Organics

<p><strong><u>Bare Attention</u></strong><u>:</u> If in ordinary life mindfulness or attention is directed to any object it is rarely sustained long enough for the purpose of <strong><u>FACTUAL</u></strong><u> </u><strong><u>OBSERVATION</u></strong><u>.</u></p><p>By Bare Attention we understand the clear and single-minded awareness of what actually happens <strong>to</strong> us and <strong>in</strong> us at the successive moments of perception. It is called Bare because it attends to the bare facts of a perception without reacting to them by deed speech or mental comment. Ordinarily the purely receptive state of mind is as we have remarked just a brief phase of the thought process of which one is often scarcely aware. But in the methodical development of mindfulness aiming at the unfolding of its latent powers Bare Attention is sustained for as long a time as one's strength of concentration permits.</p><p></p>