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Awareness

Enquiries into attention and the act of noticing.

8 pieces

There is a gap. It is not empty, and it is not mystical. It is simply where you are when nothing is being said.

There is no exit door, and anyone selling one is part of the arrangement. There is only the slow, unglamorous work of seeing the walls.

A sentence everyone repeats and almost nobody has tested. Testing it takes about four minutes and changes what the phrase means.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Fear presents itself with a cause attached. Remove the cause and the fear finds another — which suggests the cause was never the point.

Self-observation seems to require two: one who watches and one who is watched. Look for the watcher and the arrangement does something unexpected.

If there is a single lever in inner life, it is attention. Everything called practice is some arrangement for placing it deliberately.