If you look closely, there is a kind of seeing that happens before the eyes open. Before recognition, before the mind decides what a thing is, the first note of awareness plays. The world reveals itself in its raw language of texture and timbre. We rarely stay there long. The mind rushes to translate, to categorize, to name. Butattention—true attention—asks for something different. It isn’t a command. It’s a listening. When I first began meditating, I treated attention like a […]
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