Attention, non-duality and ‘isness’

Attention mediates much of our orientation to the world, parsing reality into what is salient and relevant, and into what is irrelevant and ignorable. It can also become parasitised by addiction and illusion, experiences whereby our attention enters a maladaptive conformity with reality. Inquiring into attention, which entails a recursive process of mind turning in on mind and representing itself, takes one into confrontation with the patterns of the psyche. Confrontation, however, assumes a dualistic frame where there is ‘someone’ who is confronting ‘something’. Dropping such dualistic notions through inquiry into attention and what 'is', whilst perhaps intuitively strange and maybe even scary, can facilitate the phenomena of what I try to explain as “non dual attention”. I attempt to connect this form of attention to a discussion regarding the basic ‘isness’ of reality to help perhaps create a useful set of conceptual pointers for the listener. Hope ya enjoy! #consciousness #attention #spirituality #philosophy #nonduality #meditation #psychedelic #psychology #mysticism