The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind: v.ution by Wallace Ph.D. B. Alan

Author:Wallace Ph.D., B. Alan
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780861719907
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2006-04-10T03:00:00+00:00

When the body and mind are in a state of imbalance, we feel uncomfortable. This is a good thing, otherwise we wouldn’t do anything to remedy the problem. All too often, though, instead of seeking a cure, we look for quick fixes to suppress the symptoms. The path of shamatha leads to increasing mental balance, and we may experience that as physical and mental well-being. As the dust of the mind settles, you may discover an unprecedented degree of lucidity of awareness. Moreover, as the deeply ingrained habit of conceptual grasping subsides, you may begin to experience physical objects in a different way. Normally, the mind involuntarily superimposes a sense of solidity on our perceptions of visual objects, even though the eyes are not designed to detect this tactile characteristic. As the conceptual mind calms down, you will see more clearly what the Buddha meant when he said, “In the seen there is only the seen.” Visual objects are seen simply as visual objects, without the overlay of past experiences of substantiality. Sensory objects take on a quality of transparency, as mere appearances to the mind, rather than solid objects “out there.” Even your own body appears “empty” of substance. All that appears to the mind is an interrelated matrix of sensory phenomena, but these qualities no longer appear to belong to something absolutely objective, for that sense of reified duality is diminishing.

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