In Presence

An attention space is established by calling your attention. I call it ‘your’ attention but really it is that part of the universal attention that you can access as ‘yours’. To call it, you must be here and now. No past. No future. No elsewhere.

Your attention has been left in many places, on many things you care about, your job, friends, money, and possessions. If you are present, all these bits of attention will come back to you from where you unconsciously left them. If not, you may have to go and collect them. Try asking them to come home, at least for the time you are doing this work. They can always go back to your worries and obsessions later.

Attention has a strong attraction to itself. It accumulates and strengthens. It is self-magnetized.

To pull the plug on you as thinker, attention attends to sensations and especially breathing. Thoughts arise and fall away. Attention does not follow them, which would form the thinker. Attention is directly on sensing, not funneled through thinking.

There is a special benefit to this process. Attention directly on sensation transforms the energy of sensation into the energy of consciousness. The singular becomes the multiple, the linear becomes the simultaneous. You can know this transition as it occurs.