The power of Attention and Intention is remarkable.
(This was goes to be my Christmas gift to the forum, but I got a little tied up. Better late then never.)
Had a synchronicity with a Deer friend of mine today saying a permutation of this phrase and very powerful concept.
Have heard Andrew say something similar to this verse:
“When emptiness is possible,
Everything is possible;
Were emptiness impossible,
Nothing would be possible.”
So this theme made me wonder:
If you put your attention on an emotion or thought, there is a sort of energy that flows there, and often causes the emotions and thoughts to amplify or anchor themselves. Not dissimilar to way water will cause seeds in a garden to burst to life.
So following this logic, when one places their attention on awareness itself, what type of energy is exchanged?
What happens when you amplify or anchor attention or awareness to itself?
"Excerpts from Nagarjuna’s Verses from the Center
Space
No trace of space
Is there before
The absence of obstruction
Which describes it.
With no obstruction,
How can there be
Absence of obstruction?
Who distinguishes between them?
Space is not obstruction
Or an absence of it,
Nor is it a description
Or something to describe.
Fluidity and heat,
Energy and gravity
Are just like space.
In seeing things
To be or not to be
Fools fail to see
A world at ease.
Time
If I had a past,
What is now and yet to come
Would have already happened.
Were there no now and future then,
How could now and future
Ever have a past?
Without a past
There is no now and future;
What is now and still to come
Would never happen.
Past, present, future
Are like bottom, middle, top
And one, two, three.
You can’t grasp time
And times you can
Are never time itself.
Why configure time you cannot grasp?
If time depends on things,
How could I ever have
Time apart from things?
Without things how could time persist?
Self
Were mind and matter me,
I would come and go like them.
If I were something else,
They would say nothing about me.
What is mine
When there is no me?
Were self-centeredness eased,
I would not think of me and mine –
There would be no one there
To think them.
What is inside is me,
What is outside is mine –
When these thoughts end,
Compulsion stops,
Repetition ceases,
Freedom dawns.
