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events, etc, making as if and believing that every experience is happening toit and through its agency and that every action is done through its agency.

So sensory instruments usually act in a natural and automatic manner, but

the egoic mind can focus attention and shift the focus of attention towards oraway from any objects of sensory experience in a directive way, as it is

naturally concerned with seeking more pleasure, power, profit and avoidingpain, suffering and loss.

All the five internal instruments are involved in self-talking or thinking,

which is a focusing of the energy of attention, animating and sustaining theconscious mind, in a given area or on a given object. Attention, however, is

a silent, wordless, formless and all pervading energy filling and animatingthe space of the conscious mind and everything it contains as objects, events,

entities, thoughts, emotions, etc.

Now where does this silent energy of attention come from? It comes from

the Universal Life animating, sustaining the body-brain complex with itshost of instruments of experience and action. When the Universal Life is

reflected in the living organism, attention, as an energy of the UniversalLife, shines and illuminates the spaces of the mind and allows all

movements of conscious experiencing, subconscious thinking andunconscious stirring, inherent in the organism to flow and manifest.

So everything the mind space can experience is conditioned by the inputs

from and processing by the instruments of experience and action, bothexternal and internal. So all mental experiences are always conditioned and

they rest on the ground of attention. Mind can know only what itsinstruments can capture from the field of experience through the energy of

attention.

A mind with focused attention is an inattentive mind, which is involved in

self-talking, in divisive experience and in egoic perception, cognition and

pursuits- a seer seeing objects through a lens or focus. What happens whenthe lens or focus is not there? Then both the contracted vision and thelimited seer, produced as polarities by the lens or focus, just disappear! What

remains is the experiencing of actuality with unfocused, undivided attention.

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When is the lens or focus dropped? It happens in a state of relaxation, lettinggo, resting in herenow awareness without any form of contraction,

resistance, seeking, focusing, holding, pulling, etc.

Only unfocused, uncentred, undivided attention is unfragmented, total, all-encompassing, all-embracing. This is the purest form of love. Only total

attention is in direct connection with the Universal Life flowing in every cellof the living organism and in every particle or wave of the universe. In total

attention, the body-brain complex loses its particular individual structure andflows in wave-like mode in boundless space of being, knowing and bliss.

In total attention, there is no focus, no movement, no volition, no self-talk,

no seeking, no centre, no periphery, no choice, no preference, no like, nodislike, no contradiction, no resistance, no contraction, no becoming. It is

undifferentiated awareness, wordless witnessing, and immediate knowing.

Total attention is the state ofMeditation, which is a mirror in and through

which the Universal Life sees Itself in the space of the silent, empty, relaxed,attentive mind, also called the mindless space. The Universal Life sees Itself

not as an object of experience but as the Enlightening Awareness or theLight of Knowing, revealing everything else through experiencing. This

connection of the Universal Life with Itself through meditative attention hasbeen called YOGA.

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Koosraj KORA VENCIAH 26.11.2010