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  2. Thinking & Not Thinking
     … As the breath absorbs more and more of your attention, the thinking fades into the background. So as I said, you’re using two of those five methods: the method of not paying any attention to the distraction, and the method of relaxing. As you pay attention to the breath, you’ll notice when you’re thinking that there will be a pattern of … 
  3. Your Inner Ally
     … You keep directing your thought and your attention to the breath, and then you evaluate it. You’re evaluating both the breath and the quality of your attention, trying to figure out what kind of breathing and what kind of attention will feel best. In other words, it is possible to focus too strongly on the breath to the point where you’re constricting … 
  4. Appropriate Attention
     … An important part of appropriate attention is seeing the connection between our clingings and cravings and the suffering that we experience, realizing that it’s something that we’re doing. If you blame your suffering on things outside, on individuals outside, on the system outside, that’s inappropriate attention. You’re not paying attention in the right way. For the Buddha, attention is a … 
  5. The Primacy of the Mind (2)
     … Among those prior factors are fabrications—your intentional acts—and acts of attention: the things you pay attention to and the way you pay attention. These will shape what you see as you make contact with the world, what you hear, what you smell, what you taste, what you touch, and what you think. These things are all shaped by factors inside the mind … 
  6. Insight from Developing Concentration
     … They come from past karma but they’re also involved with your present karma, what you’re doing right now, what you choose to pay attention to or not pay attention to. You start seeing where their allure is. Again, a lot of the allure has to do with what you are and are not paying attention to. You see this in sexual fantasies … 
  7. Appropriate Attention
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  10. Pay Attention
  11. Intention & Attention
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  13. Bare vs. Appropriate Attention
     … bare attention, simply observing things arising and passing away. The purity of that bare attention, they said, would guarantee purity of insight. Then they felt they had a method that could be exported to other countries as well. But what we found was that to whatever extent the method did work originally, it was because people were bringing their Buddhist training, their Buddhist assumptions … 
  14. Attention to What's Ordinary (outdoors)
  15. Take Care
     … citta , being intent on what you’re doing, really paying attention. When you listen, pay attention; when you talk, pay attention. In other words, pay attention both to the things that come into the mind and to the things that go out, and exercise restraint. One of Ajaan Suwat’s most stinging ways of criticizing somebody was, “This is a person who, as soon … 
  16. Engaging the Whole Mind
    When you meditate, you have to pay attention to two things. One is where you’re going to focus your attention, and here we focus on the breath. When the breath comes in, know that it’s coming in. When it goes out, know it’s going out. Focus wherever you have a sense of the process of breathing. It may not necessarily be … 
  17. In Your Power
     … That’s where appropriate attention comes in. Appropriate attention is not simply looking at things as they are, because there are a lot of truths out there that are totally irrelevant to what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to find happiness, trying to figure out how we’re creating suffering. Appropriate attention helps us in our efforts by looking at things … 
  18. Guided Meditation
     … Then move your attention over to the left, the lower left-hand corner of the abdomen, and follow the same three steps there. Then movie attention up to the solar plexus and follow the same steps there. Then move your attention over to the right, to the right flank. And then to the left, to the left flank. Then bring your attention up to … 
  19. Every Little Bit
     … You go through the motions but you’re not really paying close attention. In the context of right exertion, paying close attention is called “upholding your intent.” The word intent, citta, there, can mean the intentness with which you’re doing this. You’re paying close attention to what you’re doing each second that you’re aware of. If you’re doing the … 
  20. Appropriate Attention
     … Whether we’re paying attention to that or paying attention to something else, the consciousness in the present moment is here. Alertness is more focused. It’s focused on what you’re doing, either outside or inside the mind—because that’s what makes all the difference. So we’re here not because the present moment is a wonderful moment, but because there’s … 
  21. Just This Breath
     … How deep can it go, how good can it feel? How much of your attention can you give to it? Ordinarily, the mind is like a command post where you’re receiving information from all directions about all sorts of different things, and it has a tendency to reserve some attention from what you’re trying to focus on right now in case an … 
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