Awareness Versus Mind-Based Attention

When being guided in meditation, is one engaging with pure awareness itself or with mind-based attention? Rupert says: ‘Awareness, or consciousness, is the knowing element in the mind. You could say the finite mind is a mixture of consciousness plus thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions. So when it is said the mind knows such and such, consciousness is the knowing element in the mind. Attention is just the directing or the focusing of awareness. The awareness with which your dog or your cat feels pain is the exact same awareness with which you and I are aware of our experience. There’s just one kind of awareness, and it’s always in the same condition.’

From event 06 June - 13 July, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 6–13 June 2025

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