Similar to a flashlight beam, attention is like the light of knowing emanating from its source, awareness, to the known object. We can trace a flashlight beam either towards an object or back to the bulb, and we can follow our attention either out towards experience or inwards towards awareness from which it arises. Once attention has come back to awareness, there’s nothing more to do. Tracing attention back to its source is the ‘Direct Path’. When back to our self, there’s no more path. We might call this the ‘Pathless Path’. We have three possibilities: attention going towards experience, the Direct Path, and the Pathless Path. Rather than the first path during formal meditation period, I recommend either the Direct or Pathless Path. Each time we disengage from experience content and gently come back to our self, we weaken experience’s attraction. When we come home, we have what we deeply desire.
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