate a complainng heart and allows you to listen and attend to what is right there.
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