The Equivalence of Love and Attention

To pay attention is to love. To love is to pay attention. That's what we discover at this first level, as we sit down with our back straight and try to say the mantra. And within seconds, we find ourselves thinking about our problems,. Our shopping list, our businesses; our minds clearly are in a very untidy, untamed wayward state of distraction. This is true even for people who professionally may have great powers of concentration or skills that allow them to focus on certain technical things. It's there that we begin to realize developing our capacity for attention, which is what makes us human, takes time.