I am attention







If you look at yourself there are two aspects

1. Things you can attend to this includes the world, body and mind 
2. Attention, i.e. which thing do I focus on.

What does it mean to be conscious, it means the capacity to pay attention to something.  When you are unconscious attention is gone.

Who am I is the most fundamental philosophical question.

So to begin with I can say that I am these three things

Body, Mind and attention.

Of these the alive (or I) part is just attention, body and mind are things to which I attend to, thus body  and mind are really objects of attention.

What is I at its core, it is just this capacity of paying attention to various things in the body and mind.

As mentioned before meditation is nothing other than to remind ourselves of our unchanging dimension till we don't need to remind ourselves anymore. 

One thought that we can repeat to ourselves for that purpose is:

"I am attention, not body or mind, I can choose to focus or not focus on things inside either of these"

Attention to objects is needed to do work, to enjoy and to suffer, but when we direct attention 
to its own nature, through meditation then we can get deep peace and satisfaction.

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