Attention Moves by Itself
La atención se mueve por sí misma
A question about whether attention should simply be allowed to flow on its own, and how this relates to the practice of absorbing everything that arises.
Attention Moves by Itself
A question about whether attention should simply be allowed to flow on its own, and how this relates to the practice of absorbing everything that arises.
Is it the case that you just allow the attention to flow by itself?
Yes.
I have noticed something very clearly. I was completely caught in thought, and suddenly attention came out of thought, and I didn't even know it was happening. The attention came out of the thoughts entirely by itself. It was so clear: I didn't do a thing, and it just came out on its own.
That's great.
What you said in the meditation about just absorbing everything was very powerful: just letting everything be and absorbing everything that's happening. Is that a similar thing to what was just described about attention coming out of thought by itself?
Similar in the sense that it is simultaneous with attention, yes.
Being apart from thought?
Yes, I see the way you're connecting it.
The belief in controlling attention
With attention, we have a belief that we control it, that there is an agent, an "I," that is directing attention. But it is the same as thought, in that thoughts come and they go, and attention moves.