Guest guest Posted April 2, 2002 Report Share Posted April 2, 2002 Meditation is a movement in attention. Attention is not an achievement, for it is not personal. Attention has no border, no frontier to cross; attention is clarity, clear of all thought. Unlike knowing, understanding is not a conclusion, not accumulation. If you have listened, you have understood. Understanding is attention. When you attend completely, you understand. It is the truth that the mind must be quiet, and seeing the truth of this frees the mind from chattering. Perception, which is intelligence, is then operating. Therefore, seeing is of the greatest importance. Seeing is attention, and it is only inattention that gives rise to a problem. Seeing is intelligence. The only thing you can do is to see; you cannot cultivate intelligence in order to see. Seeing is not the cultivation of intelligence. Seeing is more important than intelligence, or happiness, or unhappiness. There is only seeing or not seeing. All the rest - happiness, unhappiness and intelligence - are just words. To be calm and quiet all by yourself is hardly the same as sleeping. In fact, it means being fully awake and following with close attention every move going on inside you. It involves a self-discipline where the urge to get up and go is recognised as a temptation to look elsewhere for what is really close at hand. Be aware of inattention, not practice how to be attentive; if you are aware of your inattention, out of that awareness there is attention, you do not have to practice it. Do please understand this, it is so clear and simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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