Paying Attention to Awareness May Require Effort Initially

A man asks a question about the effort required to pay attention to awareness rather than activity, like noises that arise within awareness. Rupert suggests that if it feels like effort is needed to pay attention to awareness instead of the content of experience, make the effort. It will get easier. He adds that turning our attention away from experience is an initial step – Via Negativa – which is transcendent. However, all experience is pervaded by being, is immanent, which entails turning back again to experience and seeing it all as one. Experience is pervaded by the knowing of it, by being itself.

From event 18 - 25 March, 2022 Seven Day Retreat at Mercy Center, CA – 18th to 25th March

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