In Presence

I breathe in and out. Breathing brings the outside in and the inside out. Attending to this, outer merges with inner, one space, making the two, one.

There is no division in this one space, an attention-space. No boundaries. The phenomena in the attention-space are not limited.

I ask: where does attention come from? From my brain? Is it mine? This is a difficult but rewarding inquiry. I discover that there is attention mediated by my thinking. And there is attention that rests directly on sensation and feeling. Can attention attend to itself? I find that it can. This is a wordless state. It requires only that I allow it.

The more I study attention, the more it seems to exist apart from me. I live within a field of attention. I can sense/feel the attention of others, animals, connected to me in this field. I am a participant in attention which moves me, informs me. It is a bridge to my experience, uniting me to my world. The medium of my being.

In the one space, the attention-space, prayer is engagement.

There is something else…the power of intending. The power to wish. Intention is thought. Intending is will. In the attention-space, intending is an act with consequence. In the attention-space, what I wish for exists as me. I am united with the action and the consequence.