Presence and Attention

Presence and Attention

For a moment step back to that one retreat where you danced

The Form

for the first time. 

How mind blowing is that,

how heart opening was that

how profound was that,

how mysterious was that

as you moved around the chair of another

sitting down with such presence, 

such attention not outside,

but within!

And yet didn't the presence within

as your attention were drawn in,

didn't that change how things appear? 

It changed how one knew oneself,

it changed this idea of linear perception,

it changed this idea of here and there

because everything is now and here, 

there is no there! 

It changed all our ideas. 

The mind did not project into manifestation 

because awareness or it's in

attention inside, whatever that is, 

if there even is an in,

within attention brought within, manifestation,

changed vibration,

changed life,

changed knowing,

became timeless,

became full,

became clear.

When you practised

The Form

in those times each day come upon how

your awareness, your attention entered 

the unknown you.

the unseen you,

the one that has not appeared. 

How fresh, then,

from that placeless place was appearance?

Was it not alive?

Was it not Joyful? 

Was it not brilliant?

Was it not in depth

communing with itself as

all that appeared?

From Sunday Satsang

'See Life as a Mystery'

6th April

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