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Bare Attention
Practicing “bare attention,” you learn to not add your interpretation to the experience of sound arising and passing.
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Date of talk: February 19, 2006
Length: 33 minutes
Sounds arise and pass. What is it like when we don’t add to the experience of sound? Can we simply know the experience as hearing without adding our interpretation of it, such as “squeaky chair” or “automobile”? Staying with the sound is an experience in itself.
Phillip Moffitt
At the peak of his career, former CEO and Editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt, traded in his worldly aspirations to explore the inner life. He subsequently founded the Life Balance Institute and now teaches vipassana meditation with an emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Phillip is a co-guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the author of Dancing with Life.
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