Open Awareness Techniques / contrast with shikantaza

Open awareness is still applying a method once you're in the resulta, it's kind of like o youe set yourself on a trajectory of some sort. With this method, you area intending that if the gap arises between thoughts, narrative, stuff going on in my mind, i intend, in that moment to allow that, to continue, to maintain it. That is not quite the same as effortless and unintentional dropping everything. So that's a little different there as well. We're not focusing on the breath. Eventually you may have the breath as quite a support there, but the intention is always that you will eventually just let go of that. You're moving away from having any