Level Flight: Part 2 - Attention
Michael Turner
Level Flight: Part 2 – Attention
- by Michael Turner
Dear Friends:
Accept for a moment the premise that – underlying everything – you are
soul: an eternal, golden particle of conscious love.
Now I want to ask you: Where is your attention?
Many people get caught up in theories of different planes of
existence, and bodies of awareness – i.e., astral, causal, mental,
spiritual, etc.
But if you want to develop soul awareness, and God awareness, and
attain spiritual freedom, it is really much simpler than that.
Where is your attention?
Is it focused on emotions? Are you feeling emotional?
Is it focused on memories? Are you remembering or (combing two points
of focus) reacting emotionally to a memory?
Is it focused on habits? Are you involved in habitual ways of though,
feeling and/or action?
Is it focused on ideas and theories? Are you thinking about
something, mulling over an idea, pondering a premise?
Is it focused on your subconscious? Are you being driven by
subconscious desires?
If your attention is anywhere in these foci, it is still within the
realm of duality. It is still operating from some degree of a binary
impulse, which is of its very nature a temporal, non-eternal point of
focus. So long as there is even the slightest hint of polarity, even
in the most rarified realms of thought, or the deepest recesses of
your subconscious, your attention is focused upon that which is, by
its very nature, non-eternal.
On the other hand (and yes, I realize this is a somewhat binary way of
expressing things, but such is the way of human language), if your
attention is focused upon soul, it is focused upon that which is
eternal. For soul is a particle of the Eternal.
This is the goal of all who have taught and practiced the ancient
teachings of meditating on the Shabda: bringing our attention back to
soul and God, and in doing so offering us the blessing of spiritual
freedom in this lifetime.
We will delve deeper and deeper into Shabda Meditation as we
progress. But for now, I would like you to focus upon this simple
exercise: “Where is my attention?” Keep a notebook and gently,
lovingly, pay attention to where your attention is.
More soon.
In the name of my blessed Master, Dap Ren,
And in the LightSong of the Eternal,
Baraka Bashad!
Michael Turner
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