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Exploring unsupressing thinking during meditation and not collapsing awareness around it but holding it as one more & #39;sense& #39; among many. Doing this practice as I increase sensory resolution.
This practice works best after you have disembedded from thought being your sensory boundary.*
*Once you are able to hold many senses open and increase their resolution over a sit instead of being lost in thought and forgetting of the body and other senses.
*Once you are able to hold many senses open and increase their resolution over a sit instead of being lost in thought and forgetting of the body and other senses.
It can be useful in the beginning of a practice to & #39;place attention& #39; back on breath, but my leading edge is telling me this is only to develop enough capacity to be able to hold awareness open and increasing in resolution.
Place & #39;attention on breath& #39; is feeling not like the right direction because it
1) reifies breath
2) reifies attention
Both of these are & #39;collapsed& #39; or & #39;embedded& #39; perspectives in that they operate from a more particulaized form of mental formation.
1) reifies breath
2) reifies attention
Both of these are & #39;collapsed& #39; or & #39;embedded& #39; perspectives in that they operate from a more particulaized form of mental formation.
For beginners, this is a good direction to aim for in creating & #39;attentional stability& #39;. But it& #39;s an instrumental capability as opposed to an end.
Also I have problems with language around attention and awareness. I& #39;m still spellcasting & refactoring dis. https://twitter.com/_StevenFan/status/1318953090528153600?s=20">https://twitter.com/_StevenFa...
Also I have problems with language around attention and awareness. I& #39;m still spellcasting & refactoring dis. https://twitter.com/_StevenFan/status/1318953090528153600?s=20">https://twitter.com/_StevenFa...
Hmm wanting to be more clear than "particularized mental formation" jargon and lazy af.
My own language is still baking but lets try some ball park synonyms or related terms. I need to find distinctions within: habit of mind, limiting belief, mental construct...
My own language is still baking but lets try some ball park synonyms or related terms. I need to find distinctions within: habit of mind, limiting belief, mental construct...
These all have a feel of sustained, self reinforcing structure of mind.
What are structures of mind? Perhaps correlative+ (causal models), which bind together different elements of mind via wire-together-fire-together; the stuff of perceptions that make us able to orient.
What are structures of mind? Perhaps correlative+ (causal models), which bind together different elements of mind via wire-together-fire-together; the stuff of perceptions that make us able to orient.
So & #39;attention& #39; being a & #39;mental formation& #39; means it& #39;s a built up way of using elements of mind, the senses, but brings something extra. In this case it filters out senses dependent on emotional salience of & #39;objects& #39; appearing through senses.
There is certainly an inherent seeming propensity to use mind this way (hello society) but it is still conditioned in that it can be reconditioned or unconditioned. I recommend verifying this for yourself.
