If your meditation is not about making your attentional function stronger, it’s not meditation.https://twitter.com/OortCloudAtlas/status/1001517657152110594 …
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The rest will follow from the improvement of attention.
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Well, Donnie, sila is an interesting point, but I'm more pointing to: 1. Awakening is possible w/o cultivating attention, such as various advaita traditions 2. Attention alone may miss the point entirely 3. Attention w/o equanimity is a recipe for overwhelm
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The Vedanta traditions are cultivating attention. It is an attentional act to ‘neti-neti’ something.
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Yes. Becoming a mathematician is nothing more than paying attention to numbers. Learning to dance is nothing more than just paying attention to movement. Nothing more than attention. Right?


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I want to say that paying attention to a mental object is a different exercise with different effects than paying attention to movement or numbers, but I’m winging it a bit to say so.
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So maybe the relevant discussion is not paying attention or not, but the many different variants and scales of attention...
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