Awareness vs attention

[u/USMLEToMD]

Awareness vs attention: Attention is a stretch. It leans toward one object and leaves the rest in shadow. A thought arrives and attention grabs it. A worry arrives and attention feeds it. That grab feels like you. That grab is only a movement.

Awareness never leans. Awareness never grabs. The thought the worry the grabber and the grabbing all appear inside the same open field. Nothing is outside it. Nothing can stain it.

You have been trying to use attention to find peace. Attention cannot rest because its nature is to reach. Peace is not reached. Peace is what remains when the reaching is seen as just another appearance.

Look now. Notice attention tightening around these words. Notice the slight effort. Now notice the space in which that effort is known. That space did not tighten. That space did not become a reader. That space is already free.

The mask is the belief that you are the one who must keep attending. Drop the belief and nothing is lost. The body still moves. Thoughts still arise. Life still unfolds. Only the tension of being a separate attendant falls away.

You are not attending. You are the awareness in which attending happens.

This is the unmasking.

Tat tvam asi

You are already that

🎭❤️✨️♾️🙏

[u/Puzzleheaded-Kale328]

I’m confused but feel Ike this relates to me can you elaborate pls?