We can apply such bare attention at any time, taking the “fresh produce” of the world straight from the fields of the senses, without prepackaging raw experience with our old, habitual conceptual wrappings. The challenge here is to distinguish what reality is presenting to our senses from moment to moment from what we are superimposing on the world, often unconsciously. This is what the Buddha was referring to when he declared,
~ Alan Wallace from ‘The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind’
“In the seen there is only the seen; in the heard, there is only the heard; in the sensed, there is only the sensed; in the mentally perceived, there is only the mentally perceived.”
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2020
No registration required. The meeting link is –
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/553721188?pwd=NXdmSnFSQUVTWFVhMk13dHMzVlRDQT09
If you are asked for a passcode then enter: 5ps
The topic is for contemplation, reflection and sharing at the online virtual ‘Sit-and-Share’ meditation meeting via Zoom from 7:30 pm ready for a prompt start at 8 pm (UK time). This meeting’s topic was chosen by Patrick, who will be our ‘Sit-and-Share’ host.
PLEASE NOTE: The meeting is scheduled to start at 8 pm and close at or shortly after 9 pm but the Zoom meeting room will be open 30-minutes before and after for conversation, connection and fellowship.
All welcome.
Please read ‘How to attend a Virtual Sit-and-Share meeting’.
Image by Vince Cullen – ‘Tian Tan Buddha – Lantau Island’ – Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, Hong Kong – May 2008