
Ep. 122 - Essential Buddhism Part 1: Developing Our Field of Awareness
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Zen Meditation - The Quality of Bare Attention
In ssuki roshi's book, zen min bein his mind, he said that the purpose of studying buddhism is not to study buddhism at all, but to study oneself through the quality of bare attention. That is, paying attention to what is happening without judging and without commenting, and without evaluating,. And without choosing and without discriminating. The old pond te frog jumps in, plop. That's fair attention. When this quality of mind is wel developed, when it's well cultivated, it effects very many changes in our way of living. But how to do it? By cultivating bare attention, simply sitting back and observing what it is that's happening in
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