Appropriate Attention
April 29, 2006
Focus on your breathing. It’s a simple exercise: Just be with the sensation of the breath all the way in, all the way out. Notice where you have a sense of the breath, which parts of the body have the energy movement or the physical movement that let you know that now the breath is coming in, now the breath is going out. And it may be in unexpected places. Just try to be sensitive to what you’ve got right here, right now. If the mind wanders off, bring it back. Wanders off again, bring it back again. It’s a simple exercise but it’s not easy. It takes concentration, it takes mindfulness, it takes alertness, all of which are qualities we have to develop.