The Practice of Bare Attention

In the beginning, it takes an effort we have to cultivate to develop that quality. But as we practise day after day after day, practising this quality of awareness, it gets easier and easier until it starts working by itself. And then there's no effort required to be aware. It has become fully integrated into into our consciousness. The cultivation of bare attention has very much to do with the quality of listening. I listening to what's happeningperhaps some of you have sometimes sat by the side of a river ein began to listen to the sound of the river. At first it is one big rush of a sound, rit one, one big sound that we're hearing. But slowly