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When Attention Comes to Rest in Itself
In this bonus episode, taken from a recent online public meeting, Amoda Maa explores the deeply ingrained habit of attention contracting around the objects of experience — our thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, problems, and plans.
When attention becomes bound up with experience, identity becomes bound up with it too: I am this thought. I am this feeling. I am this difficulty. From here arises the constant attempt to manage, control, fix, reject, or change what is happening.
Amoda invites a different possibility: the relaxation of attention. Not as a withdrawal from experience or an…
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